πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A theater has 62 rows with 6 seats in each row. 142 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
2Ben's book has 549 pages. Ben reads 56 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
3A theater has 22 rows with 5 seats in each row. 90 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
4A theater has 95 rows with 8 seats in each row. 612 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
5A library has 461 books. It gets 6 boxes of new books with 92 books in each box. Then it lends out 415 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
6A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 93 muffins on each tray. It sells 119 muffins in the morning and 170 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
7A farm collects 408 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 14 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
8Tickets to the zoo cost $7 for a grown-up and $5 for a kid. A group buys 5 grown-up tickets and 6 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
9A farm collects 216 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 8 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
10Zoe's book has 617 pages. Zoe reads 91 pages a day for 5 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 33 muffins on each tray. It sells 52 muffins in the morning and 47 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
12A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 75 muffins on each tray. It sells 120 muffins in the morning and 154 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 230 seats
- 2. 269 pages
- 3. 20 seats
- 4. 148 seats
- 5. 598 books
- 6. 269 muffins
- 7. 20 cartons
- 8. 65 dollars
- 9. 10 cartons
- 10. 162 pages
- 11. 33 muffins
- 12. 26 muffins
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