Los Angeles Unified School District
Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and School Support
INTERIM ASSESSMENT
Common Core Math 6
Spring Semester
2014-2015
Student Test Booklet
Los Angeles Unified School District
Office of Curriculum, Instruction and School Support
Common Core Math 6 Interim Assessment, Spring
Directions: Answer all multiple choice and selected response questions on the test booklet.
When you are finished with a page, go on to the next page. Answer all constructed response
items in the test booklet, using the answer spaces given within each item.
1. Darcy likes to eat peanut butter and
raisins on apple slices. On each
apple slice she puts cup of peanut
butter and 8 raisins.
Darcy has cup of peanut butter and
80 raisins. She eats a whole number
of apple slices until the peanut
butter is all gone. What fraction of
the 80 raisins did she eat?
Write the fraction below.
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The elevation at the lowest point in
Louisiana is higher than the lowest
point in California
○ True ○ False
3. Which number line shows the
correct placement of all the given
values?
2. Sea level is 0 feet in elevation. The
elevation of land represents its
height above or below sea level.
This table shows the lowest
elevation in some states.
State
Lowest Elevation (ft)
Arizona
California
Louisiana
Tennessee
72
-282
-68
178
Determine whether each statement
about the lowest elevations is
correct. Select True or False for
each statement.
The elevation at the lowest point in
California is higher than the lowest
point in Louisiana
4. Let n be an integer. Tracy claims
that –n must be less than 0. To
convince Tracy that his statement is
only sometimes true:
Part A
Draw n on the number line so that
the value of –n is less than 0.
Part B
Draw n on the number line so that
the value of –n is greater than 0.
○ True ○ False
The elevation at the lowest point in
Tennessee is farther from 0 than the
elevation at the lowest point of
Louisiana.
○ True ○ False
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Office of Curriculum, Instruction and School Support
Common Core Math 6 Interim Assessment, Spring
5. A boat takes 3 hours to reach an
island 15 miles away.
The boat travels:
o At least 1 mile but no more
than 6 miles during the first
hour
o At least 2 miles during the
second hour
o Exactly 5 miles during the
third hour
Show the range of miles the boat
could have traveled during the
second hour, given the conditions
above.
For the numbers 1a-1d, select True
or False for each statement.
1a. The distance from the captain to
the diver is greater than the distance
from the top of the water to the
ocean floor.
○ True ○ False
1b. The distance from the captain to
the top of the water is the same as
the distance from the diver to the
ocean floor.
○ True ○ False
1c. When the diver swims to -10
feet, the diver will be the same
distance below the top of the water
as the captain is above the top of
the water.
○ True ○ False
1d. When the diver swims to -10
feet, the diver’s distance to the
ocean floor will be equal to diver’s
distance to the top of the water.
○ True ○ False
6. The level of the top of the water in
the ocean is consdered to be at an
altitude of zero (0) feet.
o The ocean floor at a
particular dive site is -20
feet.
o A diver is located at -5 feet at
that same site.
o The captain of a boat is
located at an altitude of 15
feet, directly above the diver.
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7. Two ordered pairs are shown on a
coordinate grid.
Plot each ordered pair at its correct
location on the coordinate grid.
9b. Are 32 +16y and 8(4+2y)
equivalent expressions?
○ Yes ○ No
9c. Are 3(x+2y) and 3x + 2Y
equivalent expressions?
o (-a, -b)
o (a, -b)
o (-c, -d)
○ Yes ○ No
10. Select all the expressions that are
equivalent to 8(t+4).
o
o
o
o
o
11. Look at each expression. Is it
equivalent to 36 x + 24y? Select all
that apply
8. Select all equations that have x = 3
as a solution.
o
o
o
o
9. For numbers 1a-1c, select Yes or No
to indicate whether the pairs are
equivalent expressions.
9a. Are 4(3x-y) and 12x-4y
equivalent expressions?
○ Yes ○ No
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12. Ms. Stone buys groceries for a total
of $45.32. She now has $342.25
left. Which equation could be used
to find out how much money Ms.
Stone had before she bought the
groceries?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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13. Select the equation(s) where x = 5 is
a solution. Select all that apply.
16. An inequality is shown
Select the statement (s) and number
line (s) that can be represented by
the inequality. Select all that apply.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
14. This morning, Emily studied 40
minutes for a math exam. Later that
evening, Emily studied for x more
minutes. Write an equation that
represents the total number of
minutes, y,Emily studied for the
math exam.
17. Micah constructs a rectangular
prism with a volume of 360 cubic
units. The height of his prism is 10
units.
__________________________
Micah claims that the base of the
prism must be a square.
15. Consider the inequality
.
Determine whether each value of
shown in the table makes this
inequality true. Select Yes or No for
each value.
Draw a base that shows Micah’s
claim is incorrect.
18. Consider this figure.
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Part A: Select whether Ben’s
statement is true or false.
○ True ○ False
What is the total area of figure ABCD
in square centimeters?
19. Brady started to fill the box shown
with some unit cubes.
Part B. Write the combined volume
of the shaded cubes.
Combined Volume:
_______________cubic feet
21. The coordinates of this
parallelogram are given.
What is the total number of unit
cubes needed to completely fill the
box. Include the unit cubes already
shown in your total.
Determine if each statement is True
or False.
The length of the longer side is p-2.
○ True ○ False
20. Two shaded cubes are shown.
The length of the longer side is n+1.
○ True ○ False
The short side is 4 units in length.
○ True ○ False
Ben states that the combined
volume of these two shaded cubes is
equal to the volume of this cube.
Does n=5?
○ True ○ False
Is m>n?
○ True ○ False
Does p=2n?
○ True ○ False
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Common Core Math 6 Interim Assessment, Spring
22. A statistical question is one where
you expect to get a variety of
answers. Determine whether each
queston can be classified as a
statistical question. Select Yes or No
for each question.
How many hours a week do people
exercise?
23. Look at the box-and-whisker plot of
pumpkin weights.
○ Yes ○ No
How many hours are there in a day?
○ Yes ○ No
How many rainbows have students
seen this month?
○ Yes ○ No
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What is the median pumpkin weight?
A.
B.
C.
D.
12 lb
14 lb
15 lb
16 lb
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24. Part A
Ana is saving to buy a bicycle that costs $135. She has saved $98 and wants to know how much
more money she needs to buy the bicycle.
The equation
models this situation, where
models this situation,
where x represents the additonal amount of money Ana needs to buy the bicycle.

When subsituting for x, which value (s), if any, from the set {
make the equation true?

Explain what this means in terms of the amount of money needed and the cost of the
bicycle.
} will
Part B
Ana considered buying the $135 bicycle, but then she decided to shop for a different bicycle.
She knows the other bicycle she likes will cost more than $150.
This situation can be modeled by the following inequality.
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
Which values, if any, from -250 to 250 will make the inequality true? If more than one
value makes the inequality true, identify the least and greatest values that make the
inequaltiy true.

Explain what this means in terms of the amount.
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Common Core Math 6 Interim Assessment, Spring
25. A. Jamal is filling bags with sand. All of the bags are the same size. Each bag must weigh less
than 50 pounds. One sand bag weighs 57 pounds and another sand bag weighs 41 pounds.
Explain whether Jamal can pour sand from one bag into the other so that the weight of each
bag is less than 50 pounds.
B. Claire is filling bags with sand. All the bags are the same size. Each bag must weigh less
than 50 pounds. One sand bag weighs 58 pounds, another sand bag weighs 41 pounds and
another sand bag weighs 53 pounds.
Explain whether Claire can pour sand between the sand bags so that the weight of each bag
is less than 50 pounds.
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