Grade 5 Math Practice Test: Multi-Step Word Problems
- Multi-Step Word Problems
- 10 questions
- 15 minutes
Each problem in this test needs two or more steps with whole numbers, decimals or money. Tip: write down what each step finds before you start the next one.
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Question 1
A school buys 12 packs of crayons for $3.50 each and 5 boxes of chalk for $2.25 each. What is the total cost?
Correct answer: B
Crayons: 12 × $3.50 = $42.00. Chalk: 5 × $2.25 = $11.25. Total: $42.00 + $11.25 = $53.25. $42.00 is only the crayons.
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Question 2
Maria has $50. She buys 3 books that cost $8.95 each. How much money does she have left?
Correct answer: A
3 × $8.95 = $26.85, and $50.00 − $26.85 = $23.15. $41.05 subtracts the price of only one book, and $26.85 is the amount spent.
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Question 3
168 students eat lunch at tables that seat 8 students each. 9 tables are already full. How many more tables are needed so that every student has a seat?
Correct answer: D
168 ÷ 8 = 21 tables in all. 9 are already full, so 21 − 9 = 12 more tables are needed. 21 is the total, not the number still needed.
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Question 4
A theater has 25 rows with 32 seats in each row. 618 tickets are sold for one show, one ticket per seat. How many seats are empty?
Correct answer: D
25 × 32 = 800 seats, and 800 − 618 = 182 empty seats. 192 comes from a subtraction mistake when regrouping.
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Question 5
A car travels 58.5 miles each hour for 4 hours. Then it travels 32 more miles. How far does it travel in all?
Correct answer: B
58.5 × 4 = 234 miles, and 234 + 32 = 266 miles. 234 miles leaves out the last 32 miles.
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Question 6
Tom saves $6.25 every week. What is the least number of weeks he needs to save to have at least $55?
Correct answer: C
After 8 weeks he has 8 × $6.25 = $50, which is not enough. After 9 weeks he has $56.25, which is at least $55.
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Question 7
A farm packs 1,350 eggs into cartons that hold 12 eggs each. Only full cartons are sold. How many full cartons are there, and how many eggs are left over?
Correct answer: A
1,350 ÷ 12 = 112 with a remainder of 6, because 112 × 12 = 1,344 and 1,350 − 1,344 = 6. 111 cartons with 18 left over is wrong because 18 eggs fill another carton.
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Question 8
A rectangular garden is 12.5 meters long and 8 meters wide. Fencing costs $4 per meter. How much does it cost to put fencing around the whole garden?
Correct answer: C
The perimeter is 2 × (12.5 + 8) = 41 meters, and 41 × $4 = $164. $400 uses the area (100 square meters) instead of the perimeter.
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Question 9
Jen ran 2.4 km on Monday. On Tuesday she ran twice as far as on Monday. On Wednesday she ran 1.5 km less than on Tuesday. How far did she run in the three days?
Correct answer: C
Tuesday: 2 × 2.4 = 4.8 km. Wednesday: 4.8 − 1.5 = 3.3 km. Total: 2.4 + 4.8 + 3.3 = 10.5 km. 8.7 km adds the 1.5 km instead of finding Wednesday's distance.
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Question 10
Four friends buy a pizza for $13.60 and drinks for $4.80. They split the total cost equally. How much does each friend pay?
Correct answer: D
Total: $13.60 + $4.80 = $18.40, and $18.40 ÷ 4 = $4.60. $3.40 is only each person's share of the pizza.
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