6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

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Choose a strategy from the list or use another

strategy you know to solve each problem.

Use These Strategies

Write an Equation

Guess and Test

Use a Graph

Use More Than One Step

Applications: Mixed Review

1. Blanca has collected 59 boxes of paper clips.
   The paper clips in each box make a chain about
   312 in. long. Does Blanca have enough clips to
   make a mile-long chain? (Hint:1 mi = 63,360 in.)


2. Newgate School makes a chain with 12,250
   paper clips and rubber bands. The chain
   uses four times more paper clips than rubber
   bands. How many paper clips does the chain
   use? how many rubber bands?


3. Each rubber band in the Newgate chain is 5 cm long.
   How many rubber bands are in a length of chain
   that measures 1695 cm?


4. A team of 18 students collects paper clips. The team
   collects an average of 375 paper clips per student.
   How many paper clips did the entire team collect?


5. Cathy and Bill spent $8.89 on rubber bands. Each box
   cost $1.27, and Cathy bought 3 more boxes than Bill.
   How many boxes of rubber bands did each student buy?

Use the graph for problems 6–8.

6. Sue bought 27 boxes of medium
   paper clips and 10 boxes of super
   paper clips. How many paper clips
   in all did she buy?


7. Would 40 boxes of large paper clips
   and 12 boxes of small paper clips
   be more than 15,000 paper clips?


8. Which is the greater quantity:
   35 boxes of large paper clips or
   25 boxes of medium paper clips?

Average Number of

Paper Clips per Box

Number of Paper Clips

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Size of Paper Clips

Small Medium Large Super

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