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Town A Town B: 6 Grade Pre-Assessment Student Name: - Date

This document contains 5 word problems assessing proportional reasoning skills for 6th grade students. The problems include comparing raccoon populations per square mile in two towns, calculating water usage for a shower of a given length, determining which of two forests has more trees per acre, comparing gas mileage for two cars that traveled different distances using different amounts of gas, and using a ratio to determine the total number of marbles in a bag based on the number of one color marble found.

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Town A Town B: 6 Grade Pre-Assessment Student Name: - Date

This document contains 5 word problems assessing proportional reasoning skills for 6th grade students. The problems include comparing raccoon populations per square mile in two towns, calculating water usage for a shower of a given length, determining which of two forests has more trees per acre, comparing gas mileage for two cars that traveled different distances using different amounts of gas, and using a ratio to determine the total number of marbles in a bag based on the number of one color marble found.

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6th Grade Pre-assessment Student Name:__________________________


Date:___________________________

RD(M): 1

The chart below shows the population of raccoons in two towns.

Town A Town B
60 square miles 40 square miles
480 raccoons 380 raccoons

Karl says that Town A has more raccoons per square mile. Josh says that
Town B has more raccoons per square mile. Who is right? Justify your
answer.

6th Pre-assessment October 2008 Proportional Reasoning


Vermont Mathematics Partnership (funded by NSF (EHR-0227057) and US DOE (S366A020002)
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6th Grade pre-assessment Student Name:__________________________
Date:___________________________

RPC(M):33a

Bob’s shower uses 18 gallons of water every 3 minutes. How many gallons
of water does Bob use if he takes a 13 minute shower?

Show all your work for this problem.

October 2008 Proportional Reasoning


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6th Grade Pre-assessment Student Name:__________________________
Date:___________________________

QR(M): 22

Sherwood Forest is twice as big as Tucker Forest.


Sherwood Forest has twice as many trees as Tucker Forest.
Which forest has the most trees per acre?
Explain your thinking.

Proportional Reasoning October 2008


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RPC(M) Student Name: _______________________
Date: _______________________

RPC(M): 4

Car A traveled 240 miles on 12 gallons of gas.

Car B traveled 180 miles on 9 gallons of gas.

Sam says Car A gets more miles per gallon of gas because it traveled
240 miles and Car B traveled only 180 miles.

Tracy says Car B gets more miles per gallon because it used less gas
than Car A.

Tom says Car A and Car B both get the same number of miles per
gallon of gas.

Who is right: Sam, Tracy or Tom? Explain your choice.

Proportional Reasoning October 2008


Vermont Mathematics Partnership (funded by NSF (EHR-0227057) and US DOE (S366A020002)
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6th Grade Pre-assessment Student Name:__________________________
Date:___________________________

PR11a

Marbles

There are red and blue marbles in a bag.

The ratio of red marbles to blue marbles in a bag is 1:2.

Sue opened the bag and found 12 red marbles.

How many marbles are in the bag altogether?

Explain your thinking.

Proportional Reasoning October 2008


Vermont Mathematics Partnership (funded by NSF (EHR-0227057) and US DOE (S366A020002)

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