πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A library has 434 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 12 books in each box. Then it lends out 247 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
2A theater has 35 rows with 6 seats in each row. 29 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
3Maya saves $27 each week for 4 weeks, then spends $87 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Maya have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
4A theater has 13 rows with 9 seats in each row. 72 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
5Priya's book has 143 pages. Priya reads 22 pages a day for 3 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6Omar has 296 stickers and buys 5 packs with 8 stickers in each pack. Omar shares all the stickers equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
7A farm collects 396 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 9 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8A farm collects 48 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 2 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
9Jamal saves $39 each week for 4 weeks, then spends $8 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Jamal have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
10A library has 840 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 44 books in each box. Then it lends out 399 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
11Priya saves $40 each week for 5 weeks, then spends $9 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Priya have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
12Tickets to the zoo cost $13 for a grown-up and $4 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 7 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 259 books
- 2. 181 seats
- 3. 21 dollars
- 4. 45 seats
- 5. 77 pages
- 6. 42 stickers
- 7. 24 cartons
- 8. 2 cartons
- 9. 148 dollars
- 10. 749 books
- 11. 191 dollars
- 12. 93 dollars
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