πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 12 rows with 4 seats in each row. 28 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A school buys 6 boxes of pencils with 6 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
3A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 8 muffins on each tray. It sells 30 muffins in the morning and 17 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4A school buys 4 boxes of pencils with 8 pencils in each box. It gives 6 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5Leo's book has 72 pages. Leo reads 5 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6A farm collects 48 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 2 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
7A farm collects 180 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 7 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8Lily saves $7 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $5 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Lily have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9Ben's book has 116 pages. Ben reads 8 pages a day for 8 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
10Ben's book has 48 pages. Ben reads 6 pages a day for 7 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11A library has 194 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 6 books in each box. Then it lends out 187 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12Sam saves $10 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $75 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Sam have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 20 seats
- 2. 26 pencils
- 3. 25 muffins
- 4. 2 pencils
- 5. 52 pages
- 6. 2 cartons
- 7. 8 cartons
- 8. 16 dollars
- 9. 52 pages
- 10. 6 pages
- 11. 31 books
- 12. 5 dollars
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