Title: 6th Grade Math Mock Milestone Section 1

1. What is the median of the following set of numbers?

155, 163, 171, 155, 140, 193, 184, 214, 184, 205
A. 177.5
B. 184
C. 74
D. 176.4

2. A group of volunteers has been collecting toys to deliver to an orphanage. Over the last 4 days, the volunteers
have collected 352 toys. What has been their collection rate, in toys per day?

A. 91 toys per day

B. 87 toys per day
C. 89 toys per day
D. 88 toys per day

3. The dot plot below shows the number of movies rented last month by students in Ms. Underwood's class.

What is the median number of movies rented?

A. 4
B. 3
C. 6
D. 2

4.
What is the area of the object above?
A. 72 cm2
B. 62 cm2
C. 24 cm2
D. 14 cm2

5. Which of the following best represents a bank account balance of $0?

A. owing money to the bank account

B. money in the bank account
C. no money in the bank account

6.

A.

B.

C.

D.

7. The table below shows the number of pets each student owns. Which histogram matches the table?
 Number of Pets 0-1 2-3 4-5 6-7
Number of Students 6 4 2 2

A.

B.

C.

D.

8.
 Note: Figure is not drawn to scale.

If x = 9 units and h = 6 units, then what is the area of the triangle shown above?
A. 18 square units
B. 81 square units
C. 54 square units
D. 27 square units

9. Kyle measured the length, width, and height of a donut box after all the donuts had been eaten. His
measurements are shown below.

*Picture not drawn to scale

What is the volume of the donut box?

A.

B.

C.

D.

10. What is the mean of the following set?

37, 35, 31, 33, 34

A. 27
B. 34.25
C. 34
D. 43.25

11.

4b2 + 6b - 25

Which of the following describes 4 in the expression above?

 A. sum
B. product
C. quotient
D. coefficient

12. What is the opposite of 4?

A. 8
B. 0
C. -8
D. -4

13. From the set {6, 9, 81}, use substitution to determine which value of x makes the inequality true.

3x < 27
A. 9
B. 81
C. 6
D. none of these

14. Simplify the following expression.

17.797 - 17.75
A. 0.051
B. 0.47
C. 0.479
D. 0.047

15. What is the greatest common factor (GCF) of 72 and 96?

A. 24
B. 8
C. 9
D. 12

16. What is the absolute value of the number indicated on the number line below?

-12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0

A. -9
B. 9
C. -8
D. 8
17. Which value for x makes the sentence true?

7.21 + x = 9.82
A. 2.61
B. 17.13
C. 17.03
D. 2.5

18.

What are the coordinates of the point labeled E?

A. (-8, 1)
B. (1, 8)
C. (8, 1)
D. (1, -8)

19.

Add 4 and b. Then, multiply by 3.

Which of the following expressions matches the statement above?

4 (3 + b)
A.
b+43
B.
(4 + b) 3
C.
D. 4+b3
20.

Which figure can be created from the pattern above?

A. hexagonal pyramid
B. square pyramid
C. rectangular prism
D. square prism

21. Which algebraic expression is equivalent to the expression below?

6(2x - 5)
A. 12x + 30
B. 6x - 7
C. 12x - 30
D. 6x - 1

22. Meg has 14 feet of ribbon that she wants to divide into of a foot pieces. How many of a foot pieces are
there in 14 feet?

A. 14
 B. 35
C. 140
D. 70

23.

Ages

The ages of 8 different students in a college math class were used to make the box plot shown above. Which of
the following numbers below is the median of the ages?

A. 20.5
B. 22.5
C. 21.5
D. 24.5

24. Evaluate the expression below at x = 3.

A. 64
B. 47
C. 587
D. 712

25.

Note: Figure is not drawn to scale.

If x = 7 units, y = 5 units, and h = 4 units, then what is the area of the parallelogram shown above?
A. 35 square units
B. 24 square units
C. 20 square units
D. 28 square units
26. Simplify the following expression.

2.7907 0.473
A. 5.99
B. 4.8
C. 2.3177
D. 5.9

27. Mrs. Moore has 84 pieces of candy to split among s students. Which expression shows how many pieces of
candy each student will receive?

A. 84 s
B. 84 + s
C. 84 - s
D. 84 s

28. The ratio of french fries to packets of ketchup in Philip's bag is 6:1. What does this mean?

A. For every 6 packets of ketchup, there is 1 french fry.

B. There are 6 more french fries than packets of ketchup.
C. There are 5 more french fries than packets of ketchup.
D. For every 6 french fries, there is 1 packet of ketchup.

29. The scores of seven people playing a card game are listed below.

58, 93, 113, 82, 133, 69, 145

What is the interquartile range of the scores?

A. 24
B. 87
C. 99
D. 64

30. Karen is moving into a new house. She has a lot of books that she wants to pack in small moving boxes.
The dimensions of one of these moving boxes is shown below.

*Picture not drawn to scale

What is the volume of the small moving box?
A.

B.

C.

D.

31. A fish tank has 9 goldfish, 6 tetras, 4 snails, and 3 platies. What is the ratio of tetras to platies?

A.

B.

C.

D.

32. The lowest point of Death Valley is at an elevation of -282 feet. Which of the following best describes -282
feet?

A. 282 feet above sea level

B. 141 feet below sea level
C. 141 feet above sea level
D. 282 feet below sea level

33.
At the end of school, Josh's teacher handed out 24 coupons for bowling during the summer to each student. The
third week of summer, he accidentally threw away 15 of them when he cleaned his room. The last week of
summer, he decided to use the remaining coupons evenly over 3 days.

If he did not use any of the coupons until the last week of summer, how many coupons did he use on each of the
3 days?

A. 5
B. 8
C. 13
D. 3
34. At Crescent High School, 120 students plan on going to an in-state college and 70 students plan on going to
an out-of-state college. What is the ratio of students planning on going to an in-state college to students
planning on going to an out-of-state college?

A. 12:7
B. 1:120
C. 7:12
D. 120:1

35. From the set {1, 3, 5}, use substitution to determine which value of x makes the equation true.

10x + 8 = 38
A. 1
B. 3
C. none of these
D. 5

Constructive Response #1:

A local radio station had a contest to see who could guess closest to the actual number of jellybeans that filled a
small car. The number of jellybeans that were in the car was 785,000. The radio station used bags that
contained 800 jellybeans each and dumped the jellybeans in the car until is was full.

Randall and Susie had an argument about how many bags the radio station had to use to fill the car. Randall
claimed the radio station needed more than 981 bags. Susie claimed that the radio station used exactly 981
bags to fill the car.

Who is correct? Explain by finding exactly how many bags of jellybeans the radio station used to fill the car.

Constructive Response#2

: Use a piece of scratch paper to write calculations or expressions to help you write your response. Then,
type your response in the box.

Mr. Howard wrote the following expressions on the board in order to determine which expressions are
equivalent and how they are equivalent.

60x + 24 3(20x + 8) 4(15x + 6)

Explain which of these expressions are equivalent using properties of operations, and then determine how other
equivalent expressions could be created using the same properties. Provide at least two examples.

End of Section 1

Answers
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. D
9. A
10. C
11. D
12. D
13. C
14. D
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. B
21. C
22. B
23. B
24. B
25. D
26. D
27. A
28. D
29. D
30. C
31. D
32. D
33. D
34. A
35. B
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