2016 STAAR Grade 6 Math

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52 Questions
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1.

Frank had $65. He spent $2 per day for 7 days. Then he was given $9 to divide equally between himself and his 2 brothers. The following expression can be used to find the amount of money Frank had after that.
65 - 2 ⋅ 7 + 9 ÷ 3

Based on this expression, what is the amount of money Frank had remaining?

6.7.A
2.

A baby weighed 7.25 lb at birth. At the end of 8 months, the baby weighed 2\frac{1}{2} times its birth weight. How many pounds did the baby weigh at the end of 8 months?

6.3.E
3.

Hector surveyed all the sixth graders at his school about their favorite after-school activity. The table shows the results that were used to make a bar graph.


Which percentage bar graph best represents the data?

6.12.D
4.

A barrel contained 60 gallons of water. Water leaked out of the barrel at a rate of 5 gallons every 3 days.


At this rate, how many days did it take for all 60 gallons of water to leak out of the barrel?

6.4.B
5.

Four points are graphed on the coordinate grid.


Which ordered pair does not appear to be represented by one of these points?

6.11
6.

A carpenter wants to cut a board that is 5/6 ft long into pieces that are 5/16 ft long. The carpenter will use the expression shown to calculate the number of pieces that can be cut from the board.

\frac{5}{6}\div \frac{5}{16}

Which expression can also be used to calculate the number of pieces that can be cut from the board?

6.3.A
7.

The rectangle below represents the base of a rectangular prism. Use the ruler provided to measure the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest centimeter.


The height of the rectangular prism is 12 centimeters. What is the volume of the rectangular prism?

6.8.D
8.

Students recorded the amount of liquid in fluid ounces each of them drank in one day. The box plot shows the summary of the results.


Which statement best describes the data represented in the box plot?

6.13.A
9.

Which two expressions are equivalent?

6.7.D
10.

Mr. Smith has a maximum of $50 to spend at a museum. A ticket to the museum costs $7. He can spend p dollars to buy other things at the museum. Which inequality can be used to find the possible values for p?

6.9.A
11.

Mrs. Torres is mailing a package that weighs 12.5 pounds. The post office charges by the ounce to mail a package. How much does the package weigh in ounces?

6.4.H
12.

A team of four players competed in a golf contest. The names and scores of the players on the team are shown in the table. The team’s score is the sum of all the scores in the table.


What is the team’s score?

6.3.D
13.

A farmer watered 3/8 of a field. What percentage is equivalent to the fraction of the field the 8 farmer watered?

6.4.G
14.

The graph shows the amount of money earned by an employee based on the time he spent working.


Which list shows the dependent quantities in the graph?

6.6.A
15.

The table shows the amount of time four students practiced the trumpet one day.


Which list shows the names of the students in order from the least amount of practice time to the greatest amount of practice time?

6.2.D
16.

In triangle FGH shown below, what is the measure of \angleF in degrees?


Record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.

6.8.A
17.

The list shows the number of licenses issued every year to lobster boats in Massachusetts for a five-year period.
551, 554, 529, 534, 530
What is the range of these data?

6.12.C
18.

Holly bought a magazine subscription for a year. She paid $27. Holly wanted to find the price, p, of the subscription each month. She created the model shown to help find this price.


What was the price of the subscription each month?

6.10.A
19.

Alyssa will correctly label the numbers 48.4, 48\frac{1}{2}, 48.09, and 48\frac{3}{5} on the number line below.


Which number will be located closest to 49?

6.2.C
20.

Which statement describes the relationship between x and y in these two equations?

y = 2x
y = x + 2

6.4.A
21.

The table shows the monthly fees for the checking accounts at two banks.


Which statement is best supported by the information in the table?

6.14.A
22.

As part of a survey, 300 girls were asked to name their favorite sport. The results showed that 12 of the girls named bowling as their favorite sport. What percentage of the girls in the survey named bowling as their favorite sport?

6.5.B
23.

A county with an area of 425 square miles has a population of 9,350 residents. Which rate best represents the relationship between the population of the county and the area of the county?

6.4.D
24.

The table shows the relationship between d, the amount of money Alice has at the beginning of each day, and w, the amount of money she has after riding the bus to work.


Which equation represents the relationship in the table?

6.6.B
25.

This shaded model represents 100%.


