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 17 pencils in each box. It gives 16 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
2Tickets to the zoo cost $39 for a grown-up and $18 for a kid. A group buys 6 grown-up tickets and 4 kid tickets. How many dollars do they pay in all?
Answer: ______________ dollars
3A bakery makes 4 trays of muffins with 84 muffins on each tray. It sells 139 muffins in the morning and 161 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4A farm collects 132 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 6 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
5Nora's book has 313 pages. Nora reads 67 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
6A school buys 7 boxes of pencils with 51 pencils in each box. It gives 53 pencils to each of 6 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
7A library has 28 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 43 books in each box. Then it lends out 341 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
8A farm collects 168 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 6 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
9Zoe has 366 stickers and buys 8 packs with 9 stickers in each pack. Zoe shares all the stickers equally among 6 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
10Lily's book has 872 pages. Lily reads 96 pages a day for 6 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
11A theater has 26 rows with 7 seats in each row. 180 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
12A theater has 97 rows with 9 seats in each row. 553 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 41 pencils
- 2. 306 dollars
- 3. 36 muffins
- 4. 5 cartons
- 5. 45 pages
- 6. 39 pencils
- 7. 74 books
- 8. 8 cartons
- 9. 73 stickers
- 10. 296 pages
- 11. 2 seats
- 12. 320 seats
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