Grade 6 Math SOL Practice Test — Set 3 of 5
Set 3 of 5 — 50 more free Grade 6 Math SOL practice questions from official VDOE released tests.
1. Donna collected 3 1/5 pounds of newspaper. Darcy collected 2 1/4 pounds of newspaper. What was the total amount of newspaper they collected?
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Answer: G — 5 9/20 pounds
2. In her shopping cart, Jody has 2 pounds of oranges at $0.99 per pound, 3 cans of soup at $1.19 per can, and 1 gallon of ice cream at $3.79 per gallon. Which is closest to the total cost of the items in her shopping cart?
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Answer: A — $9.00
3. What is 0.64 ÷ 0.008?
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Answer: G — 80
4. Which fraction is equivalent to (5/6) ÷ (1/3)?
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Answer: D — 2 1/2
5. Gwen purchased the following items before tax: 5 sketchpads at $2.99 each 2 paintbrushes at $5.99 each 1 box of chalk at $15.99 Which method could be used to determine the total amount of money Gwen spent before tax?
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Answer: F — Multiply the cost per item by the number of items, then add the products.
6. Jasmine’s recipe requires 2/3 cup of flour. She has only 1/2 cup of flour in the pantry. How much more flour does she need?
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Answer: D — 1/6 cup
7. The prices for CDs at four different stores are listed below: Budget Buy: 4 CDs for $30.00 CD City: 2 CDs for $15.99 Music Mall: 3 CDs for $21.99 Shop Smart: 1 CD for $8.99 Which store has the lowest price per CD?
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Answer: H — Music Mall
8. A prime number can best be described as —
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Answer: B — a number with exactly 2 different factors
9. What is the greatest common factor of 18 and 33?
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Answer: J — 3
10. Which decimals are ordered from least to greatest?
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Answer: B — 0.009, 0.05, 0.8, 1.0
11. Sam owns a canoe rental company with 120 boats. He has 55 wood boats, and the rest are fiberglass. What is the ratio of wood boats to fiberglass boats?
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Answer: A — 55:65
12. Which is a composite number?
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Answer: F — 49
13. Which percent is equivalent to 3/5?
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Answer: D — 60%
14. Which digit could be found in the ones place of an odd number?
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Answer: G — 1
15. Which is closest to the area of a classroom bulletin board?
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Answer: A — 2,000 square inches
16. Four angles share a common vertex H. One ray extends from H to point Q. Rays from Q extend to points A, B, D, and E. Which angle has a measure closest to 90°?
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Answer: G — ∠HQB
17. How many ounces are equivalent to 25 pounds?
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Answer: D — 400 ounces
18. Nikki drew a sketch of the floor plan of her home. Bedroom 1 and the family room appear to be the same shape and size. Other rooms differ in shape or size. Which two rooms appear to be congruent?
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Answer: F — Bedroom 1 and Family Room
19. A wheel has a radius of 67.5 meters. Which is closest to the circumference of this wheel? (Use π ≈ 3.14.)
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Answer: B — 423.9 m
20. What is equivalent to 3 gallons?
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Answer: J — 12 quarts
21. What is the area of a triangle with a base of 12 cm and a height of 8 cm?
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Answer: C — 48 cm²
22. What number of feet equals 24 yards?
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Answer: H — 72
23. In quadrilateral WXYZ, three interior angles are given: ∠XWZ = 116°, ∠ZYX = 42°, and ∠WXZ is unknown. What is the measure of ∠WZY?
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Answer: A — 112°
24. Which of the following shapes is not a parallelogram?
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Answer: A — Trapezoid
25. If a data set has an odd number of data values and is arranged in numerical order, the middle value represents the —
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Answer: A — median
26. Of 200 visitors to a state park, a circle graph shows that hiking represents approximately one-quarter of the responses. Which is closest to the number of visitors who said hiking was their favorite activity?
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Answer: H — 50 visitors
27. A box-and-whisker plot of test scores shows a minimum of 70, a first quartile of 80, a median of 85, a third quartile of 90, and a maximum of 100. Which statement is true?
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Answer: C — The median test score is 85.
28. A bag contains 4 red, 5 green, 3 blue, and 6 yellow tiles. One tile is selected at random. What is the probability the tile is blue?
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Answer: J — 1/6
29. The number of tickets sold was 36 on Thursday, 25 on Friday, 18 on Saturday, and 33 on Sunday. What is the mean number of tickets sold over these four days?
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Answer: C — 28
30. A stem-and-leaf plot shows distances students live from school. The largest value shown is 15 miles. Which conclusion is true?
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Answer: F — Five students live 1 mile from the school.
31. A graph shows U.S. Internet use (in millions) from 1997 to 2003. The smallest increase occurs between 2002 and 2003. Between which two years did the smallest increase occur?
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Answer: J — 2002 and 2003
32. What value of m makes the number sentence true? m − 5 = 35
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Answer: B — 40
33. Which word describes the boxed number in the expression 8x = y?
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Answer: J — Coefficient
34. An equation mat shows that six groups of x equal 12, with each unit represented as 1. What is the value of x?
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Answer: B — 6
35. What is the solution to the equation n/6 = 36?
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Answer: J — n = 216
36. If the arithmetic pattern continues as shown: 54, 48, 42, 36, … what will be the 8th number?
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Answer: C — 12
37. Which of the following numbers is not a perfect square?
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Answer: G — 90
38. Which of the following is equivalent to 6 × 6 × 6 × 6 × 6?
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Answer: C — 6⁵
39. Shapes show four identical groups equal to 12, where each group represents x. What number sentence is modeled?
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Answer: B — 4x = 12
40. What is the 10th term in the increasing pattern: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …?
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Answer: H — 55
41. Which could be the rule for the pattern: 1,000; 100; 10; 1; 0.1; 0.01?
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Answer: A — Divide the previous number by 10.
42. Which is the variable in the number sentence 4x + 3 = 8?
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Answer: J — x
43. Which is equal to (3 * 3^2)?
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Answer: G — 27
44. The prices of the items in Alana’s grocery cart are listed below: Soup: $1.25 per can Bread: $2.50 per loaf Juice: $1.75 per bottle Milk: $3.00 per container Alana has $10.00 to spend. Which list of items could she purchase without exceeding $10.00?
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Answer: D — 2 cans of soup, 1 bottle of juice, and 1 container of milk
45. Antonio moved boxes that weighed 26.5 pounds, 34.2 pounds, and 45.8 pounds. Which is closest to the total weight he moved?
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Answer: G — 107 pounds
46. Greg ate ( (3)/(8) ) of a pizza and Sam ate ( (1)/(3) ) of the same pizza. How much of the whole pizza was eaten?
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Answer: D — ( (17)/(24) )
47. Carl needs (2(1)/(2)) cups of flour. He has ( (1)/(2) ) cup. How many more cups does he need?
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Answer: H — (2(1)/(4)) cups
48. Mrs. Chan bought 2 oranges each day for 9 days. Each orange costs $0.49. To the nearest dollar, how much did she spend?
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Answer: C — $9
49. Alexis needs 300 sheets of construction paper. Available packages: W: 50 sheets for $4.50 X: 75 sheets for $5.10 Y: 100 sheets for $10.75 Z: 150 sheets for $12.25 Which is the least expensive way to buy exactly 300 sheets?
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Answer: G — 4 packages of X
50. Which is greater, 0.3 or 0.312?
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Answer: C — They are equal
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