Practice: Multi-Step Word Problems

Grade 3 Mathematics

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Directions: Read each problem carefully. Show all your work in the space provided. Write your final answer on the line. Remember to check if your answer makes sense!

Part A: One-Step Problems (Warm-Up)

1 There are 7 baskets of apples. Each basket has 8 apples. How many apples are there in all?
Show your work:
apples
2 A farmer has 54 carrots. He puts them into bags with 6 carrots in each bag. How many bags does he fill?
Show your work:
bags

Part B: Two-Step Problems

3 A toy store has 5 shelves of action figures. Each shelf has 9 action figures. The store sells 17 action figures on Monday. How many action figures are left?
Show your work:
action figures
4 Sam has 28 stickers. His sister has 36 stickers. They combine their stickers and share them equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Show your work:
stickers
5 A bakery bakes 48 cookies in the morning and 36 cookies in the afternoon. They put the cookies into boxes of 12. How many boxes do they fill?
Show your work:
boxes
6 Mrs. Lopez buys 4 packages of pencils. Each package has 10 pencils. She gives 2 pencils to each of her 12 students. How many pencils does she have left?
Show your work:
pencils

Part B: Two-Step Problems (continued)

7 A library has 72 new books. The librarian puts 8 books on each shelf. Then she adds 15 more books to one shelf. How many books are on that shelf now?
Show your work:
books
8 There are 6 teams in a soccer league. Each team has 11 players. During the season, 9 players leave the league. How many players are in the league now?
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players
9 Emma earned $36 babysitting on Saturday and $28 on Sunday. She wants to buy books that cost $8 each. How many books can she buy?
Show your work:
books
10 A parking lot has 8 rows of cars. Each row has 9 cars. During lunch, 25 cars leave. How many cars are still in the parking lot?
Show your work:
cars

Part C: Challenge Problems

11 Alex has 3 boxes of crayons with 12 crayons each. He breaks 4 crayons. Then he buys 2 more boxes of 12 crayons. How many working crayons does Alex have now?
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crayons
12 A school buys 96 juice boxes for a party. They share them equally among 8 tables. Each table gives away 3 juice boxes to teachers. How many juice boxes are left at each table?
Show your work:
juice boxes