πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 3 rows with 4 seats in each row. 8 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2Ben has 4 stickers and buys 4 packs with 4 stickers in each pack. Ben shares all the stickers equally among 4 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
3A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 5 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
4A library has 29 books. It gets 3 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 37 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5A library has 154 books. It gets 3 boxes of new books with 6 books in each box. Then it lends out 30 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
6A library has 184 books. It gets 2 boxes of new books with 5 books in each box. Then it lends out 69 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
7A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 8 muffins on each tray. It sells 4 muffins in the morning and 20 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
8Tickets to the zoo cost $12 for a grown-up and $10 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 2 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9A bakery makes 3 trays of muffins with 7 muffins on each tray. It sells 8 muffins in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10Sam's book has 46 pages. Sam reads 2 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11Zoe's book has 58 pages. Zoe reads 7 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
12A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 5 muffins on each tray. It sells 2 muffins in the morning and 8 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 4 seats
- 2. 5 stickers
- 3. 7 pencils
- 4. 4 books
- 5. 142 books
- 6. 125 books
- 7. 8 muffins
- 8. 80 dollars
- 9. 11 muffins
- 10. 40 pages
- 11. 37 pages
- 12. 15 muffins
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