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Question 295432: A young man 150 cm tall cast a shadow that was 200 cm long. His father's shadow, cast at the same time of day, was 240 cm long. How tall was his father?
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Question 295435: A young man 150 cm tall cast a shadow that was 200 cm long. His father's shadow, cast at the same time of day, was 240 cm long. How tall was his father?
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Question 295437: Find the ordered pair that is a solution to the graphs y=2x + 3, y=x-2
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Question 295436: state the ordered pair that satisfies the equation 2x-5y= -1?
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Question 295436: state the ordered pair that satisfies the equation 2x-5y= -1?
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Question 295438: A flagpole 24 feet high is 10 feet away from the base of its anchor cable. How long is the anchor cable?
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Question 295609: The unit of measure for a line is in inches. Use the distance formula to find the length of the line with points at (-3,0) and (4,3).
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Question 297617: Suppose 240 square tiles, each 25 centimeters on each side, are needed to cover a rectangular floor. The floor is 5 meters long. How wide is the floor?
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Question 298529: if the ratio of something is 1 to 1.9 and its 25 sqaure feet whats the length and height of the object
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Question 298784: If the minute hand of a big clock is 1.12m long, find the rate at which its tip is moving in centimetres per minute.
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Question 299441:

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Question 299441:

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Question 299715: what are the possible coordinates of a point where the line y=x-4 and the circle x^2+y^2=40 meet. thank you !!!!!
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Question 299910: At $23 per square yard, what would carpet cost for a room that measures 36 feet by 12 feet?
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Question 300137: A flagpole 24 feet high is 10 feet away from its anchor cable. How long is the anchor cable? My origninal answer was 30 feet. Is this correct
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Question 300391: YZ has endpoints Y(0,5) and Z(12,3).
find the length of YZ to the nearest tenth.
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Question 301013: Indicate in standard form the equation of the line passing through the given points.
R(3, 3), S(-6, -6)

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Question 301412: what is the circunference of a circle 748sqcms
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Question 301510: if a sign has a radius of 1.4 meters, how high is it?
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Question 302207: if there is no waste, how many square yards of carpeting is needed to cover a rectangular floor that is 12 feet by 18 feet ?
a 8 b 16 c 24 d 30 e 216
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Question 302671:
There is an equilateral triangle where each side is 2x-7, x+y-9 and y+5
Calculate the value of x and find the length of the sides of the triangle
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Question 302736: In a triangle ABC, there is an angle A that is 50degrees, angle C is 90 degrees, and BC = 7. What is length AB and length AC? Thanks for your help.

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Question 303290: What is the approximate length of when the coordinates of its endpoints are (–4, 5) and (–6, 9)?
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Question 303582: the length of a rectangle is twice its width its perimeter is 36 centimeters find the area of the rectangle
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Question 303608: P(3,2) q (7,2) r(7,4)
the coordinates of points p,q, and r in the xy-plane are given above . what is the perimeter of triangle pqr ?
a 12 b 14 c 6+ √20 d 6+ √32 e √164

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Question 304102: The following are coordinates of points in the xy-plane . which of these points is nearest the origin ?
a (0,-1) b (0,1/2) c (1/2,-1/2) d (1/2,1/2) e (-1,-1)

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Question 304672: given that two points on line m are P(7,11) and Q(12,9), write a ratio expressing the slope of m.
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Question 304664: how many gallons of water to fill up a rectangular pond when it is 10ft long, 7ft wide, 18in deep?
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Question 304924: Line segment CD is tangent to circle Z at (1,7). If Z has coordinates (5,2), find the slope of line segment CD.
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Question 304924: Line segment CD is tangent to circle Z at (1,7). If Z has coordinates (5,2), find the slope of line segment CD.
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Question 304925: Write the equation of a circle with a diameter having endpoints at (-2,6) and (8,4).
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Question 305672: what are original dimensions- The length of a rectangle is three times its width. If the width were increased by 4 and the length remained the same, the resulting rectangle would have an area of 231 square inches. Find the demensions of the ORIGINAL rectangle.

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Question 305804: The legs of a right triangle are 32 and 17 inches long, respectively. What is the area of the triangle?
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Question 305931: here goes i'm suppose to find the intercepts of
y=-2x + 3
2x + 3y = 3
can you help

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Question 305999: A contractor needs to cut a piect of glass to fit a square window the area of the window is 12 foot squared. Find the length of the side of the window to the nearest 10th of a foot.
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Question 306772: find the slope and y intercept of these lines.
5x - 2y + 8 = 0
first try:
I got m = 1 ; y intercept = -40
2nd attempt:
m = 5/8 ; y intercept = 8
third try:
m = 5/2 ; y intercept = -8
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Question 306868: Each set of three points is collinear. Find each missing x- or y-value. Enter each answer to the nearest hundredth.

(6, 10.2), (1.5, 3.45), (x, 2.85)
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Question 307111: Given that the points on line m are P(7,11) and Q(12,9) what is a ratio of the slope of m?
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Question 307115: Solve the proportion 6/7 = 21/10w
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Question 307748: car A and car B leave the same time in opposite directions in a straight line fashion. speed of car A = 45mph. speed of car B = 55mph. After how many hours are they separated 800 miles?
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Question 309841: HELP!!!
If there were no air resistance, then the height
(in feet) above the earth for a skydiver t seconds after
jumping from an airplane at 10,000 feet would be given by
h(t)16t2 10,000.
a) Find the time that it would take to fall to earth with no
air resistance; that is, find t for which h(t) 0. A
skydiver actually gets about twice as much free fall
time due to air resistance.
b) Use the accompanying graph to determine whether the
skydiver (with no air resistance) falls farther in the first
5 seconds or the last 5 seconds of the fall.
c) Is the skydiver’s velocity increasing or decreasing as
she falls?
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Question 310200: A piece of rope 36 feet long is to be cut into two piecies so that one piece is 1/3 as long as the other piece. How many feet long will the shorter piece be?

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Question 310622: find the measure, to the nearest tenth, of a rectangle with dimensions 16cm by 9cm.
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