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Question 625390: The Palmyra Triangle has a perimeter of 4800 miles. The side of middle length is 3 times as long as the shortest side. The longest side is 4 times as long as the middle side. How long is each side?
The shortest side is ___ miles long.
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Question 625432: If the perimeter of a rectangle is 80ft, what is its area? How would I solve this?
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Question 625454: The perimeter of a rectangle is 400 yards. What are the dimensions of the rectangle if the length is 50 yards more than the width?
The length is ___ yards and the width is ____ yards.
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Question 625437: The perimeter of a rectangle is 400 yards. What are the dimensions of the rectangle if the length is 20 yards more than the width?
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Question 625527: Find the dimensions of a rectangle if the area equals 100 and the proportion is 4:3. Hello I am puzzled by this question but I think I have a start.I tried setting up a equation such that (3k)(4k)=100.
If anybody could help me by guiding me to correct way to solve this type of problem I would greatly appreciate it THANKS
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Question 625524: .can you please help me solve this problem. i am stuck.
Find the length of a rectangular lot with a perimeter of 96 meters if the
length is 8 meters more than the width. (P = 2L + 2W)

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Question 625498: the length of a rectangle is six times its width. if the area of the rectangle is 384 yards squared find its perimeter
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Question 625743: a rectangle is 1 2/5 inches by 2 1/2 inches , what is the perimeter ?
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Question 625766: The length of a rectangle is 12 inches. Find the area of the rectangle if the perimeter is 120 inches.
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Question 625852: A rectangle and a triangle have equal areas. The length of the rectangle is 12 inches, and its width is 8 inches. If the base of the triangle is 32 inches, what is the length, in inches, of the altitude drawn to the base?

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Question 626052: The perimeter of a window is 32 feet. The width is 6 times bigger than the length. What is the width?
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Question 626255: write and simplify an expression for the perimeter of the rectangle.
rectangle sides 2x
top and bottom x

Thanks

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Question 626450: The perimeter of a rectangle is twie as long as it is wide is 90 meters. finds the area?
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Question 626430: a rectangle length is 40cm and its diagonals is 41 cm.then what its area?
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Question 626617: I would like you to help me on solving this problem.
The perimeter of a rectangle is 32cm. Find it's dimension if the length is 4cm longer than it's width.
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Question 626780: The perimeter of a rectangle equals the sun of the lengths of its four sides. If the width of a rectangle is 6 inches and its perimeter is 46 inches, find the length of the rectangle.
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Question 626824: The rectangular floor of a
shed has a length 4 feet longer than its width, and its
area is 140 square feet. Let x be the width of the floor.
(a) Write a quadratic equation whose solution gives
the width of the floor.
(b) Solve this equation.

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Question 626852: The perimeter of a rectangle is 46ft the length is 5 ft longer than its width what are the dimensions?
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Question 626939: 1. )Find the length of the diagonal of a rectangle whose sides are 24 cm and 35 cm.
2.) Solve for the area of a square whose diagonal is 16 √2 cm long.
3. What is the area of a right triangle if the hypotenuse is 35 cm and the shorter leg is 21 cm.
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Question 627028: The length of a rectangle is twice its width.
If the area of the rectangle is 72 ft, what is its perimeter?

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Question 627016: The length of a rectangle is 6 inches more than three times the width. The perimeter is 92 inches. Find the length and width.

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Question 627172: The height of a triangle is 4 centimeters more than three times the base. If the area is 32 square centimeters, find the base and the height.
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Question 628045: Find the area of a picture 2 1/6inches by 1 1/3inches
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Question 628466: A quality control inspector found 6 defective video cassettes in a shipment of 4000 cassettes. At this rate, how many cassettes would be expected to be defective in a shipment of 10,000 cassettes?
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Question 628653: Find the length and width of a rectangle that has area 55 square centimeters and a minimum perimeter. Round your answer to one decimal place.
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Question 628654: The sum of two positive numbers is 19 and the product is a maximum. What are the numbers? Round your answer to one decimal place.
The first number is:

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Question 628672: The sum of two positive numbers is 9 and the product is a maximum. What are the numbers? Round your answer to one decimal place.
Whats the first number?
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Question 629035: the perimeter of a rectangle is 100cm, and its diagonal has length x. express the area of the rectangle as a function of x.
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Question 629137: area of a rectangle is 40 cm squared and one of its sides is 8 cm long.what is the width and perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 629172: the width of a rectangle is half as long as length. the rectangle has an area of 32 square feet. what are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 629209: If you fold a square paper vertically, the new rectangle has a perimeter of 39 inches. What is the area of the original square? What is the perimeter of the original square? What is the area of the resulting rectangle?
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Question 629176: two consectutive negative intergers have a product of 6. what are they
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Question 629229: A gardener is fencing off a rectangular area with a fixed perimeter of 92 feet. What is the maximum area ?
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Question 629229: A gardener is fencing off a rectangular area with a fixed perimeter of 92 feet. What is the maximum area ?
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Question 629703: A square has a diagonal that is 34yd long. What is the area of the square?
If necessary, round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Question 629731: i am a square with a side length of 7 units. what is my area?
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Question 629731: i am a square with a side length of 7 units. what is my area?
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Question 629827: a sheet of metal is 9 inches longer than it is wide, and it's total area is 252 square inches. what equation can you use to solve this?
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Question 629930: A rectangular field is six feet longer than it is wide. If its perimetaer is 72 feet, what are the demensions of the field?.
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Question 629247: The length of a rectangle is four times it's width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 60 cm, find its area.
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Question 629916: find the dimensions of a rectangle whose area is 144sq.meter

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Question 626245: L OF A RECTANGLE IS 5 MORE THAN THE WIDTH PERIMETER IS 34
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Question 625904: The area of a rectangle must be at least 119 square feet. If the lenght is 7 feet, find the minimum for rectangle's width.
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