πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A library has 87 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 10 books in each box. Then it lends out 87 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
2A theater has 8 rows with 6 seats in each row. 9 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
3A bakery makes 7 trays of muffins with 11 muffins on each tray. It sells 27 muffins in the morning and 33 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4A library has 97 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 6 books in each box. Then it lends out 91 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 12 pencils in each box. It gives 3 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
6A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 10 muffins on each tray. It sells 11 muffins in the morning and 5 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
7Maya's book has 24 pages. Maya reads 3 pages a day for 6 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8A library has 29 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 3 books in each box. Then it lends out 35 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
9Rosa has 45 stickers and buys 6 packs with 3 stickers in each pack. Rosa shares all the stickers equally among 7 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10A theater has 6 rows with 5 seats in each row. 19 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
11A theater has 9 rows with 9 seats in each row. 8 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
12A theater has 9 rows with 5 seats in each row. 3 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 80 books
- 2. 39 seats
- 3. 17 muffins
- 4. 30 books
- 5. 21 pencils
- 6. 44 muffins
- 7. 6 pages
- 8. 15 books
- 9. 9 stickers
- 10. 11 seats
- 11. 73 seats
- 12. 42 seats
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