COLEGIO CEMANQUI

6TH GRADE
MATHEMATICS GUIDE
THIRD TRIMESTRIAL
2020-2021

1. Steph and Jawad run their own businesses. Steph makes greeting cards
and sells them at a market each Sunday. Jawad is a gardener.
Jawad’s total charge for a gardening job is:
 a fixed charge of 20 zeds plus
 an hourly charge of 30 zeds per hour.

Music 550 MB
Photos 338 MB
Free space 112 MB

Write a formula that shows how Jawad’s total charge, C, relates to, h, the
number of hours he spends on a job?
a.C = 30H +20
b.C = 20 - H x 30
c.C = H +20
d.C = 20 + H / 30

2. A memory stick is a small, portable computer storage device. Ivan has a

memory stick that stores music and photos. The memory stick has a
capacity of 1 GB (1000 MB). The graph below shows the current disk status
of his memory stick.
Ivan wants to transfer a photo album of 350 MB onto his memory stick, but
there is not enough free space on the memory stick. While he does not want
to delete any existing photos, he is happy to delete up to two music albums.
Ivan’s memory stick has the following size music albums stored on it.

By deleting at most two music albums is it possible for Ivan to have enough
space on his memory stick to add the photo album?

a.yes, deleiting album 1 and 2

b.yes, deleiting album 7 and 8
c.no
d.yes, deleiting album 3 and 4
3. During the following weeks, Ivan deletes some photos and music, but also
adds new files of photos and music. The new disk status is shown in the
table below:

His brother gives him a new memory stick with a capacity of 2GB (2000
MB), which is totally empty. Ivan transfers the content of his old memory
stick onto the new one. Which one of the following graphs represents the
new memory stick’s disk status? Circle A, B, C or D.

a.A
b.B
c.C
d.D

4. Below is a student’s mathematical model of the farmhouse roof with

measurements added.
Calculate the area of the attic floor ABCD.
The area of the attic floor ABCD = ______________ m²
a.142
b.143
c.144
d.148
5. You are asked to design a new set of coins. All coins will be circular and
coloured silver, but of different diameters.

Researchers have found out that an ideal coin system meets the following
requirements:
• diameters of coins should not be smaller than 15 mm and not be larger than 45
mm.
• given a coin, the diameter of the next coin must be at least 30% larger.
• the minting machinery can only produce coins with diameters of a whole number
of millimetres (e.g. 17 mm is allowed, 17.3 mm is not).
You are asked to design a set of coins that satisfy the above requirements. You
should start with a 15 mm coin and your set should contain as many coins as
possible. What would be the diameters of the coins in your set?
a. 15 – 20 – 26 – 37 – 45
b. 15 – 20 – 25 – 34 – 45
c.15 – 23 – 26 – 34 – 45
d. 15 – 20 – 26 – 34 – 45.
6. In 1998 the average height of both young males and young females in the
Netherlands is represented in this graph.

Since 1980 the average height of 20-year-old females has increased by 2.3 cm, to
170.6 cm. What was the average height of a 20-year-old female in 1980?
a. 167.3 cm
b.168.3 cm
c.163 cm
d.165 cm
7. Choose the one figure below that fits the following description. Triangle PQR is a
right triangle with right angle at R. The line RQ is less than the line PR. M is the
midpoint of the line PQ and N is the midpoint of the line QR. S is a point inside the
triangle. The line MN is greater than the line MS.
a.A
b.B
c.C
d.D
8. The approximate distance to stop a moving vehicle is the sum of:
• the distance covered during the time the driver takes to begin to apply the brakes
(reaction-time distance)
• the distance travelled while the brakes are applied (braking distance)
The ‘snail’ diagram below gives the theoretical stopping distance for a vehicle in
good braking conditions (a particularly alert driver, brakes and tyres in perfect
condition, a dry road with a good surface) and how much the stopping distance
depends on speed.
If a vehicle is travelling at 110 kph, what distance does the vehicle travel during the
driver’s reaction time?
a.57.7 metres
b.85.4 metres
c.22.9 metres
d.70.7 metres
9. If a vehicle is travelling at 110 kph, what is the total distance travelled before the
vehicle stops?
a.219 metres
b.101 metres
c.135.6 metres
d.85.4 metres
10. If a vehicle is travelling at 110 kph, how long does it take to stop the vehicle
completely?
a.8.15 seconds
b.4.45 seconds
c.5.84 seconds
d.3.53 seconds
11.A second driver, travelling in good conditions, stops her vehicle in a total
distance of 70.7 metres. At what speed was the vehicle travelling before the brakes
were applied?
a.60 kph
b.90 kph
c.40 kph
d.170 kph
12. A woman in hospital receives an injection of penicillin. Her body gradually
breaks the penicillin down so that one hour after the injection only 60% of the
penicillin will remain active. This pattern continues: at the end of each hour only
60% of the penicillin that was present at the end of the previous hour remains
active. Suppose the woman is given a dose of 300 milligrams of penicillin at 8
o’clock in the morning.
Complete this table showing the amount of penicillin that will remain active in
the woman’s blood at intervals of one hour from 0800 until 1100 hours.

