πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm collects 108 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 6 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
2A library has 145 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 114 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3Omar's book has 40 pages. Omar reads 8 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
4A bakery makes 7 trays of muffins with 3 muffins on each tray. It sells 10 muffins in the morning and 9 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
5A theater has 12 rows with 9 seats in each row. 85 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
6A theater has 6 rows with 3 seats in each row. 8 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
7Zoe's book has 38 pages. Zoe reads 10 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8Tickets to the zoo cost $14 for a grown-up and $2 for a kid. A group buys 8 grown-up tickets and 7 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Mei has 6 stickers and buys 2 packs with 9 stickers in each pack. Mei shares all the stickers equally among 3 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10Sam saves $6 each week for 9 weeks, then spends $24 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Sam have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 8 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
12A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 10 muffins on each tray. It sells 6 muffins in the morning and 34 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 3 cartons
- 2. 87 books
- 3. 24 pages
- 4. 2 muffins
- 5. 23 seats
- 6. 10 seats
- 7. 18 pages
- 8. 126 dollars
- 9. 8 stickers
- 10. 30 dollars
- 11. 28 pencils
- 12. 20 muffins
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