6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

20. Use a 10
    10 grid to create a design
    that is 20% one color, 32% another
    color, and 5.5% a third color. Which
    percent of your design is notcolored?
    How do you know?

Use a strategy you have learned.

19. Out of every 9 students in the school
    activity club, there are 2 boys. If there
    are 35 girls in the activity club, how
    many boys are in it?

Write each ratio or rate in simplest form.

1. 4 to 8 2. 9 to 15 3. 20 : 30 4. 24 : 39

Find the missing term in each proportion.

5. 
   n
   9
   
   1
   1

0

5

 6. 

6

n



1

1

8

2

 7. n: 20.9 : 3

Write a proportion. Then solve.

8. A vertical meterstick casts a 6-m shadow
   while a telephone pole casts a 36-m shadow.
   How tall is the telephone pole?

Find the actual measurements.

9. Scale length: 1^34 in. 10. Scale width: 3.5 cm
   Scale: 1 in.20 yd Scale: 1 cm100 km

Write as a percent.

11. 2

3

5  12.0.47 13. 2.03 14.

7

8 

Write as a decimal and as a fraction (or mixed number)

in simplest form.

15.40% 16.0.02% 17. 475% 18.148%

Use <,
, or >to compare. Explain your answers.

21.15 : 100 16% 22. 49% 

1

5

0

1

0

 23.5.5% 

2

1

0

1

0

??? 

n

1 m^36 m

6 m

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