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6th Grade Math Profit and Data Problems

The document contains math prompts for 6th graders involving ticket sales for a talent show, water delivery calculations, a bake sale fundraiser, and analyzing text message data. It includes tasks such as writing expressions for profit, calculating break-even points, determining weights and ratios, and finding statistical measures like mean and median. Each section provides specific questions that require problem-solving and reasoning skills.

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6th Grade Math Profit and Data Problems

The document contains math prompts for 6th graders involving ticket sales for a talent show, water delivery calculations, a bake sale fundraiser, and analyzing text message data. It includes tasks such as writing expressions for profit, calculating break-even points, determining weights and ratios, and finding statistical measures like mean and median. Each section provides specific questions that require problem-solving and reasoning skills.

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6th Grade Math Prompts

A school is selling tickets for a talent show. The cost to rent the auditorium is $240. Tickets
are sold for $6 each.

A school is selling tickets for a talent show. The cost to rent the auditorium is $240. Tickets are sold for $6 each.
(Profit is how much money you make after your expenses are paid.)

a. Write an expression to represent the total profit the school makes after selling t tickets.

b. How many tickets must the school sell to break even (make $0 profit)? Show your work.

c. The school sells 60 tickets. How much profit does the school make? Show your steps.

d. If the school wants to make a profit of at least $120, what is the minimum number of tickets they need to sell? Explain
your reasoning.

A tank truck delivers 11.25 gallons of water to a community garden. Each gallon of water
weighs 8.8 pounds.

The water is poured into barrels that each hold 49.5 pounds of water.

a. What is the total weight of the water delivered by the truck? Show your work.

b. How many barrels are needed to hold all the water from one truck?
A 6th grade class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for a field trip. They are selling
brownies and cookies.
a. The class baked 120 brownies and 80 cookies. What is the ratio of brownies to cookies? Simplify your answer.

b. If they sell each brownie for $1.25 and each cookie for $0.75, how much money will they make if they sell all the baked
goods?

c. The class wants to raise at least $200. Write and solve an inequality to determine how many more brownies (at $1.25
each) they need to sell if they only sold 40 cookies.

d. After expenses, the class had to pay $25 for ingredients and $15 to rent a table. What was their final profit?

A group of 6th graders recorded the number of text messages they sent in one day: 32, 45,
50, 50, 60, 60, 60, 62, 65, 80

a. Find the mean, median, and mode of the data set. Show your work.

b. What is the range of the data? What does the range tell you about the data set?

c. A new student joins the group and says they sent 120 messages that day. How would this affect the mean? Would it
change the median? Explain.

d. Use the data to make a box plot. Label the five-number summary: minimum, Q1, median, Q3, and maximum.

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