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Question 421929: Find the foci and vertices of the ellipse with equation x^2/9+y^2/16=1
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Question 422373: If r=-12, s=10, and S is the midpoint of RT, find t.
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Question 422495: What is the distance of the line segment connecting A(-2,4) and B (6,10)
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Question 425622: Robin Chang collected $175 in the second week of her school charity drive. This was $35 more than she collected in the first week. How much did she collect in the two weeks?

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Question 425811: Find the distance on this triangle.
These are the coordinates : (3,2) (3,7) (8,1)
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Question 426667: the coordinates of the vertices of a right triangle are (1,1) , (1,7) and (6,1) find the slope of the hypotenuse
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Question 426976: Point A has the coordinates (2,2). What are the coordinates of its image point if it is translated 2 units up and 5 units to the left, and reflected in the x axis?
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Question 426867: Please, Please help!
Suppose that the expression x2 + 7x +12 / (x+2)2 represents the area of a rectangle.
Find the expression for the perimeter of the rectangle.
I'm so confused.
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Question 427634: Hello Sir/Madam
I am having problems with my math and was wondering if you can provide a detailed explanation, describing the solution to my problem.
Question-Determine two sets of endpoints for a line of length root 5, which has a midpoint at (7,-4). Provide a diagram with your solution.
Thank you,
Chen
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Question 427989: it takes a passenger train 5 hr less time than it takes a freight train to make the trip from hughesville to rockville. the passenger train averages 105km/h while the freight train averages 70 km/h find the distance from rockville to hughesville.
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Question 428293: What is the distance between E(-7,6), F(2,0)
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Question 428337: Please help me with this problem! I have no clue how to do this.
Write the point-slope form of an equation of the line that passes through
(-2, 5) and has a slope of zero.
Thanks so much!!!! :)
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Question 428540: You make a deposit of 2000 € into your account. The interest rate is 5% and the interest is added into the account first after one year and then annually. How long will it take your savings to grow to 10000 €?
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Question 428606: A tree is standing next to a 40-foot high building. The tree has an 18-foot shadow, while the building has a 16-foot shadow. How tall is the tree, rounded to the nearest foot?

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Question 429824: what is the length of the line segment connecting (2,-2) and (-3,-1)?
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Question 430527: If an object is 100 pounds at sea level, what is the value of c that makes the equation true? sea level is 3963 miles from the center of the earth.
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Question 430495: The length of the diagonal of a rectangle is 22 cm. What is the measure of a line segment that joins the midpoints of two consecutive sides of the rectangle?
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Question 430942: If one 30 - 60 - 90 triangle has a short leg 8 inches long, and another has a short leg 24 inches long, find the areas of each triangle, and compare their sizes. Why do you think the areas have the ratio that they do? What would that ratio be if the two triangles had short legs 5 and 20 inches long?
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Question 431028: Find the distance between the two points (7,10) and (17,34)
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Question 435589: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
A(4,5),B(-3,-2)
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Question 435592: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
E(-7,6),F(2,0)
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Question 435597: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
J(1,1),K(-1,11)
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Question 435612: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
A(4,5),B(-3,-2)
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Question 435629: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
S(9,-1),T(2,-6)
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Question 435627: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
S(9,-1),T(2,-6)
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Question 435625: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
S(9,-1),T(2,-6)
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Question 435616: Find the distance between the two points. Round your result to two decimal places.
P(8,-4),Q(1,-4)
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Question 436103: The recreational area of two parks is similar. One park has dimensions 21 feet by 52 feet. The other park's shortest dimension is 84 feet. How long is it?
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Question 436414: Oil tanker A leaves Corpus Christi, Texas heading due east toward St. Petersburg, Florida at a speed of 15 mph. At the same time, tanker B leaves St. Petersburg, Florida heading due west toward Corpus Christi, Texas at a speed of 29 mph. The distance between the two ports is 900 miles.
A. How far are the tankers from Corpus Christi when they meet?
B. Write a compound inequality for the time interval during which they are within 110 miles of eachother.
(round all answers to the nearest hundredth)
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Question 436839: tom's height is 1.8m. he stands near a tree. at 4pm the length of his shadow is 2.7m and the tree is 6.3m. what is the height of the tree?
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Question 437717: A tree stands 24 ft with an 8ft shadow. A tree next to it stands 72 ft. whats it shadow?? i came up with 24 ft but I'm not so sure I am right. please help! as always its greatly appreciated (:
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Question 438239: Please help with this question,I'm really stock.I need this tomorrow.Thank you..
A cross country race course on flat ground has runners,Jedd and Rodney, heading from point A for 3.5km on a bearing of 047degrees temperature to point B. From B they turn and run for 2.8km on a bearing of 342degrees temperature to point C. They then run back to point A.
(a.) Determine the distance from C back to A.
(b.) At what bearing does the course follow from C back to A?
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Question 438699: WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY A LOT LOCATED IN A STATE FOREST.
IT IS .18 ACRES AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MUCH LAND IS THAT, AS WE KNOW IT IS AROUND 7800 SQ. FT. BUT NEED TO PICTURE THE WHOLE LOT AND IF IT WORTH THE ASKING PRICE BY THE SELLER, AS TO A HOUSE LOT HOW BIG IS IT
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Question 439120: A board 40 cm long is cut into two pieces. One piece is 4 cm longer than twice the length of the other piece. Find the length of each piece.
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Question 439891: A wooden picture frame measures 14 inches by 9 inches on the outside of the frame. It is 2 inches wide all the way around. What is the area of the wooden frame?
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Question 440043: Please help me with this question.I really need this tomorrow.Thank you very much!!
Travis,the helicopter pilot, on a search and rescue mission, flying at an altitude of 800m and heading due west,sees an upturned dingy (D) at an angle of depression of 18degrees (from A). Maintaining this altitude,fifty seconds later(at B), Travis notices that the angle of depression is now 42degrees.
(a.) How far has the helicopter travelled in the fifty seconds?
(b.) Give the speed of the helicopter in meters per second?
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Question 440256: The ratio of the with to the height of Tim's computer monitor screen is 6:5.
if the screen is 12 inches high, how wide is it?

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Question 440293: A soccer ball is kicked. Its height above the ground can be approximated by using the equation, h=36t-6t^2, where h is the height above the ground in meters and t is the time in seconds. What are the Zeros of this relation?
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Question 442314: please help me solve this problem ---> Jerry drew a line segment with endpoints at (-5,3) and (1,-5). What is the lenth of Jerry's line segment ?
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Question 442380: what is the length of a line segment connecting (2,-2)and(-3,-1)
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Question 442382: Find coordinates for the point equidistant from (2,1) (2,-4) (-3,1)
Please i really need your help ! thankyou
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