πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 7 boxes of pencils with 7 pencils in each box. It gives 8 pencils to each of 2 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Tickets to the zoo cost $9 for a grown-up and $2 for a kid. A group buys 2 grown-up tickets and 9 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3A library has 140 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 109 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
4A farm collects 168 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
5A school buys 6 boxes of pencils with 11 pencils in each box. It gives 5 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
6Nora's book has 83 pages. Nora reads 5 pages a day for 9 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
7A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 9 pencils in each box. It gives 6 pencils to each of 3 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
8A theater has 5 rows with 3 seats in each row. 4 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
9A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 11 muffins on each tray. It sells 14 muffins in the morning and 40 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A farm collects 96 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 3 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
11Theo saves $4 each week for 6 weeks, then spends $11 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Theo have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12A library has 179 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 14 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 33 pencils
- 2. 36 dollars
- 3. 63 books
- 4. 4 cartons
- 5. 31 pencils
- 6. 38 pages
- 7. 9 pencils
- 8. 11 seats
- 9. 12 muffins
- 10. 5 cartons
- 11. 13 dollars
- 12. 181 books
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