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Hi there! I am Studyfin, your math buddy. Today, we will learn how to solve word problems with more than one step!
Sometimes, a math story has a hidden question you must answer first. To solve these, we need to use our four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Let us model how to find the hidden step. Imagine you have a bag of 10 red marbles and 5 blue marbles. If you share them equally among 3 friends, you first need to add to find the total marbles.
Once you know the total is 15 marbles, you can do the second step. You divide the 15 marbles by 3 to see how many marbles each friend gets.
Leo bought 4 packs of juice boxes. Each pack has 6 juice boxes. He and his friends drank 9 juice boxes. How many juice boxes are left?
- Find the total number of juice boxes Leo bought. Multiply 4 packs by 6 juice boxes: 4 x 6 = 24 juice boxes.
- Identify the second action in the story. Leo and his friends drank 9 juice boxes, which means we subtract.
- Subtract the juice boxes drank from the total: 24 - 9 = 15 juice boxes.
- Check your answer. 15 left plus 9 drank equals 24 total juice boxes. It matches!