Two Step Operations Practice Packet
Two-Step Word Problems
Practice Packet • Mixed Operations
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Directions: Solve each two-step word problem. Show all calculations clearly in the workspace provided and write your final solution with units on the answer line.
- Maya collected 148 seashells on Saturday and 127 seashells on Sunday. She gave 65 shells to her science teacher for a classroom project. How many seashells does Maya have left?
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- A school cafeteria baked 8 batches of blueberry muffins with 12 muffins in each batch. They also had 15 bran muffins left over from breakfast. How many total muffins does the cafeteria have?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 3–4
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- Marcus purchased 6 packages of mechanical pencils. Each package contained 8 pencils. After distributing pencils to his study group, he had 9 pencils remaining. How many pencils did Marcus give away?
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- A librarian had 72 graphic novels to arrange evenly across 8 display shelves. Later that afternoon, she placed 5 new arrival titles onto the top shelf. How many graphic novels are now on the top shelf?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 5–6
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- An orchard harvested 96 crisp apples and sorted them equally into 6 wooden crates. A customer purchased 7 apples out of the first crate. How many apples remained in that crate?
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- Elena saved $85 for art supplies. She bought a desktop easel for $37 and spent the remaining money equally on 6 identical sketchbooks. What was the price of each sketchbook?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 7–8
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- Jackson collected 34 aluminum cans for the community recycling drive, and his sister collected 46 cans. They placed all their cans equally into 8 recycling containers. How many cans went into each container?
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- An animal sanctuary stored 45 bags of premium dog food. During the morning shift, animal caretakers used 17 bags. The remaining bags weighed 4 pounds each. What was the total weight of the remaining dog food?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 9–10
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- A cinema hall contains 7 rows of permanent auditorium seats with 14 seats in each row. For an evening premiere, staff set up 18 folding chairs along the back row. What is the total seating capacity for the premiere?
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- A community gardener planted 9 rows of heirloom tomato seedlings with 15 plants in each row. A severe hail storm damaged 28 of the plants beyond recovery. How many tomato plants survived?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 11–12
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- A distribution warehouse packed 120 jars of wildflower honey evenly into 10 identical shipping cartons. A local market ordered 4 of those cartons. How many jars of honey did the market receive?
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- A school kitchen started Monday morning with 250 milk cartons in stock. A supplier delivered 175 fresh cartons before lunchtime. During lunch periods, students took 318 cartons. How many milk cartons were left?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 13–14
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- Liam purchased 5 booster packs of trading cards with 18 cards in each pack. He decided to combine all the cards and divide them equally among himself and his 2 siblings. How many trading cards did each person receive?
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- A manufacturing plant built 144 solar emergency radios and packed them evenly into 12 delivery boxes. A quality technician added 3 inspection manuals into each box. What was the total count of items packed inside each box?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 15–16
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- Sofia had a spool of decorative craft ribbon measuring 150 centimeters. She snipped off 38 centimeters to wrap a parcel. She then cut the remaining length of ribbon into 8 equal pieces for bookmarks. How long was each bookmark piece?
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- A youth leadership group planned a museum tour. There were 23 students signed up from the morning session and 19 students from the afternoon session. If each admission ticket costs $9, what was the total cost for all student tickets?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 17–18
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- A campus bookstore received 8 cartons of spiral notebooks with 25 notebooks in each carton. By the conclusion of the back-to-school fair, 134 notebooks were sold. How many spiral notebooks remained in inventory?
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- Botanists collected 84 biological field samples and separated them equally into 7 laboratory trays. A senior researcher took 5 samples out of tray 4 for immediate testing. How many samples were left in tray 4?
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Two-Step Word Problems | Problems 19–20
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- A florist prepared 54 crimson carnations and 66 white carnations for an event. She combined all of the flowers and split them evenly into 10 decorative centerpiece vases. How many carnations were in each centerpiece vase?
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- A carpenter is assembling 6 identical modular storage benches. Each storage bench requires 14 heavy-duty screws. He also uses 16 additional screws to fasten wall security straps. How many screws does the carpenter require in total?
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