πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A library has 81 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 46 books in each box. Then it lends out 138 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
2A library has 848 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 34 books in each box. Then it lends out 469 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3Lily saves $12 each week for 7 weeks, then spends $58 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Lily have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A theater has 37 rows with 6 seats in each row. 9 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
5A farm collects 60 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 3 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
6Theo's book has 352 pages. Theo reads 21 pages a day for 8 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
7Tickets to the zoo cost $39 for a grown-up and $25 for a kid. A group buys 4 grown-up tickets and 7 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8A theater has 26 rows with 8 seats in each row. 148 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
9A farm collects 372 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 5 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
10A library has 164 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 27 books in each box. Then it lends out 206 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
11Lily's book has 169 pages. Lily reads 16 pages a day for 9 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
12A theater has 24 rows with 7 seats in each row. 50 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 265 books
- 2. 685 books
- 3. 26 dollars
- 4. 213 seats
- 5. 2 cartons
- 6. 184 pages
- 7. 331 dollars
- 8. 60 seats
- 9. 26 cartons
- 10. 120 books
- 11. 25 pages
- 12. 118 seats
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