πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A school buys 9 boxes of pencils with 37 pencils in each box. It gives 29 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2A school buys 9 boxes of pencils with 23 pencils in each box. It gives 34 pencils to each of 4 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
3A theater has 37 rows with 4 seats in each row. 115 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
4Tickets to the zoo cost $30 for a grown-up and $22 for a kid. A group buys 8 grown-up tickets and 3 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
5Kai's book has 277 pages. Kai reads 22 pages a day for 9 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6A farm collects 240 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 5 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
7Sam saves $48 each week for 8 weeks, then spends $163 on a new bike helmet. How many dollars does Sam have left?
Answer: ______________ dollars
8A farm collects 564 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 37 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
9A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 13 muffins on each tray. It sells 6 muffins in the morning and 57 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A library has 552 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 22 books in each box. Then it lends out 446 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
11Ben has 117 stickers and buys 3 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Ben shares all the stickers equally among 9 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
12A theater has 44 rows with 4 seats in each row. 119 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 188 pencils
- 2. 71 pencils
- 3. 33 seats
- 4. 306 dollars
- 5. 79 pages
- 6. 15 cartons
- 7. 221 dollars
- 8. 10 cartons
- 9. 54 muffins
- 10. 282 books
- 11. 15 stickers
- 12. 57 seats
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