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Question 475846: If the radius of a sphere is halved, how is the volume and surface area affected?
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Question 475826: A cylinder 1 foot long and with a 6 inch radius is filled with water. A metal ball is dropped into the cylinder, and raises the water level two inches. Find the surface area of the sphere.
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Question 475824: An ice cream cone with altitude of 15 cm and radius of 3 cm has a perfect hemisphere of ice cream situated atop. There is also a spherical cherry of diameter 1 cm. Find the total volume of food.
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Question 476036: Hello! In this question, there is a circle inscribed in a square with a width of 4cm. Find the radius of a circle tangent to the circle and two edges of the square.

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Question 476900: If a pyramid has an octagon for a base, how many lateral faces does it have?
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Question 478051: Lou is roping a boundary for an event at a local carnival. She has 144 feet of rope, and the event supervisor has instructed her to rope an area that is three times as long as it is wide. Find the length of each roped side.
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Question 478149: please help me solve this question: each interior angle of a regular polygon is four times the measure of each exterior angle. how many diagonals does the polygon have?

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Question 478502: Interior angles of an octagon ABCDEFGH are in A.P.the largest and second an average of 153.find the average of least two.
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Question 479357: the measure of one interior angle of a 75 sided regular polygon.
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Question 480125: How many different one-to-one correspondences could be listed between the vertices of two regular hexagons ?
How many different one-to-one correspondences could be listed between the vertices of two regular n-gons?
Thank you!
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Question 480524: given a polygon with 5 sides find the sum of the measures of the exterior angles
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Question 480882: Deteremine the number of diagonals of a regular 79-gon.

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Question 480878: what is the sum of angles in a 516gon
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Question 480877: what is the measure of each angle in a regular 1000gon?
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Question 481675: what is the measure of each angle of the octagon of the sum of the interior angles is 1,080 and each angle is the same measure
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Question 481970: what is the measure of the exterior angles of a 20-gon?
Also the interior angles?
thank you!
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Question 482720: If the angle of a pentagon could be x, 2x, 3x, 4x, and 5x.what would be the value of x
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Question 483093: What has nine angles nine vertices and nine sides ?
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Question 484487: a) graph the lines x=6, x=0, and y=x+4
b) what type of quadrilateral do the lines form?
c) find the area of the quadrilateral
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Question 484500: a) graph the lines x=0, x=6, y=0 and y=x+4
b) what type of quadrilateral do the lines form?
c) find the area of the quadrilateral
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Question 484541: the area of a parallelogram is 24 in^2 and the height is 6 in. Find the corresponding base.
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Question 485560: Directions: Collect and record your data. Calculate the height of the object. Be sure to show all of your work!

1. Your measurements
_________________ Your height
_________________ Length of your shadow

2. Measurements of the tall object
________________ length of the object’s shadow
________________ calculated height of the object (You will fill in this blank once you have done the calculations.)

Questions
Directions: Use the data and calculations to answer the following questions and to write your essay.
1. What is the tall object you chose to measure?

2. Where were you when you measured the tall object?

3. Who helped you by measuring your shadow?

4. Do you think the time of day during which you took your measurements would affect your data? How?

Essay
Directions: Use the information above to help you to describe the process and results of your work. This paragraph should be at least five sentences long. You’ll need to include complete sentences, proper grammar, and correct spelling

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Question 485997: A pentagon has vertices of (10,0), (5,8), (0,12), (-6,0) and (0,-6). What fraction of its total area lies in the 4th quadrant?
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Question 488073: a regular hexagon is a six-sided figure with all six sides equal and all six angles equal. Find the perimeter of a regular hexagon with one side of 29 centimeters.
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Question 488216: A 12-sided polygon will contain ?? straight angles in the sum of its vertices. The answer is 10...but why? Thank you!!
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Question 490714: The measure of an interior angle of a regular polygon is given. Find the number of sides in each polygon.
157 1/2
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Question 492029: How many exterior angles are possible at each vertex of a given polygon? The exterior angles of a polygon depends on the number of interior angles
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Question 492600: describe one similarty between the geometry vertex and algebra vertex

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Question 493661: a regular n-gon has a vertex angle that measure 140 degrees. based on the measure for this n-gon find:
how many sides are there for this n-gon?
what is the measure of an exterior angle?
what is the measure of a central angle?
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Question 493808: The length of arc AB = 6π and the radius is 12. What is the degree measure of ∠AOB?
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Question 493801: What is the area of a circle with a radius of 9?
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Question 493798: What is the circumference of a circle with a radius of 2.3?
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Question 493796: What is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 4?
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Question 494493: The sum of interior angles of a regular polygon is 2880.
a) calculate the size of each exterior angle of the polygon.
b) calculate the size of each angle at the centre of the polygon.
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Question 494528: What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon with 53 sides
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Question 495102: please help me solve this: the perimeter is 84 meters, the length is 6 more than twice the width, what is the length and width
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Question 495596: one exterior angle of a regular polygon measures 30 degrees. what is the sum of the polygons interior angles measures?
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Question 497188: Find the number of sides in a polygon whose sum of the interior angles is 1440.
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Question 497956: how many sides does a 3x-gon have?
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Question 498942: what is the formula for the measure of one extrior angle of a polygon?
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Question 500144: Find the length of one side of a regular pentagon whose
perimeter is the same as the perimeter of RST.

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Question 500499: The lengths (in inches) of two sides of a regular pentagon are represented by the expressions 5x-27 and 2x-6. Find the length of a side of the pentagon.
I'm not sure how to set this up, this section of geometry is confusing me.
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Question 501606: as the number of sides of a regular polygon increases does each interior angle increase or decrease in measure?
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