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Unit 6 Written Assessment


 1. 
What is the median? ____________________________________________
A
The smallest value
B
The middle value
C
The largest value
D
The most frequent value
 

 2. 
What is the maximum? ___________________________________________
A
The smallest value
B
The middle value
C
The largest value
D
The most frequent value
 

 3. 
What is the mode? ____________________________________________
A
The smallest value
B
The middle value
C
The largest value
D
The most frequent value
 

 4. 
What is the minimum? ___________________________________________
A
The smallest value
B
The middle value
C
The largest value
D
The most frequent value
 

 5. 
pr005-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Camilo asked 7 boys in his fifth-grade class how many sports they like to play.
Here are the results of his survey:  0    7    1    8    7    4    5        
a. What was the median number of sports played? ________

b. Camilo concluded: The typical fifth grader likes about 7 sports.
Do you agree with his conclusion? Explain. ___________________________
______________________________________________________________
c. Describe two ways Camilo could improve his survey.
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
 

 6. 
pr006-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Add or subtract.
a.pr006-2.jpg__________b.pr006-3.jpg__________
c.pr006-4.jpg__________d.pr006-5.jpg__________
e.pr006-6.jpgf.pr006-7.jpg
g.pr006-8.jpgh.pr006-9.jpg
 

 7. 
pr007-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
What is the fraction pair represented by the drawing below?
pr007-2.jpg
 
pr007-3.jpg
__________
and
__________
 

 8. 
pr008-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Write a pair of fractions with common denominators for the drawing below.
pr008-2.jpg
 
pr008-3.jpg
__________
and
__________
 

 9. 
Stephanie is writing a report on eating habits, sleep, and dreams. She gave a survey to the students in her class. 
Which question best goes with the graph shown below?
mc009-1.jpg
A
About how many snacks do you eat between your evening meal and bedtime?
B
About how many dreams do you remember having in an average week?
C
About how many hours do you sleep each night?
D
About what time do you usually eat your evening meal?
 

 10. 
pr010-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Find the median and mode of each stem-and-leaf plot below.
a.
    Stems
       (10s)
 Leaves
(1s)
b.
    Stems
       (10s)
 Leaves
(1s)
 
            1
1  9     
            1
 3  5     
 
            2
0  2  3  3  3  4  9 
            2
 0  2  3  4  6  6 
 
            3
2  pr010-2.jpg 
            3
 1   
      
 median: ____________ median: ____________
 mode: ____________ mode: ____________
 

 11. 
pr011-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Jerome's class made these estimates for the number of jellybeans in a jar:
140, 155, 138, 147, 146, pr011-2.jpg103, 126, 154, 183, 146,
132, pr011-3.jpg146, 126, 121pr011-4.jpgpr011-5.jpg
  Stems
(100s and 10s)		 Leaves
 (1s)
10
3
12
1  6  pr011-6.jpg
13
2  8
14
0  pr011-7.jpg6  7
15
4  5  pr011-8.jpg
18
3  pr011-9.jpg

a. Explain the mistake in the stem-and-leaf plot for the jellybean estimates.
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________

b. Create a new stem-and-leaf plot to make the stem-and-leaf plot correct.
  
  
  
 
 

 12. 
pr012-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
a. Use your ruler to draw a line segment that is pr012-2.jpg in. long.




b. If you erased pr012-3.jpg inch from this line segment, how long would it be? ________

c. If you drew a line segment twice as long as the original line,
how long would it be? ________
 

 13. 
pr013-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
One survey reported favorite types of books for fifth graders. The results of the survey were as follows:
adventure books: 39%
mystery books: 30%
comedies: 20%
other: 11%
a.   Which of the following bar graphs best represents the survey results? __________________
pr013-2.jpg
pr013-3.jpg
b.  If 100 students answered the survey, how many of them chose other?
____________
c.  If 10 students answered the survey, how many of them chose comedies?
____________
d.  If 50 students answered the survey, how many of them chose mysteries?
____________
e.  If you were trying to decide what kinds of books to buy for the library in your town, how many fifth graders would you interview?
____________
Explain why you chose that number.
___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________
 

 14. 
pr014-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Explain how you would use the multiplication rule to find the common denominator for the given fraction pair:
pr014-2.jpg   and   pr014-3.jpg
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
 

 15. 
pr015-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Explain one way to rename pr015-2.jpg as a percent without using a calculator.
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
 

 16. 
pr016-1.jpg Use pencil and paper to answer the question.
Mean Age
Imagine a family of seven people. Pretend you are one of the 7 people in the family.

The average age of this family is 21 years.

a. List the ages of all seven people in the family. Describe the relationship each of the imaginary family members has to you - for example, my mom, my younger sister, etc.
  
  
  
b. Explain how you used the mean to find the ages of the family members.
  
  
  
 



 
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