6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Solve. Combine strategies to help you.

11. Ann and Greg each made lemonade. Ann used
    10 lemons for every 1 quart of water. Greg used
    5 lemons for every pint of water. Did the two
    friends use equal ratios of lemons to water?


12. The ratio of beans to rice in a recipe is 3 : 4.
    Jake cooks 2 cups of rice and 5 pounds of
    chicken. How many cups of beans should
    he use?


13. The class has 18 baking sheets. Each sheet
    holds 1 dozen cookies. A batch of cookie
    batter makes 3 dozen cookies. The class
    fills all of the sheets with cookies. Then
    they sell bags of 6 cookies each at a
    bake sale. How many bags of cookies
    did they make?


14. Lindsey and her sisters are baking pies to
    take to their family reunion. They plan to bake
    one cherry pie and two apple pies for every 14
    people attending. How many pies will they
    bake for 126 people?


15. Tara made some snack bars. She ate
    8 of them. She gave Paul 50% of the
    bars that were left. Then she had 11 bars.
    How many snack bars did she make?

Use the circle graph for problems 16–19.

16. What part of the trail mix is raisins?


17. What is the ratio of apricots to raisins?


18. Sue makes a batch of trail mix using 1 cup of
    granola. Will she use more than
    
    1
    2
    cup of apricots?


19. Use the data in the circle graph to write
    a problem. Then solve it.

Use These Strategies

Write an Equation

Use a Graph

Use More Than One Step

Work Backward

Make a Table

10%

15% 15%

25%

35%

Apricots

Sunflower Seeds

Trail Mix Ingredients

Peanuts

Raisins

Granola

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