πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 8 pencils in each box. It gives 5 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Lily saves $4 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $8 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Lily have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 7 muffins on each tray. It sells 4 muffins in the morning and 22 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4Tickets to the zoo cost $15 for a grown-up and $9 for a kid. A group buys 4 grown-up tickets and 5 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5A library has 36 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 62 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
6A farm collects 144 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 4 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
7Jamal's book has 36 pages. Jamal reads 7 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8Omar has 9 stickers and buys 5 packs with 3 stickers in each pack. Omar shares all the stickers equally among 4 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
9A library has 174 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 7 books in each box. Then it lends out 66 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
10Tickets to the zoo cost $8 for a grown-up and $2 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11A library has 112 books. It gets 2 boxes of new books with 9 books in each box. Then it lends out 34 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12Theo's book has 59 pages. Theo reads 3 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 4 pencils
- 2. 12 dollars
- 3. 2 muffins
- 4. 105 dollars
- 5. 6 books
- 6. 8 cartons
- 7. 22 pages
- 8. 6 stickers
- 9. 136 books
- 10. 46 dollars
- 11. 96 books
- 12. 53 pages
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