Multi-Step Word Problems 4th grade Math

Comparison Problems

100

Elizabeth has 7 times as many paint brushes as Cooper. Cooper has 14 paint brushes. How many paint brushes, p, does Elizabeth have?

98

200

Gabe bought 192 basketballs. Brodee bought 118 more than Gabe. How many basketballs, b, did Brodee buy?

310

300

Mr. Bailey has 12 times as many star wars toys than Caleb has. Caleb has 56 star wars toys at home. How many toys, t, does Mr. Bailey have?

672

400

Lily has 77 magazines. That is 7 times as many magazines as Ashlyn has. How many magazines, m, does Ashlyn have?

11

500

Alyssa walked 288 minutes. That is 4 times as many minutes as Alex walked. How many minutes, m, did Alex walk?

72

Multi Step Problems

100

While playing a trivia game, Chaz answered sixteen questions correct in the first half and forty questions correct in the second half. If each question was worth twenty-three points, what was his final score?

1288

200

At the town carnival, Katie rode the Ferris wheel seventeen times, the Hurricane 16 times, and the bumper cars three times. If each ride costs twelve tickets, how many tickets did she use?

432

300

Tyler was collecting cans for recycling. On Saturday, he filled five bags up and on Sunday he filled eight more bags. If each bag had 79 cans in it, how many cans did he pick up total?

1027

400

There were fourteen friends playing a video game online when five more players joined the game. If each player had fourteen lives, how many lives did they have total?

266

500

While shopping for music online, Karina bought sixteen country CD's and two pop CD's. Each CD came had eleven songs. How many songs did Karina buy total?

198

Multi Step Problems

100

A pet store had ninety siamese cats and forty-five house cats. During a sale they sold fifty-six cats. How many cats do they have left?

79

200

Lynsie bought two coloring books. One had two-hundred twenty-four pictures and the other had four-hundred thirty-nine. After one week she had already colored twenty-four of the pictures. How many pictures does she still have to color?

639

300

For Halloween Katie and Rebekah combined the candy they received. Katie had eighty-nine pieces of candy while her Rebekah had sixty. If they each ate eight pieces the first night, how many pieces do they have left?

133

400

Noah was trying to expand his game collection. He bought one-hundred fifty games from a friend and bought twenty-seven more at a garage sale. If seventy of the games didn't work, how many good games did he end up with?

107

500

Cody had forty-five dollars. For his birthday he got $9 more but spent $20 on a new game. How much money does he have now?

$34

Multi Step Problems

100

At the carnival Aidan bought 120 tickets. After riding the carnival rides he had 23 tickets left. If each ticket cost $2, how much money did Aidan spend riding the rides?

What is $194

200

A worksheet had 17 problems on it. If Mr. Bailey had 97 worksheets to grade and had already graded 8 of them, how many more problems does he have to grade?

1513

300

A trivia team had 19 members total, but during a game 2 members didn't show up. If each member that did show up scored 16 points, how many points were scored total?

272

400

Chase had 34 video games but eight of them weren't working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $6 each, how much money could he earn?

$156

500

Nickolas earned $10 for each lawn he mowed. If he had 15 lawns to mow, but forgot to mow two of them, how much money did he actually earn?

$130

Multi Step Problems

100

On Friday nights Pizza Hut sold 5 Large pizzas and some medium pizzas. Pizza Hut made $291. If Large pizzas cost $15 and medium pizzas cost $9. How many medium pizzas were sold?

24

200

The cafeteria had two-hundred fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-seven to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes six apples, how many pies could they make?

34

300

Carter bought one-hundred sixty-seven tickets at the state fair. He spent twenty-two tickets at the 'dunk a clown' booth and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost five tickets, how many rides could he go on?

29

400

Boston was selling his old games. He started out with two-thousand sixty-eight but sold forty-four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?

253

500

Gage made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. He spent thirty-nine dollars buying new mower blades. Gage bought 7 games with the money he had left. How much did each game cost?

$3