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Question 397681: Rachel and Josie live in the cities 500 miles apart. They leave their home at the same time and travel toward each other at the rate of 40mph and 45mph. If they leave at 9 A.M. at what time will they still be 75 miles apart?
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Question 398142: Distance between Moving Objects A Dodge Neon and a
Mack truck leave an intersection at the same time.The Neon
heads east at an average speed of 30 miles per hour, while
the truck heads south at an average speed of 40 miles per
hour. Find an expression for their distance apart d (in miles)
at the end of t hour
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Question 399447: Could you please help me ! Ok so the ships captain located a light at an angle of elevation of 35degrees . The light rests atop a 40 foot lighthouse. Find the distance from the ship to the shore .
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Question 400179: what is the endpoint B(x,y)of segment AB if A is(0,-4) and the midpoint is (0,-2)? I don't really know how to do it I only know the midpoint formula. Thanks!!
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Question 402327: Today I got the homework which i turned in this past friday and I got this question wrong. The answer I put down was 1.7
May you help me please?
Find the slope of the line passing through (-2, 18) and (-14, 4). Round your answer to 1 decimal place.
Where can I ask general questions because Iam taking percal?
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Question 403228: the lenght of a rectnguular garden is three times widht if the perimeter is 32 m, what are the dimension of the garden?

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Question 403354: How do I find the equation of the line passing through the point (1,5) and parallel to 4x+7y=18?
Thank you for your time and consideration! I have a test on these tomorrow and I'm really confused.
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Question 403410: Find the distance between R(-1,1) and s(-4,-5) to the nearest tenth.
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Question 403410: Find the distance between R(-1,1) and s(-4,-5) to the nearest tenth.
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Question 403457: Find the distance between A(0,1) and B(-4,6) to the nearest tenth.
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Question 403458: YZ has endpoints Y(-1,-11) and Z(-1,-3. Find the length of YZ to the nearest tenth.
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Question 407030: an expiriment consist of rolling a fair number cube find the probability of (p>3)
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Question 408016: What is an equation of the line that passes through the point (-2, 5) and is perpendicular to the line whose equation is y = 1/2x + 5?
1. y = 2x + 1
2. y = -2x + 1
3. y = 2x + 9
4. y = -2x - 9
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Question 408064: John's height increased from 5'2'' to 5'7'' during the past year. what is the rate of increase ( to the nearest whole percent) of John's height over the past year?
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Question 408126: Line segment side AB has endpoints A (2, -3) and B (-4, 6). What are the coordinates of the midpoint of the side AB?
1. (-2, 3)
2. (-1, 1 1/2)
3. (-1, 3)
4. (3, 4 1/2)
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Question 408121: What is the distance between the points (-3,2) and (1,0)?
1. 2 sqrt 2
2. 2 sqrt 3
3. 5 sqrt 2
4. 2 sqrt 5
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Question 408417: Quadrilateral KLMN has vertices K(2, 3), L(7,3), M(4,7) and N(-1,7). Prove that the quadrilateral is a rhombus by finding the lengths of the four sides.
1. KL =
2. LM =
3. MN =
4. NK =
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Question 408730: J is the midpoint of KL The coordinates of J are (-8,7)and the coordinates of K are (3,4) find the coordinates of L.
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Question 408866: How many 9 inch long blocks of wood can be cut from a board that is 7 1/2 feet long?
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Question 409169: What are the coordinates of point B and C when ABCD is a square. The coordinates are:A = (0,0) D= (a,0)?
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Question 409477: A right triangle PQR is drawn on a coordinate grid. The coordinates of the three vertices are (-2,-2),(4,4), and (4,-2). What are the coordinates of the midpoint of the hypotenuse?
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Question 409643: In the diagram, three vertices of parallelogram ORST are O(0, 0), R(b, d), and T(a,0). What are the coordinates of S?
1. (a, b)
2. (a, d)
3. (a + b, d)
4. (a + b, b)

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Question 409746: A jet took one hour longer flying to Las Vegas from Denver at 800 km/h than to return at 1,200 km/h. Find the DISTANCE from Las Vegas to Denver.
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Question 410387: if m<1=40 what does m<4=
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Question 411035: A isosceles right triangle PQR is drawn on a coordinate grid. The vertices are (-5,0),(0,-5),and (5,0). What is the perimeter of the isosceles right triangle in units? Please can anyone help?
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Question 413494: a line segment has endpoints A(7,-1) and B(-3,3).What are the coordinates of the midpoint of AB?
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Question 413802: please help having trouble trying to figure out this problem...
A cardboard box has a square base, with each edge of the base having length x inches. The total length of all 12 edges of the box is 200 in.

a. Express the volume V of the box as a function of x .
V(x) =
b. What is the domain of V ? [Hint: Assume that a zero volume is not allowed.]

c. Offline draw a graph of the function V and use it to find the maximum volume for such a box
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Question 414277: Two trains are traveling at 18kmph and are 60 km apart. There is fly in the train. it flies at 80kmph. It flies and hits the second train and then it starts to oscillate between the two trains. At one instance when the two trains collide it dies. Distance traveled by the fly when both trains collide is
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Question 414990: Carol has 24 cm x 36 cm photo that she reduces to 3/4 of it's size. What are the dimensions of the new photo?

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Question 415985: can someone please help me with this problem:
The roof of a house rises 12 feet across a 30-foot span.
What is the slope of the roof across this span?

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Question 415994: Jerome graphed the linear equation below as part of his homework.
y=2/3x
He then added 2 to the right side of the equation to make a second equation. What is the relationship between the slope of the first equation in Jerome''s homework, and the slope of the second equation that Jerome created?

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Question 415997:
A researcher listened to a person’s heart for a portion of a minute and recorded the number of beats she heard in the table below. From that, she calculated the number of beats per minute, also shown in the table.

Which equation can be used to calculate the beats per minute ( B ) based upon the number ( N ) of beats heard?

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Question 416034: Which of the following represents the value of the expression

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Question 417102: Are these following pair of lines parallel, perpendicular, or neither? -3x+2y=4 and 2x+3y=-15
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Question 417108: M is the midpoint of . The coordinates of A are (-2,3) and the coordinates of M are (1,0).
Find the coordinates of B.
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Question 417579: Ol' MacDonald has a farm lot that is shaped like a rectangle 40 feet wide and 50 feet long. He wants to put a fence around three sides of the lot: both widths and one length. If the posts are to be 10 feet apart, how many posts does he need?
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Question 417900: On a golf course, the distance from the tee T to the hole H is 300m. A golfer drives her ball from T to a point A where TA=260m and ∠ATH=6°, calculate the distance AH to the nearest metre, and ∠THA to the nearest degree.
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Question 417929: the length of a rectangle is 5 cm less than 3 times its width.if the perimeter of the rectangle is 54 ,what is the length and width???
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Question 418035: Please help me solve this question.
P(-3;10) and Q(3;4) are vertices of triangle PQR. If angle Q = 90 degrees determine the possible co-ordinates of R if QR = 4 sqrt( 2 )
Thanks :)
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Question 418751: After purchasing a new home, Ming bought 60 meters of fencing to enclose the square yard. How LARGE is his lawn?
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Question 421234: Find the distance between the pair of points
(-24,25) and (-25,7)
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