PSSA 6th Grade Math Review

Exponents

100

5²

What is 25

200

9³

What is 729

300

7² + 2²

What is 53

400

9² x 5³ - 17²

What is 9,836

500

Write the following using exponents: 

3 x 3 x 3 x 5 x 5 x 7 x 7 x 7

What is 3³ x 5² x 7³

Fractions/Decimals

100

Convert to a fraction: 0.9

What is 9/10

200

Convert to a percentage: 3/4

What is 75%

300

Convert to a fraction: 25%

What is 1/4

400

Convert to a decimal: 4/5

What is 0.8

500

What is 20% of 32

What is 6.4

Algebra

100

What value for x makes the equation true?

x - 44 = 56

What is x = 100

200

What value for x makes the equation true? 

6x= 18

What is x = 3

300

What is the vaue of 2(3 + 7x) when x =4

What is 62

400

A machine can seal fewer than 80 bottles per minute. What inequality represents this situation?

What is x < 80

500

Ryan thinks of a number. When he multiplies the number by 14, he will get the same result as 7/12 of 816. What is the number Ryan thought of?

What is 34

Polygons

100

A polygon with five sides

What is a pentagon

200

A triangle has a base of 9 inches and a height of 4 inches. What is the area of the triangle?

What is 18 in.²

300

What is the volume of the rectangular prism that is 16 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm? 

What is 320 cm³

400

What polygon has only one set of parallel sides?

What is a trapezoid

500

Joe drew a regular pentagon with side lengths of 8 centimeters. He divided the regular pentagon into 5 indentical triangles. He measured the height of one of the triangles to be 4 centimeters. Find the area. 

What is 80 cm²

Mean, Median, Mode and Range

100

Find the mode 10, 9, 8, 100, 8, 9, 7, 8

What is 8

200

Find the median 8, 4, 12, 3, 0, 5, 4, 6

What is 4.5 

300

Find the Range: 10, 34, 76, 21, 5

What is 71

400

Find the mean 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

What is 17.5

500

Find the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of the following data: 

46, 35, 39, 33, 25, 26

What is 6