πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Tickets to the zoo cost $6 for a grown-up and $2 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 2 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
2A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 9 pencils in each box. It gives 7 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
3Ana's book has 29 pages. Ana reads 2 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
4Ben saves $2 each week for 4 weeks, then spends $3 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Ben have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5A farm collects 168 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
6Leo saves $7 each week for 2 weeks, then spends $6 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Leo have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 2 muffins on each tray. It sells 3 muffins in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
8A bakery makes 2 trays of muffins with 8 muffins on each tray. It sells 8 muffins in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
9Lily has 19 stickers and buys 3 packs with 2 stickers in each pack. Lily shares all the stickers equally among 5 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10A theater has 3 rows with 3 seats in each row. 2 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
11A library has 150 books. It gets 2 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 88 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12A library has 194 books. It gets 3 boxes of new books with 9 books in each box. Then it lends out 82 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 34 dollars
- 2. 10 pencils
- 3. 21 pages
- 4. 5 dollars
- 5. 4 cartons
- 6. 8 dollars
- 7. 3 muffins
- 8. 6 muffins
- 9. 5 stickers
- 10. 7 seats
- 11. 70 books
- 12. 139 books
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