πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 28 rows with 7 seats in each row. 5 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A library has 23 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 27 books in each box. Then it lends out 78 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3Sam saves $35 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $140 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Sam have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A library has 345 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 34 books in each box. Then it lends out 31 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
5Ben saves $40 each week for 3 weeks, then spends $91 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Ben have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
6Rosa has 183 stickers and buys 7 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Rosa shares all the stickers equally among 9 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
7A theater has 34 rows with 9 seats in each row. 202 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8A bakery makes 5 trays of muffins with 39 muffins on each tray. It sells 65 muffins in the morning and 25 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
9A library has 533 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 14 books in each box. Then it lends out 149 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
10Aiden has 60 stickers and buys 7 packs with 9 stickers in each pack. Aiden shares all the stickers equally among 3 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
11A farm collects 372 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 13 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
12A library has 264 books. It gets 4 boxes of new books with 48 books in each box. Then it lends out 97 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 191 seats
- 2. 53 books
- 3. 140 dollars
- 4. 450 books
- 5. 29 dollars
- 6. 25 stickers
- 7. 104 seats
- 8. 105 muffins
- 9. 482 books
- 10. 41 stickers
- 11. 18 cartons
- 12. 359 books
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