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1
A van carries 12 boxes. 18 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 6 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
2
A van carries 16 boxes. 12 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
3
A van carries 22 boxes. 6 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
4
A van carries -8 boxes. 14 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 2 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
5
A van carries 0 boxes. 20 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
6
A van carries -2 boxes. 18 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 4 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
7
A van carries 11 boxes. 9 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
8
A van carries 17 boxes. 7 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
9
A van carries -5 boxes. 20 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
10
A van carries -7 boxes. 13 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 2 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
11
A van carries 11 boxes. 17 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
12
A van carries 2 boxes. 18 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
13
A van carries 26 boxes. 6 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
14
A van carries 26 boxes. 9 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
15
A van carries 14 boxes. 4 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 6 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
16
A van carries 1 boxes. 19 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
17
A van carries -8 boxes. 17 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
18
A van carries 15 boxes. 13 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
19
A van carries 5 boxes. 10 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
20
A van carries 17 boxes. 7 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 38.
Every problem in it will take two steps.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 94% of the problems: the 4 boxes loaded later were never added in.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 183 different ones, 76% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.