GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS -- Spring 2010 Released Test

Hayden has $20 to spend at the county fair. Admission to the fair is $5.00 per person, and tickets for food and games are $1.25 per ticket. What information is needed to calculate the amount of money that Hayden will have left after attending the fair?
1. The number of prizes he won
2. The number of hours he attended
3. The number of tickets he purchased
4. The number of miles the fair is from his house
Amy bought three CDs for $15.34, $17.57, and $10.29, including sales tax. She gave the clerk $50.00. Which is closest to the amount of change Amy should receive?
1. $1.00
2. $7.00
3. $10.00
4. $17.00
What is 11.25 divided by 0.5 ?
1. 2,250
2. 225
3. 22.5
4. 2.25
Donna and Darcy collected newspapers for recycling. Donna collected pounds of newspaper. Darcy collected pounds of newspaper. What was the total amount of newspaper they collected?
In her shopping cart, Jody has 2 pounds of oranges at $0.99 per pound, 3 cans of soup at $1.19 per can, and 1 gallon of ice cream at $3.79 per gallon. Which is closest to the total cost of the items in her shopping cart?
1. $9.00
2. $8.00
3. $7.00
4. $6.00
1. 8
2. 80
3. 800
4. 8,000
Which fraction is equivalent to ?
Look at the table.

Which could be used to determine the total amount of money Gwen spent before tax?
1. Multiply the cost per item by the number of items, then add the products
2. Divide the cost per item by the number of items, then multiply the quotients
3. Divide the cost per item by the number of items, then add the quotients
4. Multiply the cost per item by the number of items, then multiply the products
Jasmine’s recipe requires cup flour. She has only cup of flour in the pantry. How much more flour does she need?
The table shows the prices for CDs at 4 different stores.

Which store has the lowest price per CD?
1. Budget Buy
2. CD City
3. Music Mall
4. Shop Smart
A prime number can best be described as —
1. a number with more than 2 different factors
2. a number with exactly 2 different factors
3. always an even number
4. always an odd number
What is the greatest common factor of 18 and 33 ?
1. 594
2. 198
3. 6
4. 3
Which decimals are ordered from least to greatest ?
1. 0.009, 0.8, 0.05, 1.0
2. 0.009, 0.05, 0.8, 1.0
3. 1.0, 0.05, 0.8, 0.009
4. 1.0, 0.8, 0.05, 0.009
Which of the following is true?
1. −16 = 16
2. −29 > 24
3. −47 < −43
4. −70 < −77
Sam owns a canoe rental company with 120 boats. He has 55 wood boats, and the rest are fiberglass. What is the ratio of wood boats to fiberglass boats?
1. 55:65
2. 65:55
3. 120:55
4. 120:65
Which is a composite number?
1. 49
2. 47
3. 37
4. 29
Which percent is equivalent to ?
1. 15%
2. 20%
3. 35%
4. 60%
Which digit could be found in the ones place of an odd number?
1. 0
2. 1
3. 2
4. 4
Which is closest to the area of a classroom bulletin board?
1. 2,000 square inches
2. 2,000 square feet
3. 2,000 cubic inches
4. 2,000 cubic feet
Which angle has a measure closest to 90°?
How many ounces are equivalent to 25 pounds?
1. 175 ounces
2. 200 ounces
3. 370 ounces
4. 400 ounces
Nikki drew a sketch of the floor plan of her home.

Which two rooms in Nikki’s sketch appear to be congruent?
1. Bedroom 1 and Family Room
2. Dining Room and Bedroom 1
3. Living Room and Bedroom 2
4. Living Room and Dining Room
A wheel has a radius of 67.5 meters. Which is closest to the circumference of this wheel?
1. 211.95
2. 423.9 m
3. 4,556.25 m
4. 14,306.62 m
What is equivalent to 3 gallons?
1. 3 quarts
2. 4 quarts
3. 6 quarts
4. 12 quarts
What is the area of the triangle shown?
What number of feet equals 24 yards?
1. 2
2. 8
3. 72
4. 288
Three angle measures of quadrilateral WXYZ are labeled in the figure.
1. 112°
2. 158°
3. 202°
4. 248°
Which triangle appears to have 3 congruent angles?
Which of the following shapes is not a parallelogram?
1. Trapezoid
2. Rectangle
3. Rhombus
4. Square
A net of a three-dimensional figure is shown below.

Which is most likely the figure?
If a data set has an odd number of data and is in numerical order, then the middle value represents the —
1. median
2. range
3. mean
4. mode
The first 200 visitors to a state park were asked about their favorite park activity. The results are shown in this circle graph.

Which of the following is closest to the number of these 200 visitors who said hiking was their favorite activity?
1. 50 visitors
2. 75 visitors
This box-and-whisker plot displays information about the test scores for 25 students.

Based on the information in this box-and-whisker plot, which of the following statements is true?
1. The highest score on the test is 90.
2. The range of the test scores is 15.
3. The median test score is 85.
4. The mean test score is 85.
A bag contains 4 red, 5 green, 3 blue, and 6 yellow tiles of equal size and shape. One tile is randomly selected from the bag. What is the probability that the tile selected is blue?
Look at the table.

What is the mean of the number of tickets sold over these four days?
1. 25
2. 27
3. 28
4. 29
Mr. Murphy asked 24 of his students how many miles they live from the school. The stem-and-leaf plot shows the data.

Which of the following is a true conclusion based on the data in the stem-and-leaf plot?
1. Five students live 1 mile from the school.
2. Three students live 4 miles from the school.
3. Exactly half the students live 7 or more miles from the school.
4. The maximum distance a student lives from the school is 15 miles.
Andy is packing clothes for a camping trip.

Based on the chart, which of the following shows all of Andy’s possible clothing combinations of 1 color of shirt, 1 type of pants, and 1 type of shoes?
This graph shows the number of people who used the Internet each year in the United States from 1997 to 2003.

Based on the information in the graph, between which two years did the smallest increase occur?
1. 1997 and 1998
2. 1998 and 1999
3. 2001 and 2002
4. 2002 and 2003
What value of m makes this number sentence true?
1. 175
2. 40
3. 30
4. 7
Which word describes the boxed number?
1. Term
2. Variable
3. Equation
4. Coefficient
Based on the equation mat, what is the value for x ?
1. 2
2. 6
3. 22
4. 112
What is the solution to the following?
1. n = 6
2. n = 30
3. n = 42
4. n = 216
If the arithmetic pattern shown continues, what will be the 8th number?
1. 34
2. 30
3. 12
4. 6
Which of the following numbers is not a perfect square?
1. 49
2. 90
3. 121
4. 144
Which of the following is equivalent to 6×6×6×6×6 ?
This pattern repeats after the first four shapes.

What should be the 11th shape in this repeating pattern?
What number sentence is modeled by the shapes shown?
1. x + 4 =12
2. 4x =12
3. 4x = 3
4. x = 9
What is the 10th term in the increasing pattern shown?
1. 144
2. 89
3. 55
4. 34
Which could be the rule for the following pattern?
1. Divide the previous number by 10.
2. Multiply the previous number by 10.
3. Subtract 900 from the previous number.
4. Add 0.09 to the previous number.
Which of these is the variable in the number sentence 4x+3 = 8 ?
1. 4
2. 3
3. +
4. x