πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm collects 132 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 5 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
2A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 9 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
3Ana's book has 46 pages. Ana reads 3 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
4Rosa saves $5 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $6 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Rosa have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5A library has 165 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 16 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
6A library has 23 books. It gets 5 boxes of new books with 9 books in each box. Then it lends out 33 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
7A farm collects 180 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 7 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8Lily's book has 24 pages. Lily reads 3 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
9Mei saves $9 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $8 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Mei have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Mei has 12 stickers and buys 5 packs with 4 stickers in each pack. Mei shares all the stickers equally among 4 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
11A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 7 pencils in each box. It gives 7 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
12A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 5 muffins on each tray. It sells 4 muffins in the morning and 15 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 6 cartons
- 2. 11 pencils
- 3. 37 pages
- 4. 9 dollars
- 5. 181 books
- 6. 35 books
- 7. 8 cartons
- 8. 12 pages
- 9. 37 dollars
- 10. 8 stickers
- 11. 7 pencils
- 12. 6 muffins
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