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Question 182530: i have a rectangular metal frame. The sides are 6 feet tall by 12 foot long horizontal pieces. what is the diagonal measurement of this rectangle?
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Question 182581: A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide, and its area is 32 square meters. Find the length and the width of the rectangle.
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Question 182825: The length of a rectangular garden is 5 feet longer than its width. The garden is surrounded by a 2-foot-wide sidewalk. The sidewalk has an area of 76 square feet. Find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 169119: Perimeter of a rectangle. What is the width of a rectangular playground that is
2x-5 feet and the length is 3x+9 feet. Can you please write a polynomial P(x) that represents the perimeter and then evalute this perimeter polynomial if x is 4 feet? Thanks!
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Question 183300: a rectangle is three times as long as it is wide. write and simplify an expression for the perimeter of the rectangle in the terms of the width "w".
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Question 183404: The perimeter of a rectangular field is yards. If the width of the field is yards, what is its length?
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Question 183666: an american flag measures 20 inches by 8 inches. What are the dimensions of an american flag with four times the area of the original flag and its dimensions in the same proportion as the original flag?
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Question 183956: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet more than twice its width, and 2 feet less than a diagonal's length. Find the length of the diagonal in simplest radical form.
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Question 183949: find the dimensions of a rectangle "a" with the greatest area whose perimetter is 30 feet
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Question 183949: find the dimensions of a rectangle "a" with the greatest area whose perimetter is 30 feet
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Question 184893: A rectangle has a perimeter of 90 m. It is twice as long as it is wide. Find the rectangle's dimensions.
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Question 185367: The length of a rectangle is three times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 192 cm^2 , find its perimeter.

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Question 185623: If w represents the width of a rectangle 12 inches long with an area of 500 square inches, what is the best algebraic equation for the area of the rectangle?

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Question 185794: 1. The length of each side of a square is 3x/4+1. What is the perimeter of the square?
2. One side of a rectangle is 18cm. If the perimeter is 50cm. what is the width of the rectangle?

Please show the solution so I can understand them.. Thank you in advance. Have agreat day..
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Question 185858: If i have the shortest side of a rectangle to be 8 how do i get the other three sides?
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Question 186111: I would like your help for this problem please. When the width of a certain rectangle is measured off against the length, it results in a square adjacent to a rectangle as shown. if the resulting rectangle is similar to the original, then both are "golden rectangles." find the ratio a over b
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Question 186558: Translate the following into a quadratic equation, and solve it: The length of a rectangular garden is four times its width; if the area of the garden is 196 square meters, what are its dimensions?

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Question 186761: Find the volume of a rectangular bread box that is 9 inches tall and has a base that is 18 inches by 12 inches.
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Question 186849: If the length of a rectangle is 3 feet longer than the width and the diagonal is 15 feet, then what are the length and the width?
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Question 187430: is a rhombus a parallelogram
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Question 187586: I have a triangle where the short length is 7 and the longer side is 24, I need to no what the diangonal would measure
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Question 187881: The width of a rectangle is 5ft less than the lenght. The area is 6ft^2. Find the length and the width
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Question 188211: A painting of farmland around Lancaster is 9 inches wide and 12 inches long. What is the length of the diagonal of the picture?
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Question 188304: The length of a rectangular graden is 5ft longer than its width. The garden is surrounded by a 2-foot-wide sidewalk. The sidewalk has an area of 76 sq ft. Find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 188352: Write and then simplify an expression for the perimerter of a rectangular pool that is twice as long as it is wide
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Question 188378: Perimeter of a rectangle is 200cm. The Area of the Rectangle is 2491 square cm. what is the size of the rectangle?

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Question 169121: Height difference. A red ball and a green ball are simultaneously tossed into the air. Teh red ball is given an initial velocity of 96 feet per second, and its height t seconds after it is tossed is -16t^2 + 96t feet. The green ball is given an initial velocity of 80 feet per second, and its height t seconds afer it is tossed is -16t^2 + 80t feet.
a.)Can you find polynomial D(t) that represents the difference in the height of the two balls?
b). How much higher is the red ball 2 seconds after the balls are tossed?
thanks!

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Question 188381: perimeter of a recatnagle is 200cm. area of the rectangle is 2491 square cm. what is the size of the rectangle?
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Question 188857: What are the dimensions of a rectangle with a perimeter of 80 inches if the length is 10 inches more than 2 times the width? Thank you for your help!
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Question 189126: the area of a rectangle is given by the equation 2L squared minus 5L equals 3, in which L is the rectangles length. what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 189234: Hello I have tried to figure out this problem for like two or three days and it just doesn't make since to me so if you could be so kind as to help me figure it out, I would be greatly appriciated. The question or the problem is:
The length of a rectangle is 1 less than three times it's width. The perimeter is 30 ft. Find the length of this rectangle.
You might not be able to figure it out either but if you can't I appriciate the offer anyways. Thank you so much for your help.
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Question 189256: What is the area of a rectangle that has a length of x-3 and a width of 7x-2
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Question 189367: what is the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 12inches and the length of its diagnal is 2 square root 45 inches
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Question 189513: 98). Area of a parallelogram. Find a trinomial A(x) that represents the area of a parallelogram whose base is 3x + 2 meters and whose height is 2x + 3 meters. Find A(3).

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Question 189593: the perimeter of a rectangle is 64 meters the length is 8 meters more then twice the width
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Question 189837: A developer wants to enclose a rectangle. If the developer has 200 feet of fencing and does not enclose one side, what is the largest area that can be enclosed?
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Question 190102: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet longer than the width. The permineter is 30 feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
a. length = 8 feet; width = 5 feet
b. length = 8 feet; width = 7 feet
c. length = 9 feet; width = 6 feet
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Question 190118: a rancher has 1000m of fencing to create 6 rectangular corrals of equal area. What is the maxmum total area and what are the dimensions of the enclosed area? (there is a diagram that has a rectangle with length=x and width=y and there are intesecting lines inbetween)
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Question 190396: If the diagonal of a rectangle is 17 in. and the width is 8 in. How are you supposed to find the length?
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Question 190467: The perimeter of a rectangle is 420 inches. The width is 4 inches less than the length. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 190530: find the length and width of a rectangle lot with a perimeter of 70 meters if the length is 5 meters more than the width.
i know the length is 20 and the width is 15 but I need the formula or the steps of how to get the answer
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Question 190493: The length of a rectangle is four times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 196m2 , find its perimeter.

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Question 190619: The perimeter of a rectangle, given that the length is x yards and the width is 10 yards shorter?
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Question 190892: The total cost of a suit and a cost is $291. The coat cost twice as much as the suit. What is the equation to find how much the coat cost?
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