2009 AEA 267 School_________________________________________

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6th Grade Math Bee
Team Number______________________________
Team Problem Solving

1. Tina works in the shipping department at a sporting good factory. The 1.____________________
shipping boxes that Tina is using can hold up to 5 pounds. Tina has to ship all total boxes
the items in the chart below. Each box must contain only one kind of item.
How many boxes will she need?

Item Quantity Single Item Weight (ounces)

Tennis balls 24 2
Baseballs 15 5
Hockey pucks 22 6
Golf balls 35 1
2. What common fraction is exactly halfway between 13 and 35 ? 2._____________________

3. Carpet costs $21.95 per square yard and the padding under it costs $2.55 per 3.__$___________________
square yard. Felix plans to install padding and carpet in the region shown in the
diagram. What is the cost of the carpet and padding needed to exactly cover the
room? (Express your answer to the nearest cent.)

4. When rolling two standard six-sided dice, what is the probability of getting a 4._____________________
sum larger than or equal to 10? (Express your answer as a common fraction.)

5. During a year when Thanksgiving is on Thursday, November 25, on what day of 5.____________________
the week (Sunday, Monday, etc.) does Christmas occur?

6. Two complementary angles are in the ratio of 4:1. What is the measure, in 6._____________________
degrees, of the smaller angle? degrees

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7. Chad has to shovel snow off the sidewalk in front of his family’s house. The 7.____________________
sidewalk is 60 feet long and 3 feet wide. If the snow is 12 foot deep, how many cubic yards of snow
cubic yards of snow does Chad have to shovel off the sidewalk?

8. In a spelling bee, 23 of the students were eliminated after the first round. The 8.____________________
second round then eliminated 50% of the remaining students. If 12 students students
were still in the contest after the second round, how many students began the
contest?

9. The approximate diameter of the Earth is 7920 miles. The International 9.____________________
Space Station orbits the Earth at an altitude of 250 miles. Find the distance the miles
space station travels during one orbit of the Earth. (Round your answer to the
nearest whole mile. Use 3.14 for pi.)

10. The product of two consecutive whole numbers is 600. What is the sum of 10.____________________
the two numbers?

11. If three identical cylinders weigh as much as five identical spheres, and three of 11. ___________________
these spheres weigh as much as twelve identical cubes, then how many cylinders cylinders
weigh as much as sixty cubes?

12. Jordan bought a hybrid Honda Civic that gets 45 miles per gallon of gas. 12. ___________________
Jessica bought a regular Civic that gets 34 miles per gallon. If they both drive more gallons
15,000 miles each year, how many more gallons of gas will Jessica use in five
years, compared to Jordan? (Express your answer to the nearest whole gallon.)