πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 11 rows with 6 seats in each row. 20 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2Nora's book has 73 pages. Nora reads 5 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
3A theater has 4 rows with 7 seats in each row. 21 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
4A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 10 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 9 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5Maya's book has 48 pages. Maya reads 6 pages a day for 2 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6A bakery makes 7 trays of muffins with 11 muffins on each tray. It sells 29 muffins in the morning and 14 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
7A library has 192 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 10 books in each box. Then it lends out 196 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
8A school buys 7 boxes of pencils with 3 pencils in each box. It gives 3 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
9A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 10 muffins on each tray. It sells 45 muffins in the morning and 40 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A farm collects 156 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
11A theater has 3 rows with 6 seats in each row. 4 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
12Tickets to the zoo cost $6 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
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 46 seats
- 2. 58 pages
- 3. 7 seats
- 4. 14 pencils
- 5. 36 pages
- 6. 34 muffins
- 7. 76 books
- 8. 6 pencils
- 9. 5 muffins
- 10. 3 cartons
- 11. 14 seats
- 12. 30 dollars
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