6th Grade Question Bank

6.RP.A1 Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio
relationship between two quantities.
6.RP.A2 Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b
+ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
1.) A laundry detergent is sold at four stores.
Store
Hawkins store
Dons Store
Allens Market
Value Market

Size (ounces)
60
54
48
40

Price
$6.50
$5.50
$5.61
$4.50

Which store has the lowest price per ounce?

6.RP.A3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real world and mathematical
problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double
number line diagrams, or equations.
1.) One serving of Mikes crackers has 150 calories and a mass of 30 grams. How many calories
are in 6 grams of the crackers?
a.) 5

b.) 10

c.) 25

d.) 30

2.) The ratio of nitrogen to potassium in a sample of soil is 12:9. The sample has 36 units of
nitrogen. How much potassium does the sample have?

3.) To clean a tank, cup of disinfectant is needed for every 2 gallons of water. How many cups
of disinfectant are needed for 20 gallons of water?
4.) A company that makes boxes finds that 3 out of 20 boxes are damaged. What percent of the
boxes are damaged?
5.) Jack drew a number line on his paper.

Jack drew a new point 45% of the distance from point E to point J. Between which two letters
does the new point lie?
a.) G and H

b.) I and J

c.) F and G

d.) H and I

6.) Valerie is 64 inches tall. About how many centimeters tall is Valerie? (1 inch = 2.5
centimeters)

a.) 25.6
180

b.) 30.6

c.) 160

d.)

7.) A landscape designer is planning the layout of trees in a park.

There are two types of trees: elm and pine

There should be at least 16 total trees but no more than 30.
The ratio of elm trees to pine trees will be 3:2

Which of the following could be the number of pine trees planted in the park?
a.) 6

b.) 8

c.) 9

d.) 14

6.NS.A1 Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems
involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and
equations to represent the problem.
1.) A rectangular parking lot has an area of 2/3 of a square kilometer. The width is of a
kilometer. What is the length, in kilometers, of the parking lot?
2.) A recipe requires lb of onions to make 3 servings of soup. Mark has 1 lb of onions. How
man servings can Mark make?
3.) A rectangular room has an area of 131 square feet. The length of the room is 12 feet.
What is the width, in feet, of the room?
4.) Allen is building birdhouses that require ft-long boards. How many pieces that are exactly
ft long can be made from a board that is 8 feet long?
5.) Juan has 7 cups of chopped nuts. He wants to make either banana nut muffins or carrot
muffins. The table shows how many cups of nuts are needed for each batch.
Muffin Type
Banana nut
Carrot

Chopped Nuts per Batch

cup
cup

a.) How many batches of banana nut muffins can Juan make if he makes only banana nut
muffins?

b.) How many batches of carrot muffins can Juan make if he makes only carrot muffins?

6.) The area of a rectangular piece of land is 6/10 square mile. One dimension of this piece of
land is mile.

6.NS.B2 Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm

6.NS.B3 Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the
standard algorithm for each operation.
1.) Joe will go to the swimming pool on 20 different days this month.

A one-day pass to the pool is $2.25

A monthly pass to the pool is $30.00

How much money will Joe save by buying a monthly pass?

2.) The price of a theater ticket increased from $7.50 to $7.75. The theater sold 315 tickets at
the higher price. With the price increase, how much more did the theater earn on the tickets?

3.) How much money should John get back when he uses $10.00 to pay for purchases totaling
$5.25?

4.) What is the product of 2.52 and 3.4

5.) At a store, Susan selected a pumpkin that weight 35.2 ounces.

Pumpkins cost $1.80 per pound.

There are 16 ounces in 1 pound.

How much did Susans pumpkin cost?

6.) Ms. Stone buys groceries for a total of $45.32. She now has $32.25 left. Which of the following
expressions could be used to find out how much money Ms. Stone had before going to the
grocery store.
a.) $45.32x = $32.25
b.) x - $45.32 = $32.25
c.) x + $45.32 = $32.25
d.) x + $32.25 = $45.32

6.) Put the following decimal expressions into the appropriate boxes:

Equal to 5.42

2.36 + 3.06

2.16 + 3.36

2.71 x 2

NOT Equal to
5.42

1.80 x 3

9.53 4.11

6.NS.B4 Find the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal
to 100 and the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 12.
Use the distributive property to express a sum of two whole numbers 1- 100 with a
common factor as a multiple of a sum of two whole numbers with no common factor.
1.) Marcy is taking two types of medicine.

She takes one medicine every 6 hours.

She takes the other medicine every 4 hours.
She takes both medicines at 9:00 a.m.

At what time will Marcy take both medicines again?

2.) Kate waters the garden every 3 days and weeds it every 4 days. She does both on April 2 nd.
What is the next date that she will both water and weed her garden? Use the calendar to help.

