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Apple Orchard Multistep Story Problems

Grade 4 multistep word problems set at an apple orchard: use all four operations, interpret remainders, and check answers with estimates.

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Aligned to4.OA.A.3

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

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What students practice

Students solve multistep word problems with whole numbers using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Students decide whether a remainder is dropped, rounded up, or is itself the answer in a story problem.
Students write equations with a letter for the unknown and use rounding to check if answers are reasonable.

How to use

Use after students can multiply and divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers. Ask them to name each step before computing and to say what the remainder means in each story.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.OA.A.3

Solve multistep story problems with whole numbers and the four operations, including remainders.

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Apple Orchard Multistep Story Problems

Pick, pack, and sell apples while solving problems that take more than one step.

Picking and packing

Solve each problem. Most of them take more than one step.

The Nguyen family picks 6 baskets of apples. Each basket holds 35 apples. They eat 18 apples at a picnic. How many apples are left?

apples

Workers pack 253 apples into bags. Each bag holds 8 apples. They fill as many bags as they can.

Number of full bags:
Apples left over:

Mia has $40. At the farm stand she buys 3 bags of apples for $7 each and one apple pie for $12. How much money does she have left?

The orchard store has 147 jars of applesauce to put away. Each shelf holds 9 jars. How many shelves are needed to store all of the jars?

shelves

The farm stand sells 128 caramel apples on Saturday. On Sunday it sells twice as many caramel apples as on Saturday. How many caramel apples does it sell on both days together?

caramel apples

Grandpa Ray has 6 crates with 48 apples in each crate. He shares all of the apples equally among 4 neighbors. How many apples does each neighbor get?

apples

What does the remainder mean?

Think about what the leftover amount means in each story.

Every story below uses 58 ÷ 6 = 9 R4. Sort each story by its answer.

58 apples are put into bags of 6. How many bags are full?58 apples go into boxes that hold 6 each. Every apple must go in a box. How many boxes are needed?58 apples are put into bags of 6. How many apples are not in a full bag?58 apple pickers ride in vans. Each van seats 6 people. How many vans are needed so everyone gets a ride?58 apple muffins are shared equally by 6 tables. Each table gets only whole muffins. How many muffins does each table get?6 friends share 58 apple slices equally. How many slices are left over?

The answer is 9	The answer is 10	The answer is 4

Each story uses 100 ÷ 8. Which story has an answer of 13?

A. 100 apples are put into bags of 8. How many full bags are there?
B. 100 apples are put into bags of 8. How many apples are left over?
C. 100 apple trees need nets. Each net covers 8 trees. How many nets are needed to cover every tree?
D. 8 friends share 100 apple chips equally. How many whole chips does each friend get?

Equations and checking

Choose the best answer or fill in the blank. Use scrap paper to show your work.

The orchard has 3 rows of pear trees with 46 trees in each row. It also has 5 rows of apple trees with 28 trees in each row. Which equation shows t, the total number of trees?

A. t = (3 + 5) × (46 + 28)
B. t = 3 × 46 + 5 × 28
C. t = 3 × 28 + 5 × 46
D. t = 3 + 46 + 5 + 28

10.

Use the tree story above. How many trees are in the orchard?

t = trees

11.

A farm truck brings 6 loads of apples with 289 apples in each load. Then 512 more apples arrive. Kai says there are 2,246 apples in all. Round 289 and 512 to the nearest hundred to check. Which statement is correct?

A. Kai's answer is reasonable, because 6 × 300 + 500 = 2,300, which is close to 2,246.
B. Kai's answer is not reasonable, because 6 × 300 + 500 = 1,300.
C. Kai's answer is not reasonable, because 6 + 300 + 500 = 806.
D. Kai's answer is reasonable, because 6 × 200 + 500 = 1,700.

12.

Ms. Lopez buys 5 jars of apple butter. Each jar costs the same amount, j dollars. She pays with a $50 bill and gets $15 back. The equation 5 × j = 50 − 15 shows this story. What is j?

j = $

13.

The bakers have 230 apples. Each apple pie uses 8 apples. They make as many whole pies as they can. Then they cut every pie into 6 slices. How many slices of pie do they have?

slices

14.

Write your own orchard story problem that takes two steps, uses multiplication and subtraction, and has an answer of 50. Write an equation for your story and solve it.