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Pet Shelter Comparison Stories

Grade 4 pet shelter word problems: multiply or divide to solve times-as-many comparisons and tell them apart from more-than stories.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.OA.A.2

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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students multiply to find the larger amount in times-as-many comparison stories.
Students divide to find a smaller amount or how many times as many in comparison stories.
Students tell times-as-many comparisons apart from more-than comparisons.

How to use

Solve problem 1 together and draw a tape diagram with 1 bar for the cats and 4 equal bars for the dogs. Students can sketch bars for the other stories before they write an equation.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.OA.A.2

Multiply or divide to solve story problems that compare quantities.

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Pet Shelter Comparison Stories

Multiply or divide to solve times-as-many stories.

Find the larger amount

Multiply to solve each comparison story.

The shelter has 7 cats. It has 4 times as many dogs as cats. Let d be the number of dogs.

d = 4 × 7, so d = dogs

A puppy weighs 6 pounds. A grown dog weighs 9 times as much as the puppy.

The grown dog weighs pounds.

Ana walked 8 dogs. Leo walked 3 times as many dogs as Ana. Which equation finds n, the number of dogs Leo walked?

A. n = 8 + 3
B. 8 = 3 × n
C. n = 3 × 8
D. n = 8 − 3

A volunteer brings 12 bags of cat litter to the shelter. She brings 5 times as many towels as bags of litter.

She brings towels.

Find the smaller amount or how many times

Divide to solve each comparison story.

The shelter has 45 cans of cat food. That is 5 times as many as the number of bags of treats.

There are bags of treats.

A large dog bed costs $56. That is 8 times as much as a chew toy costs.

The chew toy costs $ .

The shelter has 6 hamsters and 48 fish.

There are times as many fish as hamsters.

Match each story to the equation that solves it. The letter b stands for the unknown number.

Ivy fed 8 birds. Max fed 5 times as many birds as Ivy. How many birds did Max feed?
Max fed 40 birds. That is 5 times as many birds as Ivy fed. How many birds did Ivy feed?
Max fed 40 birds. Ivy fed 8 birds. How many times as many birds did Max feed?

A. 40 = b × 8
B. 40 = 5 × b
C. b = 5 × 8

Times as many or more than?

Decide whether each story compares by multiplying or by adding.

Sort each story by how you would solve it.

There are 4 kittens. There are 6 times as many grown cats. How many grown cats are there?Omar brushed 36 dogs. That is 4 more dogs than Jen brushed. How many dogs did Jen brush?There are 4 kittens. There are 6 more grown cats than kittens. How many grown cats are there?Omar brushed 36 dogs. That is 4 times as many dogs as Jen brushed. How many dogs did Jen brush?