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 2 pencils to each of 3 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Leo's book has 41 pages. Leo reads 9 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
3Jamal has 6 stickers and buys 3 packs with 3 stickers in each pack. Jamal shares all the stickers equally among 5 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
4Tickets to the zoo cost $10 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
5Jamal saves $4 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $7 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Jamal have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Nora saves $9 each week for 2 weeks, then spends $3 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Nora have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 6 muffins on each tray. It sells 5 muffins in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
8A theater has 6 rows with 4 seats in each row. 9 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
9A library has 66 books. It gets 5 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 80 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
10Ana's book has 79 pages. Ana reads 8 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11Jamal's book has 57 pages. Jamal reads 4 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
12Tickets to the zoo cost $13 for a grown-up and $11 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 2 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 18 pencils
- 2. 23 pages
- 3. 3 stickers
- 4. 28 dollars
- 5. 5 dollars
- 6. 15 dollars
- 7. 22 muffins
- 8. 15 seats
- 9. 26 books
- 10. 55 pages
- 11. 41 pages
- 12. 87 dollars
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