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 8 pencils in each box. It gives 5 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Tickets to the zoo cost $7 for a grown-up and $3 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 9 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3Theo saves $9 each week for 7 weeks, then spends $5 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Theo have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 9 pencils in each box. It gives 2 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5Tickets to the zoo cost $15 for a grown-up and $10 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6A theater has 3 rows with 8 seats in each row. 8 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
7A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 11 muffins on each tray. It sells 3 muffins in the morning and 37 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
8A library has 125 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 4 books in each box. Then it lends out 124 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
9Rosa has 47 stickers and buys 3 packs with 3 stickers in each pack. Rosa shares all the stickers equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10Jamal saves $8 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $36 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Jamal have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11Rosa has 25 stickers and buys 3 packs with 5 stickers in each pack. Rosa shares all the stickers equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
12A library has 52 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 3 books in each box. Then it lends out 53 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 7 pencils
- 2. 62 dollars
- 3. 58 dollars
- 4. 62 pencils
- 5. 105 dollars
- 6. 16 seats
- 7. 26 muffins
- 8. 17 books
- 9. 7 stickers
- 10. 4 dollars
- 11. 5 stickers
- 12. 20 books
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