πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 6 rows with 3 seats in each row. 7 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A bakery makes 3 trays of muffins with 3 muffins on each tray. It sells 2 muffins in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
3A library has 181 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 3 books in each box. Then it lends out 100 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
4Lily's book has 53 pages. Lily reads 2 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
5Tickets to the zoo cost $7 for a grown-up and $5 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 6 muffins on each tray. It sells 2 muffins in the morning and 12 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
7A farm collects 132 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 9 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8A library has 51 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 2 books in each box. Then it lends out 46 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
9A farm collects 180 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
10Sam's book has 27 pages. Sam reads 2 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11Mei has 8 stickers and buys 3 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
12Ana saves $7 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $4 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Ana have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 11 seats
- 2. 5 muffins
- 3. 93 books
- 4. 47 pages
- 5. 50 dollars
- 6. 10 muffins
- 7. 2 cartons
- 8. 13 books
- 9. 5 cartons
- 10. 17 pages
- 11. 5 stickers
- 12. 17 dollars
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