Grade 6 Math SOL Practice Test — Set 2 of 5
Set 2 of 5 — 50 more free Grade 6 Math SOL practice questions from official VDOE released tests.
1. Silas bought a bag of 12 muffins. There were 7 blueberry muffins and 3 banana muffins in the bag. The rest of the muffins were cranberry. What fractional part of the bag of muffins was cranberry?
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Answer: A — 1/6
2. Which number represents the product of 0.01 and 2.86?
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Answer: G — 0.0286
3. Look at the table. Cost of T-shirts Al’s T-shirt Shop: $6.99 per T-shirt T-shirt Connection: $7.49 per T-shirt How much more would a person pay for 4 T-shirts at T-shirt Connection than at Al’s T-shirt Shop?
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Answer: B — $2.00
4. What is the quotient of 4.48 ÷ 70?
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Answer: J — 0.064
5. A bicycle shop has 8 bicycles that sell for $298.75 each. Which is closest to the total cost of all the bicycles?
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Answer: D — $2,400
6. Look at the table. James’s Weekend Activities Cleaning bedroom: between 2 and 3 hours Washing dishes: between 1 and 4 hours Doing homework: between 3 and 4 hours Cleaning bathroom: between 1 and 3 hours Folding clothes: between 1 and 2 hours Which estimate is closest to the total amount of time James spends on weekend activities?
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Answer: G — 6 hours
7. A farmer has 6 cartons of specialty eggs for sale. Each carton contains 12 eggs. If 2/3 of the eggs are brown eggs, what is the total number of brown eggs he has for sale?
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Answer: C — 48
8. A carpet cleaning company charged $99.99 to clean 3 rooms in a house and $29.99 for each extra room. What is the total amount of money the company would charge to clean 5 rooms in the house?
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Answer: G — $159.97
9. Look at the table. Distance Frank Walked Monday: 3/4 mile Tuesday: 1 1/2 miles Wednesday: 2/3 mile According to the table, what is the total distance Frank walked for the three days?
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Answer: D — 2 11/12 miles
10. Seth bought a bag of pencils. 1/2 of the pencils are red. 1/6 of the pencils are blue. What fractional part of the bag of pencils is either red or blue?
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Answer: H — 2/3
11. Which is equivalent to 7/10?
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Answer: C — 70%
12. Which statement is not true?
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Answer: J — 4 < −9
13. A number line shows four labeled points arranged from left to right as S, Q, T, R. The least integer on the number line is at point S. Which point represents the least integer?
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Answer: C — S
14. Which list of numbers contains only common factors of 24 and 36?
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Answer: A — 2, 4, 6, 12
15. Which fraction has the same value as 0.6?
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Answer: H — 3/5
16. Look at the table. Camelia’s Grades A: 4 B: 3 C: 1 According to the table, what is the ratio of the number of A’s Camelia earned to the number of B’s she earned?
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Answer: D — 4:3
17. Which is true?
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Answer: H — 3/10 < 4/9
18. Three flat shapes are used to build a three-dimensional model with no overlapping: one rectangle and two congruent circles. What is the name of the model that could be made from the three shapes?
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Answer: D — Cylinder
19. What is the total number of quarts in 3 1/2 gallons?
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Answer: H — 14
20. Rory and Curtis are on the stage crew for the school play. The rectangular stage measures 20 feet by 40 feet. What is the minimum amount of tape they will need to outline the stage?
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Answer: B — 120 feet
21. Which measurement represents the greatest length?
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Answer: F — 6 feet
22. The diameter of a circle is 6 feet. Which is closest to the circumference of the circle?
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Answer: A — 18.84 ft
23. A scale shows the combined weight of 6 identical raisin boxes as approximately 250 grams. Which is closest to the weight of 1 raisin box?
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Answer: J — 42 grams
24. A ballet dancer stands with her feet forming an obtuse angle w. Which is most likely the measure of angle w?
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Answer: C — 115°
25. Which measurement represents a length shorter than 5 centimeters?
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Answer: J — 4 millimeters
26. Which figure has exactly one pair of parallel sides and two 90° angles?
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Answer: A — A right trapezoid
27. Point M is the center of a circle. Point N lies on the circle. The distance from M to N (the radius) is 21 cm. Which is closest to the area of the circle?
