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There are sixty-three book to put away total but a librarian takes forty-seven of them and leaves Mike with the rest. If he can fit two books on a shelf, how many shelves will he need? |  |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) | Emily picked fifty-six flowers for her friend’s wedding. She was making bouquets with four flowers in each one. If forty-eight of the flowers wilted before the wedding, how many bouquets could she still make? |  |  |  |  | 2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) | Oliver had fifty pieces of clothing to wash. He put twenty-three of them in one load, but decided to split the rest into nine equal loads. How many pieces of clothing could go in each of the small loads? |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) | Sarah had fifty-two files on her computer. She deleted twenty of them and put therest into folders with eight files in each one. How many folders did Sarah end up with? |  |  |  |  | 6.  \u003Cbr>7.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5) | Katie's team won their baseball game and scored forty-five points total. If Katie scored three of the points and everyone else scored seven points each, how many players were on her team? |  |  |  |  | 8.  \u003Cbr>9.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 6) | Carol was planting vegetables in her garden. She started with thirty-four seeds and planted six of them in the big garden and in each of her small gardens put four seeds each. How many small gardens did Carol have? |  |  |  |  | 10.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 7) | Frank was selling his old games. He started out with thirty-two but sold twenty-four of them. He packed the rest up putting four games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use? |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8) | For Halloween Gwen received fifty-five pieces of candy. She ate forty pieces then placed the rest into piles with three in each pile. How many piles could she make? |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 9) | Tiffany had fifty-six homework problems. She finished thirty-eight of them but still had six pages of problems to do. If each page has the same number of problems on it, how many problems are on each page? |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 10) | Edward had sixty-one dollars. If he spent twenty-one bucks on a new game, how many eight dollar toys could he buy with the money he had left? |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 1-10 |  | 90 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 |\n\nMath  \n[www.CommonCoreSheets.com](www.CommonCoreSheets.com)  \nTwo Step Problems  \nName: Answer Key  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>1) Mike is at the library helping put away books. There are sixty-three book to put away total but a librarian takes forty-seven of them and leaves Mike with the rest. If he can fit two books on a shelf, how many shelves will he need? |  |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  8 \u003Cbr>2. 2 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) | Emily picked fifty-six flowers for her friend’s wedding. She was making bouquets with four flowers in each one. If forty-eight of the flowers wilted before the wedding, how many bouquets could she still make? |  |  |  |  | 3.  3  4. 4 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) | Oliver had fifty pieces of clothing to wash. He put twenty-three of them in one load, but decided to split the rest into nine equal loads. How many pieces of clothing could go in each of the small loads? |  |  |  |  | 5.  6  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) | Sarah had fifty-two files on her computer. She deleted twenty of them and put therest into folders with eight files in each one. 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