6.NS.C6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend the
number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent
points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates. Recognize
opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the
number line. Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in
quadrants of the coordinate plane. Find and position integers and other rational
numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.
6.NS.C7 Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers.
1.) Jeff recorded the average temperatures for six months. He will display the temperatures on a
number line.

Month
December
January
February
March
April
May

Temperature
-5
-16
-15
20
24
35

On the number line, which months temperature will be between Februarys and Marchs
temperatures?
a.) December

b.) January

c.) April

d.) May

2.) Which point on the number line represents the number -4 ?

a.) P

b.) Q

c.) R

d.) S

3.) This table shows the number of miles four friends travel to get to school.
Student
Andie
Helen
Michelle
Troy

Distance to School

1 8

1 3

1 9

1 9

Who travels the greatest distance to school?

a.) Andie

b.) Helen

c.) Michelle

d.) Troy

6.NS.C8 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four
quadrants of the coordinate plane. Include use of coordinates and absolute value to
find distances between points with the same first coordinate or the same second
coordinate.

1.) A trapezoid in a coordinate plane has vertices (-2, 5), (-3, -2), (2, -2), and (1, 5). What is the
height of the trapezoid.
a.) 3 units

b.) 5 units

c.) 7 units

d.) 9 units

2.) In the coordinate plane, what is the distance between (-3, 5) and (-3, -8)?
a.) 3 Units

b.) 6 units

c.) 8 units

d.) 13 units

3.) Jose is transferring this drawing of a triangular roof to a coordinate plane.

He plots point A at (-5, 2) and point B at (1, 6). The length of the base of the roof is 12 units in
length.
On the following coordinate plane, plot the coordinate of the roof and connect the three points.

6.EE.A1 Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number

exponents.

1.) What is the value of

1

7

2.) What is the greatest whole number less than

5

2

3

4

6.EE.A2 Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers.
6.EE.A6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a
real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an
unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified
set.
1.) Hannah babysits to earn money.

She charges $6.50 to babysit for the first hour.

She charges $5.75 for each additional hour.
Let N equal the number of hours after the first hour.

Which expression represents how much Hannah charges?

a.) 12.25n
5.75n

2.) What is the value of

b.) 6.50 + 5.75n

1 2
x 2
3

c.) 6.50n + 5.75

d.) 6.50n +

, when x = 3?

3.) Which can be represented by the expression 17 2x?

a.) 17 less than twice a number x
b.) The difference between 17 and twice a number x
c.) A number x squared, subtracted from 17
d.) 17 less than a number x squared
4.) If y 18 = 14, what is the value of 3(y + 5)?
a.) 27
b.) 32
c.) 96

d.) 111

5.) The length of a rectangle is 6 units longer than the width, w. Which choice is a correct
expression for the perimeter of the rectangle?
a.) 2w + 6
b.) 2w + 12
c.) 4w + 6
d.) 4w + 12

6.) Jane wants to visit her sister.

Her car travels x miles per gallon of gas.
She will travel 1,000 miles to her sisters house.
Gas costs $3.50 per gallon.
Which expression shows how much Jane will spend for gas on the trip to her sisters house?
a.) 1,000(3.50x)

b.) 3.50

1,000

1,000

c.) 3.50

3.50 x

d.) 1,000

7.) Place the following expressions in the table to tell whether each is equivalent to 8(t + 4) or 8t
+ 4. If an expression is not equivalent to either, do not place it in the table.

Equivalent to 8(t + 4)

(8 + t) + (8 + 4)
2)
4t + 4 + 4t

(8 x t) + (8 x 4) 8t + 12

Equivalent to 8t + 4

4(2t + 1)

8t + 32

2(4t +

6.EE.A3 Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.

6.EE.A4 Identify when two expressions are equivalent (i.e., when the two
expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into
them).
1.) Which expression is equivalent to 5y + 2y + 6x + 2y x?
a.) 5x + 6y

b..) 5x + 7y

c.) 5x + 9y

d.) 7x + 7y

2.) Which expression represents the perimeter of the triangle?

a.) 9k + 36

b.) 10k + 25

c.) 20k + 25

d.) 24k + 36

3.) Which choice is equivalent to the expression 4(x + 2y)?

a.) 4x + 8y

b.) 4x + 2y

c.) x + 8y

d.) 8xy

6.EE.A5 Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a

question: which values from a specified set, if any, make the equation or inequality

true? Use substitution to determine whether a given number in a specified set makes
an equation or inequality.
6.EE.B7 Solve real world and mathematical problems by writing and solving
equations of the form x + p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q, and x are all
nonnegative rational numbers.
1.) Heather earns $8.00 per hour for walking a dog. How many hours must she work to earn
$256.00?
2.) Diana can use the equation y = 7x to calculate pay, where y represents the amount of pay,
and x represents the number of hours worked. How many hours did Diana work if she was paid
$45.50?

