πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 11 rows with 9 seats in each row. 52 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A theater has 7 rows with 7 seats in each row. 45 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
3A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 6 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
4A library has 114 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 11 books in each box. Then it lends out 127 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5Kai saves $8 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $14 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Kai have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Nora saves $4 each week for 7 weeks, then spends $10 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Nora have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7Sam's book has 33 pages. Sam reads 4 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 11 muffins on each tray. It sells 26 muffins in the morning and 24 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
9Leo has 21 stickers and buys 3 packs with 7 stickers in each pack. Leo shares all the stickers equally among 6 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10Tickets to the zoo cost $8 for a grown-up and $6 for a kid. A group buys 4 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11A library has 53 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 7 books in each box. Then it lends out 7 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12A theater has 6 rows with 5 seats in each row. 13 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 47 seats
- 2. 4 seats
- 3. 6 pencils
- 4. 75 books
- 5. 26 dollars
- 6. 18 dollars
- 7. 13 pages
- 8. 5 muffins
- 9. 7 stickers
- 10. 50 dollars
- 11. 109 books
- 12. 17 seats
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