πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Aiden's book has 21 pages. Aiden reads 7 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
2Nora's book has 35 pages. Nora reads 3 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
3A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 9 muffins on each tray. It sells 4 muffins in the morning and 6 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 3 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 8 pencils in each box. It gives 3 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
6Kai has 2 stickers and buys 3 packs with 2 stickers in each pack. Kai shares all the stickers equally among 4 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
7A theater has 4 rows with 5 seats in each row. 12 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8A library has 97 books. It gets 3 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 119 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
9A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 6 muffins on each tray. It sells 10 muffins in the morning and 9 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 9 muffins on each tray. It sells 10 muffins in the morning and 14 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
11A library has 173 books. It gets 5 boxes of new books with 9 books in each box. Then it lends out 88 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12Sam's book has 20 pages. Sam reads 2 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 7 pages
- 2. 29 pages
- 3. 26 muffins
- 4. 7 pencils
- 5. 9 pencils
- 6. 2 stickers
- 7. 8 seats
- 8. 2 books
- 9. 11 muffins
- 10. 12 muffins
- 11. 130 books
- 12. 14 pages
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