Multi Step Division Word Problems

Ms. Fuller was traveling to Austin, Texas. It took her 3 days of driving to get there. On Friday she drove 243 miles, on Saturday she drove 275 miles, and on Sunday she drove 167 miles. How many miles is it to Austin?

• 600
• 685
• 785
• 715

Tags

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

Boxes of muffins have 3 rows with 3 muffins in each row. Mrs. Samson needs 45 muffins for the open house. How many boxes of muffins should she buy?

• 6 boxes
• 45 boxes
• 9 boxes
• 5 boxes

Jared made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. If he spent thirty-nine dollars buying new mower blades, how many seven dollar games could he buy with the money he had left?

• 21 games
• 3 games
• 7 games
• 99 games

Tags

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Natalie picked thirteen flowers for her friend’s wedding. She was making bouquets with four flowers in each one. If five of the flowers wilted before the wedding, how many bouquets could she still make?

• 9 bouquets
• 5 bouquets
• 2 bouquets
• 3 bouquets

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

The cafeteria had fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-one to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes five apples, how many pies could they make?

• 51 pies
• 41 pies
• 10 pies
• 2 pies

Tags

CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Jacob was selling his old games. He started out with sixty-eight but sold four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?

• 9 boxes
• 10 boxes
• 7 boxes
• 8 boxes

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

A store had thirty-eight coloring books in stock. They ended up putting them on sale and getting rid of twenty-eight of them. They put the ones they still had onto shelves with two on each shelf. How many shelves did they use?

• 5 shelves
• 6 shelves
• 7 shelves
• 8 shelves

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

CCSS.3.OA.C.7

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Nathaniel has 5 packages of baseball cards. There are 8 cards in each package. He will open the packages then split the cards into 2 equal groups. How many baseball cards will be in each group?

• 18 cards in each group
• 40 cards
• 20 cards in each group
• none of the above

There are 3 goats in Ms. Garza's barn. There are 3 times as many pigs as goats. There are 3 times as many chickens as pigs. Which statement is true?

• There are 6 pigs in the barn. 
• There are 27 chickens in the barn.
• There are 18 pigs in the barn.
• There are 9 chickens in the barn. 

A teacher gave each of 7 students in a math group 4 multiplication and 5 division problems to solve before recess. If all of the students solved all of the problems, what is the total number of problems the students solved?

• 72
• 56
• 79
• 63