πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core 4.OA.A.3
🎟️ Multi-step stories
Multi-step story problems, interpreting remainders
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm collects 96 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 4 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
2A library has 177 books. It gets 9 boxes of new books with 60 books in each box. Then it lends out 540 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
3A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 66 muffins on each tray. It sells 97 muffins in the morning and 288 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
4A school buys 9 boxes of pencils with 99 pencils in each box. It gives 84 pencils to each of 7 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
5A farm collects 120 eggs and packs them in cartons of 12. It sells 3 cartons. How many cartons are left?
Answer: ______________ cartons
6Rosa has 312 stickers and buys 4 packs with 8 stickers in each pack. Rosa shares all the stickers equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
7A theater has 57 rows with 4 seats in each row. 221 people come to the show. How many seats are empty?
Answer: ______________ seats
8Nora's book has 438 pages. Nora reads 84 pages a day for 4 days. How many pages are left to read?
Answer: ______________ pages
9A bakery makes 6 trays of muffins with 96 muffins on each tray. It sells 8 muffins in the morning and 505 in the afternoon. How many muffins are left?
Answer: ______________ muffins
10A school buys 8 boxes of pencils with 80 pencils in each box. It gives 37 pencils to each of 5 classes. How many pencils are left?
Answer: ______________ pencils
11A library has 164 books. It gets 5 boxes of new books with 92 books in each box. Then it lends out 255 books. How many books are still in the library?
Answer: ______________ books
12Sam has 264 stickers and buys 8 packs with 7 stickers in each pack. Sam shares all the stickers equally among 8 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Answer: ______________ stickers
Answer key: Multi-step stories
- 1. 4 cartons
- 2. 177 books
- 3. 11 muffins
- 4. 303 pencils
- 5. 7 cartons
- 6. 43 stickers
- 7. 7 seats
- 8. 102 pages
- 9. 63 muffins
- 10. 455 pencils
- 11. 369 books
- 12. 40 stickers
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