πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 4 boxes of pencils with 3 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2A theater has 7 rows with 9 seats in each row. 16 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
3Theo's book has 82 pages. Theo reads 6 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
4A theater has 12 rows with 5 seats in each row. 54 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
5Jamal saves $11 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $34 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Jamal have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Ben has 42 stickers and buys 8 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Ben shares all the stickers equally among 9 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
7A theater has 8 rows with 4 seats in each row. 18 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8A school buys 4 boxes of pencils with 3 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
9Nora saves $5 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $14 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Nora have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10A farm collects 48 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 2 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
11A library has 81 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 91 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12A theater has 8 rows with 6 seats in each row. 22 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 2 pencils
- 2. 47 seats
- 3. 58 pages
- 4. 6 seats
- 5. 21 dollars
- 6. 10 stickers
- 7. 14 seats
- 8. 4 pencils
- 9. 26 dollars
- 10. 2 cartons
- 11. 38 books
- 12. 26 seats
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