πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 6 boxes of pencils with 27 pencils in each box. It gives 21 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Aiden's book has 228 pages. Aiden reads 24 pages a day for 7 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
3Rosa saves $14 each week for 6 weeks, then spends $12 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Rosa have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A school buys 4 boxes of pencils with 12 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5Ben has 251 stickers and buys 6 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Ben shares all the stickers equally among 7 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
6Tickets to the zoo cost $20 for a grown-up and $8 for a kid. A group buys 3 grown-up tickets and 8 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7A theater has 17 rows with 8 seats in each row. 52 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8A farm collects 696 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 30 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
9A theater has 16 rows with 7 seats in each row. 88 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
10A farm collects 492 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
11A theater has 35 rows with 9 seats in each row. 209 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
12A library has 82 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 32 books in each box. Then it lends out 255 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 57 pencils
- 2. 60 pages
- 3. 72 dollars
- 4. 20 pencils
- 5. 41 stickers
- 6. 124 dollars
- 7. 84 seats
- 8. 28 cartons
- 9. 24 seats
- 10. 31 cartons
- 11. 106 seats
- 12. 115 books
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