πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 4 rows with 8 seats in each row. 3 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A library has 66 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 60 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3A theater has 3 rows with 7 seats in each row. 19 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
4A library has 62 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 12 books in each box. Then it lends out 153 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5A school buys 9 boxes of pencils with 3 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
6Lily's book has 64 pages. Lily reads 4 pages a day for 7 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
7Omar's book has 50 pages. Omar reads 3 pages a day for 9 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8A library has 23 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 3 books in each box. Then it lends out 43 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
9A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 7 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
10A theater has 8 rows with 5 seats in each row. 27 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
11A bakery makes 7 trays of muffins with 4 muffins on each tray. It sells 9 muffins in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
12A theater has 8 rows with 4 seats in each row. 12 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 29 seats
- 2. 38 books
- 3. 2 seats
- 4. 17 books
- 5. 3 pencils
- 6. 36 pages
- 7. 23 pages
- 8. 4 books
- 9. 11 pencils
- 10. 13 seats
- 11. 15 muffins
- 12. 20 seats
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