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Chapter 6 Test Review
1. In Marta’s class, the ratio of students who ate tacos for lunch to the students who ate burritos
was 15:35. Write a fraction that is an equivalent form of this ratio
2. ______Which best describes
A. It is between 30 and 40B. It is between 17 and 18
C. It is between 5 and 6D. It is equivalent to 1225
3. ______What is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle shown?
A B. 13
C. D 5 2
3
4. Use the currency exchange table and proportions to answer the question. Show your work
You are traveling in Britainand see your favorite style of jeans selling for 38.98£in British pounds.
How much are these jeans in United States dollars?
1 USD / in USDBritish Pound / 0.571102 / 1.751
Canadian Dollar / 1.1815 / 0.846382
Chinese Yuan / 8.0856 / 0.123677
Euro / 0.845451 / 1.1828
Japanese Yen / 118.2 / 0.00846024
5. Shauna can type 4,291 words in one hour. The requirement to pass her typing class is 75 words per
minute. Does Shauna type fast enough to pass her class?
6. On a flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., an Air Force jet flew the 2,860 miles in 48
minutes. At what rate of speed did the jet fly?
A) 1,351 miles per hour B) 2,145 miles per hour
C) 3,036 miles per hour D) 3,575 miles per hour
7. Use the centimeter side of your ruler to help you solve this problem. Look at the scale diagram. If
Earth's diameter is about 12,800 kilometers, what would be a good estimate of the diameter of Mars
A) less than 4,000 kilometers
B) between 4,000 and 6,000 kilometers
C) between 6,000 and 8,000 kilometers
D) over 8,000 kilometers
8. In the figure below, ADE is similar to ABC. What is the length in feet of AB?
8 feet
9. Miguel wants to make a kite with a shape similar to the one shown below. The length of the sides of
the new kite will be 15 times larger.
Would the angles of the new kite be larger, smaller, or the same as the angles of the kite
pictured? Explain your answer on the lines below.
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10. To make 3 dozen cookies, a recipe calls for 4 eggs and 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. Ben wants to
make 12 dozen cookies for a class picnic. How many eggs does he need?
11. The students in a social studies class measured and recorded their heights on a chart in the
classroom. Luis's height was 1.52 meters Write Luis’ height in centimeters.
12. Mr. Frank wants to mix yellow paint and blue paint to get 18 ounces of green paint. The shade of
green he wants requires 2 parts yellow paint and 4 parts blue paint. How many ounces of blue paint
does he need for his mix?
13. An odometer shows the distance a car has been driven. The odometer does not work correctly on
Peter's car, and it registers only 3 miles for every 5 miles it has been driven. If his odometer shows
55 miles, how many miles has the car actually been driven?
14. A drawing of the GreenburgAirport uses a scale of 1 centimeter = 300 meters. Runway A is
drawn 12 centimeters long. How many meters is actual length of the runway?
15. If you drew a new triangle with sides that have lengths 1.5 times the lengths of the sides of the
original triangle, would the two triangles similar or congruent to each other? Explain in words
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16. Jesse works in a bakery. He can make 12 pies in 96 minutes. In the space below, write an
proportion that can be used to find how many pies (p) Jesse would be able to make in 8 hours.
Use your proportion to determine how many pies he could make in 8 hours.
17. The roller coaster at an amusement park reaches a height of 170 feet before it drops downa slope
to a point 10 feet above ground level, in a horizontal distance of 120 feet, asshown below. What
is the approximate length of the track, in feet, of the section of the roller coasterlabeled A?
18.The outboard engine on Jimmy's boat uses a fuel-to-oil mixture in a 50:1 ratio. If Jimmy puts 1.5
gallons of fuel in the tank, how many fluid ounces of oil does he need to add?
(1gallon = 128 fluid ounces)
19. What value of x would make the two triangles shown below similar?