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Answer: H — 1,386 cm²
28. Sarah folded a net made of one square base with four congruent triangular faces attached, along dotted lines, to make a three-dimensional shape. Which best describes the shape Sarah made?
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Answer: D — Square pyramid
29. Which are the measures of the 3 angles of an equilateral triangle?
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Answer: H — 60°, 60°, 60°
30. Look at the table. Number of Customers at a Restaurant Monday: 134 Tuesday: 126 Wednesday: 115 Thursday: 108 Friday: 172 According to the table, what was the median number of customers?
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Answer: B — 126
31. A box-and-whisker plot shows a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 29. Which is most likely the range for the data?
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Answer: G — 14
32. The possible outcomes when rolling a pair of fair number cubes are listed. What is the probability of rolling the same number of dots on both number cubes on the first try?
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Answer: C — 6/36
33. Ginny’s video game collection by month is shown below: December: 4 January: 8 February: 12 March: 12 April: 12 May: 15 June: 18 Which statement is false about Ginny’s video game collection during this period?
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Answer: J — The number of video games increased by 1 from May to June.
34. The data below lists the number of pages in each book Harry read last summer. 225, 157, 144, 312, 281, 276, 166 What is the median of the data?
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Answer: C — 225
35. Look at the table. Continuing Education Class Enrollment Theater Arts: 8 Creative Writing: 6 Cooking: 11 Pottery: 12 Computer Animation: 13 According to the table, what is the mean number of students enrolled in a class?
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Answer: G — 10
36. Look at the table. Pastries in a Box Raspberry: 4 Blueberry: 3 Cream cheese: 6 Apple: 7 If Mark randomly chooses 1 pastry from the box, what is the probability that it will have a cream cheese filling?
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Answer: G — 30%
37. Based on the pattern shown, what is the value of 6⁶? 6¹ = 6 6² = 36 6³ = 216 6⁴ = 1,296
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Answer: D — 46,656
38. Which is a perfect square between 81 and 121?
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Answer: C — 100
39. Patty made a figure of 4 small squares arranged in a 2-by-2 square. She then increased the size by adding 1 row and 1 column each time, forming square figures (3-by-3, 4-by-4, 5-by-5, and so on). How many small squares will make up the 7th figure?
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Answer: F — 64
40. What value of z makes the number sentence true? z + 53 = 92
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Answer: D — 39
41. A pattern is made by repeating four shapes in this order: square, triangle, circle, star. If the pattern continues, what will be the 14th shape?
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Answer: J — Star
42. In the expression 2x + 5 = 9, the circled part is x. Which best describes x?
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Answer: A — Variable
43. Miss Jackson wrote this number sentence on the board: 7x = 36 Which procedure could be used to find a value for x that will make the number sentence true?
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Answer: H — Divide both sides by 7.
44. A balanced scale shows three x blocks on one side and twenty-one 1-unit blocks on the other side. Which equation represents the drawing?
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Answer: D — 3x = 21
45. The first term in the following pattern is 1. 1, 7, 19, 43, 91 Which rule could be used to get the next term in the pattern?
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Answer: F — Multiply by 2, then add 5.
46. Luanne stacked some checkers in a triangular shape. Each row has 1 less checker than the row below it. She made a stack starting with 8 checkers in the bottom row. How many total checkers were in the stack?
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Answer: D — 36
47. A balanced scale shows the left side with two x blocks and four 1-unit blocks. Which could be placed on the right side to keep the scale balanced?
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Answer: G — Two x blocks and four 1-unit blocks
48. Hayden has $20 to spend at the county fair. Admission to the fair is $5.00 per person, and tickets for food and games cost $1.25 per ticket. What information is needed to calculate the amount of money that Hayden will have left after attending the fair?
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Answer: C — The number of tickets he purchased
49. Amy bought three CDs for $15.34, $17.57, and $10.29, including sales tax. She gave the clerk $50.00. Which is closest to the amount of change Amy should receive?
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Answer: G — $7.00
50. What is 11.25 divided by 0.5?
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Answer: C — 22.5
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