πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 3 rows with 9 seats in each row. 8 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 8 pencils in each box. It gives 3 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
3Nora saves $10 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $26 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Nora have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A theater has 9 rows with 5 seats in each row. 2 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
5Lily's book has 86 pages. Lily reads 7 pages a day for 8 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6Ana saves $12 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $36 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Ana have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7A farm collects 132 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 2 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 10 muffins on each tray. It sells 10 muffins in the morning and 17 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
9Ben has 13 stickers and buys 5 packs with 7 stickers in each pack. Ben shares all the stickers equally among 6 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10A library has 118 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 6 books in each box. Then it lends out 69 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
11A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 12 muffins on each tray. It sells 13 muffins in the morning and 31 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
12Nora's book has 104 pages. Nora reads 12 pages a day for 8 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 19 seats
- 2. 3 pencils
- 3. 4 dollars
- 4. 43 seats
- 5. 30 pages
- 6. 60 dollars
- 7. 9 cartons
- 8. 63 muffins
- 9. 8 stickers
- 10. 103 books
- 11. 16 muffins
- 12. 8 pages
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