13. Robert’s mother lets him pick one candy from a bag. He can’t see the candies.
The number of candies of each colour in the bag is shown in the following graph.
What is the probability that Robert will pick a red candy?
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 25%
d. 50%
14. In Mei Lin’s school, her science teacher gives tests that are marked out of
100. Mei Lin has an average of 60 marks on her first four Science tests. On the
fifth test she got 80 marks. What is the average of Mei Lin’s marks in Science
after all five tests?
a. 34
b.64
c.23
d.89
15. There are three apartments in the building. The largest, apartment 1, has a
total area of 95m2 . Apartments 2 and 3 have areas of 85m2 and 70m2
respectively. The selling price for the building is 300 000 zeds. How much
should the owner of apartment 2 pay?
a.10290 zeds
b.12903 zeds
c.10200 zeds
d.15800 zeds
16. A car magazine uses a rating system to evaluate new cars, and gives the
award of “The Car of the Year” to the car with the highest total score. Five new
cars are being evaluated, and their ratings are shown in the table.
The ratings are interpreted as follows:
3 points = Excellent
2 points = Good
1 point = Fair
To calculate the total score for a car, the car magazine uses the following rule,
which is a weighted sum of the individual score points:
Total Score = (3 x S) + F + E + T Calculate the total score for Car “Ca”
a.13 points
b.15 points
c.19 points
d.20 points
17. The animal photographer Jean Baptiste went on a year-long expedition and
took numerous photos of penguins and their chicks. He was particularly
interested in the growth in the size of different penguin colonies.Normally, a
penguin couple produces two eggs every year. Usually the chick from the larger
of the two eggs is the only one that survives. With rockhopper penguins, the
first egg weighs approximately 78 g and the second egg weighs approximately
110 g.
By approximately how many percent is the second egg heavier than the first
egg?
a. 29%
b. 32%
c. 41%
d. 71%
18. Jean wonders how the size of a penguin colony will change over the next
few years. In order to determine this, he makes the following assumptions:
• At the beginning of the year, the colony consists of 10 000 penguins (5 000
couples).
• Each penguin couple raises one chick in the spring of each year.
• By the end of the year 20% of all the penguins (adults and chicks) will die.
At the end of the first year, how many penguins (adults and chicks) are there in
the colony?
a.15 000
b. 12 000
c.5 000
d. 6 000
19. Jean assumes the colony will continue to grow in the following manner:
• At the beginning of each year, the colony consists of equal numbers of male
and female penguins who form couples.
• Each penguin couple raises one chick in the spring of each year.
• By the end of each year 20% of all the penguins (adults and chicks) will die.
• One year old penguins will also raise chicks. Based on the above
assumptions, which of the following formulae describes the total number of
penguins, P, after 7 years?
a. P = 10 000 x (1.5 x 0.2)7
b. P = 10 000 x (1.5 x 0.8) 7
c. P = 10 000 x (1.2 x 0.2) 7
d. P = 10 000 x (1.2 x 0.8) 7
20. After he gets home from his trip, Jean Baptiste has a look on the Internet to
see how many chicks a penguin couple raise on average. He finds the following
bar chart for the three penguin types Gentoo, Rockhopper and Magellanic.
Based on the chart above, are the following statements about these three
penguin types true or false? Choose “True” or “False” for each statement.

a. True, True, False, True

b. True, True, False, False
c. True, False, False, True
d. False, True, False, True
21. POWER OF THE WIND
Zedtown is considering building some wind power stations to produce
electricity.
The Zedtown Council gathered information about the following model.
Model: E-82
Height of tower: 138 metres
Number of rotor blades: 3
Length of one rotor blade: 40 metres
Maximum speed of rotation: 20 rotations per minute
Price for construction: 3 200 000 zeds
Turnover: 0.10 zeds per kWh generated
Maintenance cost: 0.01 zeds per kWh generated
Efficiency: Operational 97% of the year
Decide whether the following statements about the E-82 wind power station can
be deduced from the information provided. Choose “Yes” or “No” for each
statement.

a. Yes, No, No, No

b. Yes, No, Yes, No
c. No, No, No, No
d. No, No, Yes, No
22. Zedtown wants to estimate the costs and the profit that would be created by
constructing this wind power station. Zedtown’s mayor proposes the following
formula for estimating the financial gain, F zeds, over a number of years, y, if
they build the E-82 model.

a. 6 years
b. 8 years
c. 10 years
d. 12 years
23. The table below shows data about household ownership of televisions
(TVs) for five countries. It also shows the percentage of those households that
own TVs and also subscribe to cable TV.

The table shows that in Switzerland 85.8% of all households own TVs. Based
on the information in the table, what is the closest estimate of the total number
of households in Switzerland?
a. 2.4 million
b. 2.9 million
c. 3.3 million
d. 3.8 million
24. In Zedland there are two newspapers that try to recruit sellers. The posters
below show how they pay their sellers.

On average, Frederic sells 350 copies of the Zedland Star every week. How
much does he earn each week, on average?
Amount in zeds: ....................................
a.32
b.55
c.92
d.56
25. Christine sells the Zedland Daily. One week she earns 74 zeds. How many
newspapers did she sell that week?
Number of newspapers sold: .................
a.283
b.286
c.282
d.280