πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 2 rows with 3 seats in each row. 3 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2Tickets to the zoo cost $6 for a grown-up and $2 for a kid. A group buys 2 grown-up tickets and 4 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3A bakery makes 3 trays of muffins with 3 muffins on each tray. It sells 4 muffins in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4Tickets to the zoo cost $12 for a grown-up and $9 for a kid. A group buys 2 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Jamal has 12 stickers and buys 3 packs with 5 stickers in each pack. Jamal shares all the stickers equally among 3 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
6A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 7 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
7A library has 116 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 17 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
8Tickets to the zoo cost $7 for a grown-up and $3 for a kid. A group buys 2 grown-up tickets and 5 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9A farm collects 156 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 8 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
10Theo saves $7 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $7 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Theo have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11A bakery makes 2 trays of muffins with 4 muffins on each tray. It sells 3 muffins in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
12A bakery makes 2 trays of muffins with 9 muffins on each tray. It sells 6 muffins in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 3 seats
- 2. 20 dollars
- 3. 2 muffins
- 4. 51 dollars
- 5. 9 stickers
- 6. 11 pencils
- 7. 115 books
- 8. 29 dollars
- 9. 5 cartons
- 10. 28 dollars
- 11. 3 muffins
- 12. 9 muffins
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