6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Explain how you solved the

problem. Show all your work.

7. In a random survey of 60
   students, said they walk to
   school. Based on this sample,
   how many of the 350 students in
   the school do not walk to school?

2

5

Use a strategy you have learned.

6. Carrie has 4 pennies dated 1976, 1971,
   1966, and 1962. How many different ways
   can she arrange the pennies in a row so
   that the two pennies made in the 1970s
   are not next to each other?

Use the table for exercises 1–3.

1. Organize the data in a cumulative
   frequency table with 5 intervals.


2. Find the relative frequency
   of each interval.


3. Make a line plot, a stem-and-leaf plot,
   a histogram, and a box-and-whisker plot of the data.

Make a double line graph.

4. 
   
   
   
   5. Find the mean, median, and
      mode of the number of books
      sold each month in exercise 4.
      Which best describes the data?
      Explain.
   
   
   
   

31 20 38 31 24 30 12 38

20 18 36 34 21 33 38 36

34 23 39 30 43 30 31 28

Pages Read: Grade 6

Month Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr.

History 100 125 100 90

Psychology 175 180 170 120

Number of Books Sold

Survey: Number of Dogs Owned

3rd grade

4th grade

5th grade

6th grade

Key: Each 
2 dogs.

Use the pictograph for problems 8–9.

8. If the number of dogs owned
   by 6th graders increases by 6
   and the number owned by 5th
   graders decreases by 5, what
   would be the total number of
   dogs owned by all students?


9. Name three things that affect
   the accuracy of the survey.

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