Two Step Word Problems

Maria invited 4 of her friends over for a water balloon fight in the backyard. At the start of the game, Maria gave each of her friends 2 water balloons and had one water balloon for herself. How many water balloons altogether?

Third grade is going on a field trip. There are 20 kids in each third grade class. There are 6 third grade classes. If 40 kids can fit on a bus. How many buses will they need for their field trip to the zoo?

Gina has 20 groups of 10 pencils. 137 are sharpened. How many dull pencils does Gina have?

Mr. Black had two dozen cupcakes. He gave Sean 5 cupcakes. How many cupcakes did he have left?

Luke has two ten dollar bills. His younger sister Leia has a five dollar bill. They combine their money to buy a gift for their father that costs $22. How much change will they receive?

Mrs. Lowe went grocery shopping. Her groceries cost $37.55. She had coupons worth $9.25. If she paid the clerk $40.00 for her groceries, how much change would she get?

Lisa made 8 apple muffins for the bake sale. Trevor made 6 banana muffins. They sold 5 muffins altogether. How many muffins were left?

Jill sold half of her comic books, and then bought 16 more. Now she has 36 comic books. How many did she have to start with?

Ann earned $3 an hour for babysitting and $4 an hour for gardening. If she worked 5 hours babysitting and 3 hours gardening. How much money will she have made in the week?

Matthew and his brother Shawn played swimming-pool-basketball. Each basket was worth 3 points. Matthew scored 9 points. Shawn scored 6 points. What is the total number of baskets made during this game?

Tracy won 40 bouncy balls at the carnival. She gave two to each of her friends. Then she had 8 left. How many friends did she give bouncy balls to?

Craig has a twenty dollar bill. He buys six squirt guns for $2 each. How much money did Craig have left?

Alex has 145 marbles. 33 marbles are green and 57 are blue. The rest of the marbles are red. How many red marbles does Alex have?

Monica had 6 markers. Her mother gave her 8 more markers. Monica had to throw away 5 of the markers. How many markers did Monica have then?

Mike has 4 quarters and 2 dimes for bus fare. The bus ride will take 25 minutes. If the bus ride costs $0.75, how much money will he have left?

Alex found 12 pennies on the playground. He spent 5 pennies. Then he found 3 more. How many pennies did Alex have then?

Dawn has 67 apples and Kim has 43 apples. They use 26 apples to make apple pie’s for their church bake sale. How many apple’s do they have left?

Jennifer has 1,209 baseball cards. Tom has 875 baseball cards. How many more baseball cards does Jennifer have?

Julie climbed 15 steps up to the giant slide. She climbed down 6 steps to talk to her friend. Then she climbed up 8 steps to get to the top. How many steps does the slide have?

Missy went to school at 8:00a.m. She was at school for 6 hours. Then she went to softball practice before going home. She got home at 6:00 p.m. How long was she at softball practice?

Tuesday’s temperature was a high of 88 degrees. If Wednesday’s high was 9 degrees more than Tuesday, what was Wednesday’s high?

There were 17 balls on the playground. 5 were soccer balls and 8 were basketballs. The rest were kickballs. How many kickballs were there?

Shannon and her husband, Bryan went shopping. They each bought 10 new shirts. Shannon returned 3 of her new shirts to the store. How many shirts do Shannon and Bryan have?

Kyle had 17 cookies and then he bought 25 more cookies. He wants to share them between himself and 6 friends. How many cookies will each friend get?

Erick had a pencil collection of 12 pencils. Erick bought some pencils to add to his collection. Now he has 24 pencils. How many pencils did he add?

Loren has 500 pieces of paper. She wants to place them into 10 equal groups. How many pieces of paper will be in each group?

On the nature walk, Lana saw 16 animals. She saw 5 squirrels, 4 woodpeckers, and some chipmunks. How many chipmunks did Lana see?

The price of bread was $1.29, but it increased by 8 cents. The price of a gallon of milk is $2.49. What was the new price of the bread?

Ben and D’angelo went fishing. They each caught 11 fish. For dinner, they each ate 2 fish. How many fish do Ben and D’angelo have now?