6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Choose a strategy from the list or use another

strategy you know to solve each problem.

12. Tami’s cookie jar has 8 oatmeal cookies,
    5 lemon cookies, and 3 raisin cookies. What
    is the probability of selecting a lemon cookie
    in one random draw from the cookie jar?


13. Hanley’s has
    ^78
    bushel of peaches when the
    farm stand opens in the morning. By noon,
    ^14
    
    of the peaches are left. What part of the bushel
    of peaches was sold in the morning?


14. The stand sells
    
    1
    2
    
    quart of berries for $1.49.
    Do 2
    
    3
    4
    
    quarts of berries cost more
    than $10?

15.Lynn’s snack bag contains only red and green grapes.

The number of green grapes is 5 more than the number

of red grapes. If the probability of randomly selecting a

green grape is , how many red grapes are in the

bag? green grapes?

16. A customer buys a 2
    ^58
    -lb melon for $1.05.
    Would a 4
    ^12
    -lb melon cost more than $2?


17. By 11 A.M. Kathy had sold
    ^16
    of the 5-lb bags of pears. Between
    11 A.M. and 4 P.M. she sold 2 dozen more bags. If she had 11 bags
    left at 4 P.M., how many bags did she have when the stand opened?

Use the diagram for problems 18 –20.

Anne, Bill, Carol, Derek, and Emmy each bought berries.

18. Who bought only strawberries?


19. How many people bought raspberries?


20. Who bought both strawberries and raspberries?


21. Make up your own problem modeled on problem 16
    above. Then have a classmate solve it.

Strawberries Raspberries

Anne

Bill Derek

Carol

Emmy

Use These Strategies

Use More Than One Step

Use Simpler Numbers

Use a Diagram

Work Backward

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