Which model represents 33\frac{1}{3}%?

6.4.F
26.

The table below shows the relationship between the perimeter and area of four squares.


Which equation can be used to find A, the area of a square that has a perimeter of P units?

6.8.C
27.

The line plot shows the number of pounds of fish eaten by each dolphin at a zoo.


Which stem and leaf plot best represents the data in the line plot?

6.12.A
28.

A meteorologist at a television station reported that a town received 0.95 in. of rain. Which fraction is equivalent to this amount of rain in inches?

6.4.G
29.

The table shows the average annual salary for four jobs.


Based on this information, how much more will an elevator technician make than a librarian over 10 years?

6.14.H
30.

A teacher wrote this expression on the board.

(-6)(2) + ( - 8 ÷ 4)

What is the value of this expression?

Record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.

6.3.D
31.

Which equation has a solution of 2/3 for n?

6.10.B
32.

Which graphic organizer correctly groups the following numbers?

3.4 -2 3 1.2

6.2.A
33.

Which situation cannot be represented by the equation x + 10 = 45?

6.9.C
34.

The dot plot shows the number of chess games won by each of the 20 students in a competition.


Which statement about the data is true?

6.12.C
35.

The shaded area on the grid represents the part of a rectangular wall that was painted. Each small square on the wall has the same dimensions.


What percentage of the wall was painted?

6.4.E
36.

Before Nina bought groceries on April 22, she had a balance of $487.25 in her checking account. Nina wrote her transactions in her check register. She included all her transactions through the end of the day on April 23.


Based on the transactions in Nina’s check register, what is the balance in dollars and cents in her checking account at the end of the day on April 23?

Record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.

6.14.C
37.

Which table shows only values that represent the following relationship between q and r?

r = q + 10.1

6.6.C
38.

A recipe for cookies requires 2/3 cup of butter. Rama wants to make 3/4 of the recipe.
How many cups of butter should Rama use to make the cookies?

6.3.E
39.

A robot’s height is 1 meter 20 centimeters. How tall is the robot in millimeters?

6.4.H
40.

Aiden asked a group of students to choose their favorite type of music from the choices of rock, hip-hop, and country. The results of the survey are shown in the graph.


Based on the graph, how many students in a class of 360 students would be expected to choose hip-hop or rock as their favorite type of music?

6.4.B
41.

Benisha graphed point G on the coordinate grid. She will graph point H at a location 5 units away from point G.


Which ordered pair could represent the location of point H?

6.11
42.

A restaurant offered cooking classes on 24 of the 30 days in November. What decimal is equivalent to the fraction of days in November that classes were offered at the restaurant?

Record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.

6.4.G
43.

Shemar bought a bag of marbles. He took the marbles out of the bag one at a time. He recorded the color of each marble in this tally chart.


In which table do the percentages represent the relative frequency of these marble colors?

6.12.D
44.

The cost of downloading one song from a website is $0.99. Which equation can be used to find t, the cost in dollars of downloading n songs?

6.6.C
45.

Students in Mrs. Guerro’s class must complete at least 40 math problems for homework every week. The table shows the progress of four students on Wednesday.


Which list shows the amounts of homework completed in order from greatest to least?

6.2.D
46.

What is the prime factorization of 110?

6.7.A
47.

In 2012 there were approximately 8,950 public libraries in the United States. A survey found that 76% of those libraries offered free access to electronic books. Based on this information, how many public libraries offered free access to electronic books in 2012?

6.5.B
48.

Ms. Chen will paint a triangular tile. A drawing of the tile is shown. Use the ruler provided to measure the dimensions of the tile to the nearest centimeter.


Which measurement is closest to the area of the tile in square centimeters?

6.8.D
49.

A choir director made a histogram showing the ages of the members of the choir.


Which statement about the data in the histogram must be true?

6.13.A
50.

A student needs to collect at least 10 flowers for a science project. The student has already collected 3 flowers. The inequality shown can be used to find n, the number of flowers the student still needs.

n + 3 ≥ 10

Which inequality represents the solution set for this situation?

6.10.A
51.

To make pink paint, Sylvia mixes 7 cups of white paint to every 3 cups of red paint. Which table shows possible values of w, the number of cups of white paint Sylvia uses, and r, the number of cups of red paint?

6.5.A
52.

Which two expressions are equivalent?

6.7.D