6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Solve. Combine strategies to help you.

0 1. A business office mailed 24 packages last week.

Each package weighed 1
^12 
lb. For every 3 packages

mailed special delivery, 5 packages were bulk rate.

How many packages were mailed special delivery?

Visualize yourself in the problem above as

you reread it. List the facts and the question.

Facts: 24 packages mailed

1 


1

2 
lb — weight of each package

packages — 3 special delivery

5 bulk rate

Question:How many packages were

mailed special delivery?

This is a multistep problemand it contains

extra information. Use more than one step.

First find the sum of 3 5, then write and

solve a proportion.



n

24

3

sum

special

delivery

total

0 2. Ann’s birthday is a dozen days after Ron’s. Ron’s birthday

is in May but it is after May 15th. The sum of the digits of the

date is 5 and it falls on a Sunday. What is the day and date

of Ann’s birthday?

0 3. The ratio of the length of a side of square AXRDto the

length of a side of square TVBNis 2 to 7. If the perimeter

of TVBNis 84 cm, what is the area of each square?

0 4. Of the 630 students at South School, three fifths are girls. Four

out of every 7 boys can swim. How many boys can swim?

0 5. Brittany mailed this puzzle to a math magazine.

Solve the problems she made up.

a.What is the ratio of the sum of the numbers

outside the parallelogram to the sum of the

numbers inside the circle?

b.What is the missing number if the ratio of the

missing number to the sum of the numbers

inside the parallelogram equals 40%?

5 7

? 3

4

2

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