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Question 209737: A rectangular hole 3 cm wide and x cm long is cut in a rectangular sheet of metal that is 4 cm wide and y cm long. The length of the hole is 1 cm less than the length of the metal sheet. After the hole is cut, the area of the remaining metal sheet is 20 cm squared. Find the length of the hole(x) and the length of the metal sheet (y).

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Question 209856: I need help with this problem. The perimeter of a rectangle is 44 inches, and its area is 112 square inches. Find the length and width of the rectangle.

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Question 209982: Please help!!! What are the dimensions of a rectangle that equals 24?
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Question 210150: I was working on my Algebra and it came up with a Geometry Problem. Sorry Only thing I know of is that I must do x=3 . After that im lost.
Heres the Problem.
Find the length and width of a rectangle which has a perimeter of 24. And the Length is 3 inches greater then the width.
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Question 210115: A man has a 10-meter by 10-meter rectangular garden that he wants to fence. How many fence posts will he need if each corner has a post and posts are spaced 1 meter apart along the sides
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Question 210114: "Micheal drove to a friends house at a rate of 40mph. He returned the same way at a rate of 45mph. The driving time for the whole trip was 4hours. What is the distance Micheal travled?"
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Question 210231: Find the length of the side of a square if the diagonal is 3 ft. longer than a side.
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Question 210117: Tables at a wedding reception have six sides or eight sides and will be trimmed around the edges with lace. Each side on a given table is the same length, but a side on a six-sided table is 8 inches longer than a side on ane eight-sided table. One package of lace trims the eight-sided table with no excess. When the same package of lace trims the six-sided table, there are 2 inches of lace left over. What is the length of lace in one package
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Question 210201: need help with this: Give the demensions of rectanlges with perimeters of 70 feet and lenght-to-width ratios of 3 to 4, 4 to 5, and 1 to 1.
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Question 210359: Simon drew a rectangle whose width is 6 inches less than its length. The perimeter of the rectangle is 6 feet. What are the dimensions of the rectangle Simon drew?I need length and width in inches! Thanks a Bunch!
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Question 210368: Find the maximum area of 45 the given perimeter of a rectangle. State the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 210508: a square's side is n feet long and its perimeter is 20 feet. Write an equation for teh perimeter of this square

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Question 210514: The area of a rectangle is 120 sq. ft. the length is one less than the width. What is the width of the rectangle.

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Question 210656: Find The Demensions Of a recatngle whose length is 3 more than twice its width and has a perimeter of 30 centimenters

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Question 209995: If the Perimeter of a rectangle is 40 and the diagonal is 12 find the area.
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Question 210727: The perimeter of a rectangle is 44 inches and its area is 112 square inches. Find the length and width of the retangel.
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Question 210788: if a rectangle has an area of 875 sq ft what is its length, perimeter, width
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Question 210781: Your parents need to create a rectangular area for your dog to play in outside. They have 360 feet of wiring to distribute in the backyard. If you want your parents to create the maximum area for your dog to play in, what should the dimesions be?
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Question 210868: The perimeter of a rectangle is 7x+10. If the length of the rectangle is 5, express the width in terms of x.
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Question 211034: a few questions that i need to check my work on
The length (L) of a rectangle is 2 feet less than 10 times its width (W). If the perimeter of the rectangle is 62 feet, find the rectangle's dimensions.

The perimeter of a rectangle is 78 inches. If the length of the rectangle is seven inches more than three times the width, find the dimensions.
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Question 211043: Can you please explain this to me? I think I understand whats going on but I'm still getting a bit confused. Heres the question:
The length of a rectange is 3 m more than twice its width, and the area of the rectange is 35 m^2. Findthe dimensions of the rectangle.
Thank you in advance!

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Question 209918: what is the length for a rectangle when one side equals 15 and the Area=180 units squared
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Question 211150: The width of a rectangle is 1 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 33 cm^2, what is the length of the diagonal?
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Question 211255: if a rectangle if four less them twice the width and the perimeter is 46 inches what is the dimensions of the rectangle

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Question 211405: Can you please help me with this problem? Find the dimensiona of a rectangle whose area is 180cm^2 and whose perimeter is 54 cm. Please show me all the steps and reply as soon as possible this is due tues. before 10 am.
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Question 211465: The length of a rectangle is 7 centimeters less than twice its width. Its area is 30 square centimeters. Find the dimension of the rectangle.
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Question 211479: An object is thrown upward from the top of an 80 foot building with an initial velocity of 64 feet per second. The height h of an object after t seconds is given by the quadratic equation (((h=-16t^2+64t+80))). When will the object hit the ground.
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Question 211502: If the sides of a square are increased by 3 inches, the area becomes 64 square inches. Find the length of the sides of the original square.
one square is x and the other is x+3
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Question 211552: An object is dropped from 39 feet below the tip of the pinnacle atop one of the 1483-foot-tall Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Source: Council on tall buildings and Urban Habitat) The height h of the object after t seconds is given by the equation h = -16t^2 + 1444. Find how many seconds pass before the object reaches the ground.
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Question 211555: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose width is 7 miles less than half its length and whose area is 160 square inches.
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Question 211489: If the sides of a square are increased by 3 inches, the area becomes 64 square inches. Find the length of the sides of the original square.
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Question 211513: If the sides of a square are increased by 3 inches, the area becomes 64 square inches. Find the elngth of the sides of the original square.
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Question 211684: A rectangle has perimeter of 100 feet. Express the area A of the rectangle as a function of x. In other words, find A(x). (Picture of rectangle with y as width and x as length).
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Question 211690: A rectangle has an area of 240 in(squared), and one side has length x. Express the perimeter of the rectangle as a function of x.
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Question 209765: The perimeter is 300 and the length is 84 what is the width
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Question 211755: A rectangle is 12 units long and has an unknown width. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 212216: The length of a rectangle is 5cm. The area of the rectangle is the same as that of a square whose side measures 4cm. Find the width of the rectangle.

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Question 212227: A square has an area of 10,000 meters squared. Find its perimeter?
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Question 212246: The length of a rectangular garden is 8 feet longer than its width. If the garden's perimeter is 180 feet, what is the area of the garden in square feet?

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Question 212299: give the dimensions of rectangles with a perimeter of 70 feet and length-to-width ratios of 3to4 4to5 and 1to1
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