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Difficulty Stretch · Set irbc97

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1
A van carries 246 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 298 boxes. 10 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 7 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
3
A van carries 61 boxes. 5 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 2 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
4
A van carries 131 boxes. 5 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 4 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
5
A van carries 118 boxes. 18 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
6
A van carries 161 boxes. 15 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
7
A van carries -2 boxes. 14 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
8
A van carries 21 boxes. 19 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 4 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
9
A van carries 34 boxes. 2 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 4 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
10
A van carries 27 boxes. 9 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
11
A van carries 147 boxes. 3 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 3 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
12
A van carries 93 boxes. 11 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 8 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
13
A van carries 80 boxes. 10 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
14
A van carries 59 boxes. 13 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 2 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
15
A van carries 53 boxes. 12 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
16
A van carries 39 boxes. 9 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 4 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
17
A van carries 161 boxes. 13 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 6 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
18
A van carries 101 boxes. 14 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
19
A van carries 134 boxes. 6 more are loaded, then the load is split equally between 5 drops. How many boxes are in each drop?
20
A van carries 189 boxes. 19 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 385.
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 93% of the problems: the 7 boxes loaded later were never added in.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 235 different ones, 98% — 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.