πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 38 rows with 8 seats in each row. 111 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A farm collects 264 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 10 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
3Tickets to the zoo cost $27 for a grown-up and $9 for a kid. A group buys 9 grown-up tickets and 6 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A library has 605 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 29 books in each box. Then it lends out 358 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5Nora's book has 352 pages. Nora reads 40 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6Tickets to the zoo cost $37 for a grown-up and $6 for a kid. A group buys 9 grown-up tickets and 8 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
7A theater has 42 rows with 5 seats in each row. 95 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8Lily's book has 253 pages. Lily reads 23 pages a day for 7 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
9A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 27 muffins on each tray. It sells 24 muffins in the morning and 57 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A farm collects 492 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 36 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
11A farm collects 372 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 19 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
12A library has 635 books. It gets 3 boxes of new books with 34 books in each box. Then it lends out 22 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 193 seats
- 2. 12 cartons
- 3. 297 dollars
- 4. 479 books
- 5. 232 pages
- 6. 381 dollars
- 7. 115 seats
- 8. 92 pages
- 9. 162 muffins
- 10. 5 cartons
- 11. 12 cartons
- 12. 715 books
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