πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 33 rows with 5 seats in each row. 66 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 28 muffins on each tray. It sells 51 muffins in the morning and 49 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
3Maya's book has 388 pages. Maya reads 31 pages a day for 8 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
4A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 15 pencils in each box. It gives 14 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5Rosa's book has 556 pages. Rosa reads 45 pages a day for 7 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6A library has 394 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 38 books in each box. Then it lends out 556 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
7A farm collects 396 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 26 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8Ana has 73 stickers and buys 5 packs with 4 stickers in each pack. Ana shares all the stickers equally among 3 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
9Rosa saves $13 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $81 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Rosa have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10Lily's book has 186 pages. Lily reads 25 pages a day for 6 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11A library has 465 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 15 books in each box. Then it lends out 294 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12A theater has 14 rows with 6 seats in each row. 61 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 99 seats
- 2. 12 muffins
- 3. 140 pages
- 4. 50 pencils
- 5. 241 pages
- 6. 66 books
- 7. 7 cartons
- 8. 31 stickers
- 9. 23 dollars
- 10. 36 pages
- 11. 276 books
- 12. 23 seats
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