Apple Orchard Multistep Story Problems

Pick, pack, and sell apples while solving problems that take more than one step.

Picking and packing

Solve each problem. Most of them take more than one step.

The Nguyen family picks 6 baskets of apples. Each basket holds 35 apples. They eat 18 apples at a picnic. How many apples are left?

apples

Workers pack 253 apples into bags. Each bag holds 8 apples. They fill as many bags as they can.

Number of full bags:
Apples left over:

Mia has $40. At the farm stand she buys 3 bags of apples for $7 each and one apple pie for $12. How much money does she have left?

The orchard store has 147 jars of applesauce to put away. Each shelf holds 9 jars. How many shelves are needed to store all of the jars?

shelves

The farm stand sells 128 caramel apples on Saturday. On Sunday it sells twice as many caramel apples as on Saturday. How many caramel apples does it sell on both days together?

caramel apples

Grandpa Ray has 6 crates with 48 apples in each crate. He shares all of the apples equally among 4 neighbors. How many apples does each neighbor get?

apples

What does the remainder mean?

Think about what the leftover amount means in each story.

Every story below uses 58 ÷ 6 = 9 R4. Sort each story by its answer.

Each story uses 100 ÷ 8. Which story has an answer of 13?

A. 100 apples are put into bags of 8. How many full bags are there?B. 100 apples are put into bags of 8. How many apples are left over?C. 100 apple trees need nets. Each net covers 8 trees. How many nets are needed to cover every tree?D. 8 friends share 100 apple chips equally. How many whole chips does each friend get?

Equations and checking

Choose the best answer or fill in the blank. Use scrap paper to show your work.

The orchard has 3 rows of pear trees with 46 trees in each row. It also has 5 rows of apple trees with 28 trees in each row. Which equation shows t, the total number of trees?

A. t = (3 + 5) × (46 + 28)B. t = 3 × 46 + 5 × 28C. t = 3 × 28 + 5 × 46D. t = 3 + 46 + 5 + 28

10.

Use the tree story above. How many trees are in the orchard?

t = trees

11.

A farm truck brings 6 loads of apples with 289 apples in each load. Then 512 more apples arrive. Kai says there are 2,246 apples in all. Round 289 and 512 to the nearest hundred to check. Which statement is correct?

A. Kai's answer is reasonable, because 6 × 300 + 500 = 2,300, which is close to 2,246.B. Kai's answer is not reasonable, because 6 × 300 + 500 = 1,300.C. Kai's answer is not reasonable, because 6 + 300 + 500 = 806.D. Kai's answer is reasonable, because 6 × 200 + 500 = 1,700.

12.

Ms. Lopez buys 5 jars of apple butter. Each jar costs the same amount, j dollars. She pays with a $50 bill and gets $15 back. The equation 5 × j = 50 − 15 shows this story. What is j?

j = $

13.

The bakers have 230 apples. Each apple pie uses 8 apples. They make as many whole pies as they can. Then they cut every pie into 6 slices. How many slices of pie do they have?

slices

14.

Write your own orchard story problem that takes two steps, uses multiplication and subtraction, and has an answer of 50. Write an equation for your story and solve it.