6.EE.B8 Write an equality of the form x > c or x < c to represent a constraint or

condition in a real-world or mathematical problem. Recognize that inequalities of the
form x > c or x < c have infinitely many solutions; represent solutions of such
inequalities on number line diagrams.
1.) Suppose that a stove and a freezer together weigh at least 370 pounds. The weight of the
stove is 170 pounds. Which inequality correctly describes these conditions for the weight of the
freezer, f?
a.) f 200

b.) f > 200

c.) f 200

d.) f < 200

6.EE.C9 Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that

change in a relationship to one another; write an equation to express one quantity,
thought of as the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, thought of as
the independent variable. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and
independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation.
1.) Karen recorded her walking place pace in the table below. What equation best represents this
relatioships?
Hours
Walked
2.5
4
a.) h = m + 10

b.) h = 3.5m

Miles Walked
8.75
14
c.) m = h + 10

d.) m = 3.5

6.SP.B.4 Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots,
histograms, and box plots.
6.SP.B5 Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context
1.) What choice shows a set of data that could be represented by the box plot shown below?

a.) 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 13, 19, 20

b.) 1, 3, 5, 6, 6, 8, 13, 14, 19, 20
c.) 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 8, 13, 19, 20
d.) 1, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 13, 19, 20

2.) The data below represents the numbers of books that twelve students read.
2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 30, 32
Which box plot correctly summarizes the data?

3.) Which box plot represents a set of data with the largest interquartile range?

4.) Katherine earned 84, 92, 84, 75, and 70 on her first 5 tests. What is the minimum grade
Katherine needs to earn on the next test to have a mean of 84?

5.) The weather station recorded the high temperature each day for 30 days. The graph of the
temperature data is shown below.

In which interval is the median temperature?

a.) 41 50

b.) 51 60

c.) 61 70

d.) 71 - 80

6.) The following are lengths in inches of twelve fish caught in one day: 11, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14,
14, 15, 15, 16, 16
Use the following image to create a dot plot of the data.

7.) Look at the box-and-whisker plot of pumpkin weights.

What is the median pumpkin weight?

a.) 12 lb

b.) 14 lb.

c.) 15 lb.

d.) 16 lb.

6.GA.1 Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and
polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other
shapes; apply these techniques in the context of the solving real-world and
mathematical problems.

6.GA.3 Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices;
use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first
coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of
solving real-world and mathematical problems.
1.) The shaded area indicates the parking lot at a shopping center.

What is the total area of the parking lot?

a.) 72 units2
units2

b.) 86 units2

c.) 91 units2

d,) 120

2.) What is the area of the quadrilateral with vertices (-1, 0), (2, 0), (2, 5), and (-1, 5)?
a.) 15 square units
units

b.) 12 square units

c.) 10 square units

3.) The Wilsons want to put outdoor carpet on their porch.

How much carpet will be needed for their porch?

4.) In the graph below, each grid square represents one square yard.

d.) 5 square

What is the area of the shaded figure?

a.) 20
b.) 30
c.) 36
d.) 40

yd2
yd2
yd2
yd2

5.) The trapezoid shown below is divided into a right triangle and a rectangle.

Write an expression that could be used to determine the area of the trapezoid.

6.GA.2 Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by
packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, and show
that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the
prism. Apply the formulas V = l w h and V = b h to find volumes of right rectangular
prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and
mathematical problems.
1.) The right rectangular prism below is made up of 8 cubes. Each cube has an edge length of
inch.

What is the volume of this prism?

a.) 1 cubic inch

inches

b.) 2 cubic inches

c.) 4 cubic inches

d.) 8 cubic

2.) What is the volume of the right rectangular prism below?

a.) 4

cubic inches

b.) 4

cubic inches

c.( 3

cubic inches

d.) 2

cubic inches

3.) Micah constructs a rectangular prism with a volume of 360 cubic units. The height of his
prism is 10 units. Micah claims that the prism must be a square. What is the length of the sides
of the base?

4.) Tana fills the prism shown with 110 in 3 of liquid. What is the height of the liquid in the
prism?

a.) 5.5

b.) 6.5

c.) 7.5

d.) 8.5

6.GA.4 Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and

triangles, and use the nets to find the surface area of these figures. Apply these
techniques in the context of solving real-world mathematical problems.

1.) The net of a triangular right prism is shown below.

What is the surface area of the prism?

a.) 204 in.2

b.) 228 in.2

c.) 240 in.2

d.) 288 in.2

2.) Abby is making a decoration. When folded, the decoration is a triangular pyramid made of
four congruent equilateral triangles. Approximately, what is the surface area of Abbys
decoration?

a.) 64 in2

b.) 85 in2

c.) 97 in2

d.) 170 in2