πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 36 pencils in each box. It gives 70 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2A farm collects 456 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 9 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
3Omar saves $21 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $104 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Omar have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A bakery makes 3 trays of muffins with 15 muffins on each tray. It sells 16 muffins in the morning and 8 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
5A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 12 muffins on each tray. It sells 7 muffins in the morning and 37 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
6A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 24 pencils in each box. It gives 20 pencils to each of 8 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
7Tickets to the zoo cost $36 for a grown-up and $15 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8Tickets to the zoo cost $27 for a grown-up and $3 for a kid. A group buys 3 grown-up tickets and 8 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9A library has 629 books. It gets 5 boxes of new books with 31 books in each box. Then it lends out 100 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
10A school buys 3 boxes of pencils with 22 pencils in each box. It gives 4 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
11A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 37 pencils in each box. It gives 56 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
12A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 41 muffins on each tray. It sells 73 muffins in the morning and 16 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 8 pencils
- 2. 29 cartons
- 3. 64 dollars
- 4. 21 muffins
- 5. 28 muffins
- 6. 32 pencils
- 7. 225 dollars
- 8. 105 dollars
- 9. 684 books
- 10. 46 pencils
- 11. 16 pencils
- 12. 75 muffins
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