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Question 613353: The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 inches. The length is 3 inches less than twice the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 613598: The length of a rectangular garden is 2 feet longer than 3 times its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 100 feet, find the width and length of the garden
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Question 613635: A rectangle has a length that is 5 feet more than its width. The area of this rectangle is 84 square feet. What is the width and length of this rectangle?
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Question 613784: the lenghts of a rectangle is 6 in more than twice the width and the perimeter is greater than 36 in what is the width of the rectangle
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Question 614149: a swimming pool has an area of 40 square meters and a perimeter of 26 meters. What is the length and width of the swimming pool? Is it possible for another pool to have the same area but a larger perimeter ?
I think the length would be 10meters and 3 meters wide ? not sure how to do the rest
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Question 614219: What is the perimeter of a rectangle having side lengths of 3 m and 1 m
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Question 614158: The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 96cm.find the the length of of a side of it
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Question 614900: The area of a rectangle is 243 in^2. If the base is reduced to one-third its original length and the height is doubled, what would its new area be?
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Question 614333: the length of a rectangle is 6 centimeters less than four times its width. If the area is 40 square centimeters, find the length and width.
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Question 615068: A 50m by 20m rectangular lawn is mowed by cuting a uniform strip along it's perimeter. This leaves 4/5 of the lawn area uncut. Determing the width of the cutto the nearest hundredth of a meter
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Question 615209: What is the area of a square with the vertices (3,3),(6,6),(9,3)and (6,0)
A 3 square root of 2 units
B 12 square root of 2 units^2
C 18 units^2
D 36 units^2
this problem has been giving me the biggest headache if you would be so kind to send me the steps of how you solved it i would be very grateful
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Question 615459: The length of a rectangle is 6 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 98 feet. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 615494: In paralellogram PQRS, angle Q is a right angle. Is PQRS a rectangle ?
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Question 615784: Find two numbers that have a sum of 60 and a difference of 36
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Question 615886: Ramon is designing a rectangular garden with a width of 8ft. The path that leads diagonally across the garden is 2ft longer than the length of the garden. How long is the path?
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Question 616301: What is the greatest perimeter of a rectangle with area 64 cm2?
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Question 616301: What is the greatest perimeter of a rectangle with area 64 cm2?
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Question 616341: A rectangle has an area of 196 m2 and a minimum perimeter. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 616334: If a rectangular garden has perimeter of 36ft, and the garden covers the greatest possible area, what should its dimensions be?
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Question 616703: Question: Determine the dimension of a rectangle with a perimeter of 40cm and the greatest possible area.
Book's answer is: 10cm by 10cm
I do not get how can you get 10cm by 10cm, if it is a rectangle.
Please help me! Thank you.
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Question 616775: length900cm and width= 6m
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Question 616885: Joshua visits the computer shop every 6 days while Jacob visits the same place every 8 days. If they both visit the computer shop on July 1, what is the earliest date when they will both visit the computer shop again?
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Question 616884: The area of a rectangle field is 9,000 square meters. if the ratio of the width to the length is 5 is to 8, what is the length of the rectangular field in meters?
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Question 617061: Find the perimeter of the square with the length 6.66 yd
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Question 617169: The length is 3 more than 2 times the width. If I know that the length is 39 feet, what is the width?

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Question 617185: hi! i have a question i need help on about rectangles. this is the problem.
a rectangle is 6 cm long and 4cm wide. if each dimension is increased by the same number of centimeters, a new rectangle is formed whose area is 39 square centimeters more than the area of the original rectangle. By how many centimeters was each dimension increased?
thank you

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Question 617684: Suppose two sides of a square are given as x + 3 and 12 - x. What is its area?
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Question 618102:
Note: Figure not drawn to scale.
If W = 20 units, X = 36 units, Y = 30 units, and Z = 26 units, then what is the surface area of the right rectangular pyramid shown above?

2,256 units2
3,792 units2
3,072 units2
1,488 units2

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Question 618173: A rectangle has a perimeter of 68 inches the base is 15 feet wide. What is the height ?
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Question 618187: A square has a base of 17 inches. What is its height?
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Question 618223: the length of a rectangle is twice its width. if the perimeter is 204cm what is the width and area?
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Question 618392: In the coordinate plane, 3 vertices of rectangle MNOP are M(0,0) N(0,c) P(d,0). What are the coordinates of point O?
I am trying to help my daughter with this and sadly do not know where to begin to show her how to figure this out. Can you point me in the right direction? I tried using graph paper and drawing it out, but still remain lost.
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Question 618681: The width of a rectangle is 3cm less than 2/3 of its length. The perimeter is 114cm. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 618824: The length of a rectangle is 2 feet more than twice the width. The perimeter is 34 feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 618865: If a cabin has an area of 528 square feet and its length is 18' what is the width of the cabin?

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Question 618968: the area of a rectangle is 243 centimeters cubed. The length is 3 times greater than the width. what are the dimensions
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Question 619062: The perimeter of a rectangle is 44 meters the length is 10 meters more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
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Question 619070: The diagram shows a rectangle , (2x-1)cm (x+4)cm
One of the sides is 11cm.
work out the two possible values of x
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Question 619279: please help me solve this problem : the length of a rectangle is 4 ft longer than twice the width. If the perimeter is 74 ft. find the length and the width
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Question 619667: if width of a reactangular field is 44 ft and height of a rectangular field is 39 ft,then area of a reactangular field is ?
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Question 620046: the length of a rectangle is twice the width the area is 50 square inches .find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 620177: rectangle has a perimeter of 39cm. In square centimeters, find the area of the original square piece of paper.
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Question 620199: suppose a rectangle has area 81 square centimeters. one side is 24 centimeters longer than the other. find the lengths of the sides of the rectangle.
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Question 620108: a rectangle with a perimeter of 102 inches is half as wide as it is long determine the length of this rectangle in inches
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