These 20 problems practice multistep word problems with whole numbers (Common Core 4.OA.A.3). You will use all four operations, write equations with a letter for the unknown, and decide what to do with remainders. Estimation checks whether an answer is reasonable. Harder problems come last.
Grade 4 · Common Core State Standards: 4.OA.A.3
Exercise 1 – Packs of stickers
Maya has 15 stickers. She buys 3 packs with 8 stickers in each pack. Write an equation with the letter s for the total number of stickers and solve it.
Exercise 2 – Pages read
Jamal reads 24 pages each day for 5 days. On the sixth day he reads 18 pages. How many pages does he read in all?
Exercise 3 – Money left
Sofia has $50 and buys 4 notebooks.
Sofia has $50. She buys 4 notebooks that cost $6 each. How much money does she have left?
Exercise 4 – Sold bags of apples
A farmer puts 36 apples equally into 4 bags. She sells 3 of the bags. How many apples does she sell?
Exercise 5 – Card collection
Noah has 14 cards. Ethan has 3 times as many.
Noah has 14 baseball cards. Ethan has 3 times as many cards as Noah. How many cards do the two boys have in all?
Exercise 6 – Balloons
Priya buys 6 packs of balloons with 12 balloons in each pack. She also has 7 loose balloons. Write an equation with the letter b for the total number of balloons and solve it.
Exercise 7 – Ticket prices
At a school play, adult tickets cost $12 and child tickets cost $7. The Garcia family buys 3 adult tickets and 5 child tickets. What is the total cost?
Exercise 8 – Cupcake boxes
A bakery packs 144 cupcakes equally into boxes of 6. It sells 9 boxes. How many boxes are left?
Exercise 9 – Canoes
There are 75 students at a camp. Each canoe holds 4 students. How many canoes are needed so that every student has a seat?
Exercise 10 – Ribbon bows
Mei has 100 inches of ribbon. She cuts it into pieces that are each 8 inches long to make bows. How many complete pieces can she cut?
Exercise 11 – Leftover cards
Diego has 53 baseball cards. He puts the same number of cards on each of 6 pages and keeps the extra cards in his pocket. How many cards are in his pocket?
Exercise 12 – Estimate and solve
Round $19 to $20 and $52 to $50.
Aisha buys 4 shirts at $19 each and a pair of shoes for $52. Estimate the total cost by rounding each price to the nearest ten dollars. Then find the exact total.
Exercise 13 – Farmers market apples
A farmers market sold 245 pounds of apples on Saturday. On Sunday it sold 2 times as many pounds as on Saturday. All the apples were packed in 5-pound bags. How many bags were packed?
Pounds of apples sold.
Exercise 14 – School store pencils
The school store opens 8 packs of pencils with 12 pencils in each pack. It sells 3 pencils to each of 25 students. How many pencils are left?
Exercise 15 – Team uniforms
A Little League team buys 8 shirts at $14 each and 8 hats at $9 each. The coach pays with two $100 bills. How much change does the coach get?
Exercise 16 – Empty seats
A stadium has 3 sections with 1,250 seats each and one smaller section with 875 seats. For a game, 3,980 tickets were sold. How many seats are empty?
Exercise 17 – Road trip plan
Priya’s family plans a 1,260-mile road trip. They drive 360 miles on the first day. They drive the same number of miles on each of the next 4 days to finish. How many miles do they drive each of those days?
Day 1 is 360 miles. The next 4 days are equal.
Exercise 18 – Cookie bake sale
Sofia bakes 144 cookies and puts 8 cookies in each bag. She sells each bag for $3. How much money does she earn if she sells all the bags?
Exercise 19 – Field trip vans
A third-grade class has 138 students, and 5 teachers go on a field trip. Each van holds 9 people. What is the fewest number of vans needed?
Exercise 20 – Is it reasonable?
A library has 2,450 books. It adds 3 boxes with 128 books in each box and then removes 275 old books. Noah calculates (2,450 + 128) × 3 − 275 and gets 7,459. Use an estimate to show that his answer is not reasonable, then find the correct number of books.
Multiplying a Fraction by a Whole Number Test with Point Values
