6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Use a strategy from the list or another

strategy you know to solve each problem.

11. A train set has 40 six-inch-long pieces of track
    and 8 nine-inch-long pieces. What is the
    longest track you can build with this set?


12. Pam’s train can travel one fourth of the
    track in 25.48 seconds. If the train continues
    at the same rate of speed, how long will it
    take to travel the entire track?


13. Daryll spends $6.08 for three signs for the
    train set. None of the signs costs the same
    amount, but each sign costs more than $2.
    What is the price of each sign?


14. Train A travels 1387.5 cm uphill at a rate of 55.5
    cm per second. Train B travels 1372.5 cm
    downhill at a rate of 54.9 cm per second.
    Which train arrives at its destination first?


15. Mai builds a mountain for her train set. She uses 2.4 yd
    of green cloth as grass, 1.75 yd of white cloth as snow,
    and 0.8 yd of brown cloth as dirt roads. Does Mai use
    more than 4.5 yd of cloth?

Use the graph for problems 16–19.

16. About how many minutes of travel
    time is the State Capital Tour?


17. About how many minutes of travel
    time should Kim allow if she is
    taking the Rush Hour Express and
    then going on the Park Nature Tour?


18. About how many more minutes of
    travel time will Theresa spend on
    the River Valley Tour than Bob will
    spend on the Beach Getaway?


19. Make up a problem using the bar graph data.
    Have a classmate solve it.

Use These Strategies

Write an Equation

Use More Than One Step

Use a Graph

Guess and Test

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River

Valley

Tour

State

Capital

Tour

Rush

Hour

Express

Trains

Park

Nature

Tour

Beach

Getaway

Minutes

Average Train Travel Time

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