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Question 286089: The width of a rectangle is two less than its length. If the area is 48 cm squared, what are the measures of the rectangle's length and width?
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Question 286160: The Length of a pool is 3 times its width and the pool is surrounded by a grass walk 4 feet wide. If the total area enclosed by the walk(of uniform width) is 684 square feet, find the dimensions of the pool.
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Question 286156: A rectangle has an area of 60 square meters and a perimeter of 38 meters. find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 286102: The perimeter of a rectangle is 114 centimeters. If the ratio of its width to its lenght is 7 to 12, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 286200: the length of a rectanglular rug is 8ft. if the area is 40 feet, what is the perimeter of the rug
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Question 286232: 10. The perimeter of a rectangular room is 164 feet. Find the length and width of the room if the length is 4 feet longer than twice the width
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Question 286282: The perimeter if a square is 72 inches. Find the measure of the diagonal
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Question 286282: The perimeter if a square is 72 inches. Find the measure of the diagonal
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Question 286197: the length of a rectanglular rug is 8ft. if the area is 40 feet, what is the perimeter of the rug
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Question 286216: 1.area of a rectangle is 33 square inches. If the length is 2 more than three times the width, find the length and the width.
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Question 286505: the width of rectangle is 5 feet and the diagonal is 9 feet. what is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 286804: The combined area of two squares is 40 square centimeters. The side of one square is three times as long as the side of the other square. Find the dimensions of the larger square.
A. −2 cm × − 2 cm B. 3 cm × 3 cm C. 2 cm × 2 cm D. 6 cm × 6 cm
E. None of these.

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Question 286894: An aquarium holding African ciclids is 5 inches higher than it is wide. Its lengh is 27 inches and its volume is 4050 cubic inches.
What are the height and width of the aquarium?
Height = inches
Width = inches
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Question 286962: the length of a rectangular parking lot is 10 meters less than twice its width, and the perimeter is 370 meters, find the length of the rectangular parking lot.
L = ____ meters
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Question 286982: 'In rectangle ABCD, two consecutive sides and the diagonal are all consecutive integers. Find the area of the rectangle.'
This is the question on my homework and I have no idea how to solve it- could you please help me?
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Question 286991: In rectangle ABCD, AB=(x-5y+94), BC= 3x+2y-82), CD= (4x-6y+55), and DA= (5x+4y-164). Find the perimeter of the rectangle.
Could you please help me on this problem?

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Question 287097: state flag is rectangular and has a width to length ratio of 2:3.
if width is 28 inches, how do you find the length. Please help. I have
been struggling with this for 2 hours. Thanks
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Question 286995: A squire picture is mounted in a frame 1 cm wide. The area of the picture is 2/3 of the total area. Find the length of a side of the picture.

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Question 287115: Hello! I need some assistance on how to find a missing side of a rectangle. The question is: Mary drew a model of her school, the length of the school is 27ft and the width is 84ft. The model's width is 3ft and the length is "x". What length in feet, is x? I'm not completely sure on how to begin this problem, or at least how to set up an equation to try to solve this problem.If you could please help on how to solve this problem, it would be most appreciative. Thank You!
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Question 287100: the length of a rectangle is 5cm. greater than twice its width. if the perimeter is 52 cm., what is the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 287301: The length of a rectangle is 13 feet shorter than the diagonal. The width is 6 feet shorter than the diagonal. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Is this a right triangle? Explain. (You will get no credit unless your explanation makes sense.)
The sides are 73 inches, 55 inches and 48 inches.

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Question 287446: i need the length,width,area,and perimeter..of a rectangle with the area of24 square meters and a perimeter of 96 meters
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Question 287547: the official ratio of width to length for the US flag is 10 to 19. If a flag is 45 inches wide, what is the length of the flag? thanks for your help
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Question 287159: among all rectangles having a perimeter of 25 m, find the dimensions of the one with the largest area. _____ m by ______ m

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Question 287687: how do i find the area of a rectangle???
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Question 287554: Ricardo wants to design a rectangular window whose perimeter is 84 inches. What dimensions will maximize the area?
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Question 287524: The perimeter of a rectangle is 34 feet, the diagonal is 13 feet. What is the length and the width?
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Question 287752: A rectangle is 15 yards long and 10 feet wide. Find its area.
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Question 287754: The length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than its width. The area of the rectangle is 15 inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 287824: determine the combined capacity of these three round peices of pipe if they all have a diameter of 10 inches? (round to the nearest tenth).
piece A= 6' 3"
piece B= 6' 8"
piece C= 7' 7"
the total length of the pipe is 20' 6"
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Question 287826: determine the diameter of a circle having a circumference of 7'- 61/2". please express your answer in feet and inches to the nearest 1/16.
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Question 287822: determine the area of a triangle having a base of 3 1/2 inches and a height of 2 1/2 inches.
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Question 287823: what is the area of a circle having a diameter of 6 feet - 6 inches? Please express answer in square inches and feet.
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Question 287821: find the perimeter of a rectangle having a length of 8 feet - 4 inches and a width of 5 feet - 7 inches. Express answer in feet and inches please.
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Question 286736: The width of a rectangle is 4 meters less than its length. The area is 140 square meters. Find the length of the rectangle
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Question 288001: Suppose that the width of a rectangle is 5 inches shorter than the length and that the perimeter of the rectangle is 50 inches. Set up an equation for the perimeter involving only L, the length in the rectangle.
Also solve this equation algebraically to find the length of the rectangle. Find the width as well.
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Question 287957: a rectangle is 54 square feet. the lenth is 15 feet more that the width. write an equasion. what is the width and the legth?
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Question 288056: There are 32 vertical fence posts enclosing a rectangular field. The posts are evenly spaced and 2m apart . there are 10 posts along the length of the field . find the area of the field in square meters
A 180 b 252 c 60 d 168 e 308

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Question 288163: the length of a rectangle is 4in longer than its with.if the perimeter is 28in find its area
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Question 287766: draw a rectangle whose perimeter equals 24 inches and whose area is less than 30 square inches
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Question 288284: The length of a rectangle is increased by 15% and the width is decreased by
20%. Compared to the area of the original rectangle,the area of the new
rectangle is
(a) 8% less (b) 5% less (c) the same (d) 5% more (e) l2% more
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Question 288270: A square piece of paper is folded in half to form a rectangle . this rectangle has a perimeter of 18cm . the area of the original square in cm^2 is
A 9 b 12 c 18 d 24 e 36

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Question 288390: what is the length and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 24m and the area is 35m2?
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