πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm collects 120 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 8 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
2A library has 818 books. It gets 8 boxes of new books with 33 books in each box. Then it lends out 940 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3A theater has 33 rows with 8 seats in each row. 178 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
4A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 68 pencils in each box. It gives 22 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5A library has 121 books. It gets 7 boxes of new books with 69 books in each box. Then it lends out 431 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
6Zoe's book has 696 pages. Zoe reads 61 pages a day for 9 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
7Jamal's book has 269 pages. Jamal reads 35 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
8A theater has 95 rows with 4 seats in each row. 251 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
9Zoe has 828 stickers and buys 6 packs with 6 stickers in each pack. Zoe shares all the stickers equally among 9 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10Tickets to the zoo cost $32 for a grown-up and $15 for a kid. A group buys 8 grown-up tickets and 6 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
11A school buys 4 boxes of pencils with 78 pencils in each box. It gives 3 pencils to each of 9 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
12A bakery makes 9 trays of muffins with 98 muffins on each tray. It sells 349 muffins in the morning and 392 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 2 cartons
- 2. 142 books
- 3. 86 seats
- 4. 390 pencils
- 5. 173 books
- 6. 147 pages
- 7. 94 pages
- 8. 129 seats
- 9. 96 stickers
- 10. 346 dollars
- 11. 285 pencils
- 12. 141 muffins
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