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Lesson 5 Student Outcomes
NYS Math Grade 6, Module 1, Lesson 5, Example 1
A County Superintendent of Highways is interested in the numbers of different types of vehicles that regularly travel within his county. In the month of August, a total of 192 registrations were purchased for passenger cars and pickup trucks at the local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The DMV reported that in the month of August, for every 5 passenger cars registered, there were 7 pickup trucks registered. How many of each type of vehicle were registered in the county in the month of August?
a. Using the information in the problem, write four ratios and describe the meaning of each.
b. Make a tape-diagram that represents the quantities in the ratios that you wrote.
c. How many equal-sized parts does the tape diagram consist of?
d. What total quantity does the tape diagram represent?
e. What value does each individual part of the tape diagram represent?
f. How many of each type of vehicle were registered in August?
NYS Math Module 1 Grade 6 Lesson 5 Example 2
The Superintendent of Highways is further interested in the numbers of commercial vehicles that frequently use the county’s highways. He obtains information from the Department of Motor Vehicles for the month of September and finds that for every 14 non-commercial vehicles, there were 5 commercial vehicles. If there were 108 more non- commercial vehicles than commercial vehicles, how many of each type of vehicle frequently use the county’s highways during the month of September?
NYS Math Module 1 Grade 6 Lesson 5 Exercises 1, 2
NYS Math Module 1 Grade 6 Lesson 5 Exercise 3
NYS Math Module 1 Grade 6 Lesson 5 Exercise 4
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