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Question 637007: Hi Guys - Pretty basic algebraic question here however it would be great if you could provide some assistance.
A rectangle is x cm long and y cm wide. There is a frame around the mirrior, which is m cm wide on all four sides.
Questions:
Write a formula for the area of the mirror and frame.
Is your answer a sum or a product, how do you decide?
How can this be answered?
Thanks,
Dom.
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Question 637383: The length of a rectangle is 15 inches, and its width is 10 inches. If the perimeter must remain 50 inches, and the length is increased by 3 inches, by how much must the width be decreased?
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Question 637790: two cars are 525 apart. They start at the same time and travel toward each other. One travels at the rate of 55mph and the other at a rate of 50mph. In how many hours will they meet?
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Question 637860: find the dimensions of a rectangular garden that has a perimeter 100 ft and area 300 ft squared.
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Question 637980: what is an expression for the perimeter of a rectangle. l=14cm w=8cm?
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Question 637975: The width of a rectangle is two less than its length. If the area of the rectangle is 42, what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 638398: the perimeter of a tablecloth is 360 inches. the length is 36 inches greater than the width. find the width.
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Question 638673: the length and width of a rectangle are in the ratio of 3 to 3.if the perimeter is 80cm,calculate.the width,the length of a diagonal, the area of the rectangle
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Question 639535: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet less than twice the width of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 414 feet, find the width and the length.
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Question 639573: a rectangle has an area of 84 square cm. what are the possible dimensions?
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Question 639933: what is the volume of a triangular prism that has a base area of 30 mm2 and a height of 18 mm?
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Question 640128: Find the range that gives all possible values for B.
A) 0 < B < 16
B) 0 < B < 32
C) 1 < B < 32
D) 1 < B < 16
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Question 640305: The perimeter of rectangle ABCD is 40 ft. If BC is 3 times as long as CD, what is the length of AD? (BC and CD are suppose to have lines on top of them, and ABCD are points on each corner of a rectangle).
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Question 640428: 3) The length of a rectangle is 2 in. more than the width. If the length and width are each increased by 3 in., the perimeter of the new rectangle will be 4 in. less than 8 times the width of the original rectangle. Find the original dimensions of the rectangle.
Please help, I have no idea how to even start this!
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Question 640616: What are the dimensions of a rectangle with the perimeter of 24 feet?
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Question 641365: Find three consecutive integers such that the sum of the first two integers is 24 more than the third integer
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Question 641457: What is the perimeter in terms of x? If the base is 2x and the height is x+3?
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Question 641836: a rectangular room that is 2 feet longer than it is wide has an area of 120 square feet. how many feet long is the room?
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Question 642069: it takes 7 yards of material to make 3 jackets. You brought 15 yards of material to make 7 jackets. Did you buy the right amount of material? if not, how much over or under where you? explain
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Question 642220: i have a square that is 34 inches what is the diagnal ??
thank you
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Question 642305: Jasmin drew a rectangle.
Area is 32 centimeters
Length is twice the width
What is perimeter?
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Question 643122: What is the Dimensions for a rectangle that is 2x+3 by 2x-4????
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Question 643331: A piece of wire is bent into the shape of a rectangle whose length is three times its width.Find the length of the rectangle .

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Question 643508: What is the area of a field 25 yards long and 15 feet wide?
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Question 644115: An ? is a shorthand notation for repeated multiplication of the same factor
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Question 644116: to find the ? of a number is one of two identical factors of the number
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Question 644074: A rectangle has a width five feet shorter than its length. The perimeter of the rectangle is 112ft. Find the length and width.

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Question 644251: a rectangle's length is 5 yards more than 3 times its width find an expression for the perimeter of the rectangle
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Question 644250: a rectangle's length is 5 yards more than 3 times its width
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Question 644248: 80 cm + 13.0 cm =
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Question 644262: Calculate the area of a rectangle with a length of 12.0 cm and a width of 86.0 mm.

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Question 644510: a rug has a primeter of 320 feet. the length is 7 times longer than the width, find the length and width
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Question 644665: The perimeter of a rectangle equals the sum of the lengths of it's four sides. If the width of a rectangle is 6 inches and it's perimeter is 46inches, find the length of the rectangle.
I need to show how this problem is solved, and other than using addition (I think) I don't know how to solve it. Thank you very much for your time.
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Question 644681: what happens to the length as the width decreases and why?

Length Width Area
1 15 15
2 14 28
3 13 39
4 12 48
5 11 55
6 10 60
7 9 63
8 8 64
9 7 63
10 6 60
11 5 55
12 4 48
13 3 39
14 2 28
15 1 15

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Question 644762: The length of a rectangle is 5 more than the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 168 inches. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 644807: the perimeter of a rectangle is 38m.Find the dimension of the rectangle that will contain the greatest area.

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Question 644850: First sorry for my bad english.
What are the sides of a rectangle with perimeter = 40 and area = 96?
I know they are 12 and 8 but I need the simplest solution.
Thanks in advance!
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Question 645115: At what measurements is the area the greatest?
Length Width Area
1 15 15
2 14 28
3 13 39
4 12 48
5 11 55
6 10 60
7 9 63
8 8 64
9 7 63
10 6 60
11 5 55
12 4 48
13 3 39
14 2 28
15 1 15

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Question 645193: Please help me find the area of a rectangle with side lengths of 2a/5b units and 3b/8 units
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Question 645343: The perimiter of a rectangle is 30m.
It's area is 56m2.
What is its length?

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Question 645651: area of a rectangle is 36 square inches and the length of the sides are intergers. Find the minimum perimeter of such a rectangle
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Question 645728: We are to investigate the rectangles with the perimeter of 32 centimeters.
How can invent some extensions or varitations to the problem???
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Question 646138: The width of a triangle is 1-inch shorter than the diagonal. Find the diagonal.
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