πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 5 boxes of pencils with 9 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2A farm collects 48 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 2 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
3Zoe has 3 stickers and buys 4 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Zoe shares all the stickers equally among 9 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
4Sam saves $10 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $22 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Sam have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Tickets to the zoo cost $15 for a grown-up and $7 for a kid. A group buys 3 grown-up tickets and 7 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6A library has 146 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 8 books in each box. Then it lends out 131 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
7A school buys 7 boxes of pencils with 10 pencils in each box. It gives 6 pencils to each of 9 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
8A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 6 muffins on each tray. It sells 11 muffins in the morning and 5 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
9Theo's book has 59 pages. Theo reads 6 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
10A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 6 muffins on each tray. It sells 15 muffins in the morning and 19 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
11Tickets to the zoo cost $9 for a grown-up and $3 for a kid. A group buys 3 grown-up tickets and 7 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12A library has 139 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 12 books in each box. Then it lends out 77 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 33 pencils
- 2. 2 cartons
- 3. 3 stickers
- 4. 28 dollars
- 5. 94 dollars
- 6. 63 books
- 7. 16 pencils
- 8. 38 muffins
- 9. 29 pages
- 10. 2 muffins
- 11. 48 dollars
- 12. 134 books
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