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Question 752176: Jennifer wishes to lay carpet in her new house. At the first store, the salesperson says they will lay the carpet she chose for $18 per square yard. At the second store, the salesperson says they will lay the same carpet for $3 per square foot. The second salesperson says this is half the price of the first store since everyone knows there are 3 feet per yard. Is the salesperson misleading the customer? Why or why not?
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Question 751782: The height of the cylinder is three times the diameter of the base. The surface area of the cylinder is 126. What is the radius of the base
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Question 751562: hi how do you find the radius of a sphere given the volume. i know the formula and i did it on my calculator but the number doesnt seem right. the volume is 3000 can you explain the steps and the answer. thanks so much
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Question 750700: A right cylindere has a radius of 2 feet and a height of 5 feet. Find the sureface area.

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Question 751317: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 72 ft. The length is 23 ft. What is the width?
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Question 750698: The sureface are of a cube is 384 sq. inches. FInd the lenght of an edge.
A. 24
B. 4
c. 8
D. 16
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Question 749336: what is the surface area of a cylinder that is 6 feet tall and 9 feet radius
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Question 749914: determine the area of a rectangle that is 25 centimeters by 100 centimeters in square feet
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Question 750009: The surface of a sphere is 12960 cm squared, find the radius of the sphere
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Question 749407: a peice of art is in the shape of an equilateral triangle with sides pf 13 in. find the area of a peice of art. round it to the nearest tenth

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Question 749267: One cube with a side length of 1 foot 9 inches. Solve for total surface area.
I got 18.375ft. but would like a second opinion.
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Question 749269: One cylinder with a diameter of 1 foot and a height of 2.75ft. Solve for total surface area.
I estimated to be 15.75ft. but i'm sure it's wrong.
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Question 748812: What are the square centimeters on the surface of a sphere with a diameter of.5 meters
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Question 748742: How many feet are there in 6 poles 22 links
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Question 748165: Use formulas to find the surface area of a right prism with a rectangular base. The sides of the base of the prism are 2 m by 6 m, and the height of the prism is 5 m.

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Question 747956: Please help me solve!!
"Tiling Around"
How many 1" square tiles are needed to tile the edge of an oval pool with dimensions 12 feet by 22 feet?

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Question 747958: Please help me to solve!
"Aging Rings"
Each year a tree adds a new ring to its cross section. Some rings are thicker than others. Why would this be?
Suppose the average ring was .5 cm thick.
Approximately how old is a tree with a circumference of 700 cm?
Thanks for helping :)
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Question 747957: Please help me to solve!!!
"Woof, Woof, Meow!"
Waggles is tied to a chain and has a playground of 154 square feet. The neighbor's cat Fluffy is currently 2 1/2 yards from the tie-down post. Should Fluffy be concerned?
Thanks for helping :)
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Question 747143: the percentage change in the surface area of a cube when each side is tripled is
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Question 746795: how do you convert 1.5 yards to 4.5 feet and 4.5 feet to 54 inches?
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Question 746782: The area of a parallelogram with base of 24 inches and height of 1.5 yards
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Question 746752: what is the surface area of 20 feet and 30 feet and 24 feet
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Question 746155: How do I solve for the area of this trapezoid? base1 is a and base2 is b and the height is h. A= 1/2h ( a + b)
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Question 745709: fin d the diameter of a sphere with surface area 256 pie ft.^2

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Question 745324: where's my asshole?
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Question 744557: surface area of a room (excluding floor) measurements are 9' 3" in length
5'6" in width and 8'0" height.
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Question 744848: If the diameter of the compact disc is 120 millimeters, what is the approximate area ignoring the center hole? (Use 3.14 for .)
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Question 744834: What is the area of a square of 8 m base?
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Question 744796: Three sides of a trapezoid are each 8 cm long. How long is the 4th side when the area of the trapezoid has the greatest value?
here is the choices, 16 cm, 12 cm, 10 cm, 14 cm
Is the problem missing another given information? I try to solved it using two different formula in solving area of trapezoid but no good.

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Question 744618: the length and width of a rectangle are consecutive even integers. the area of the rectangle is 8 square units. what are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 744579: find the surface area of a can of fruit juice whose diameter is 22 cm and whose height is 34 cm

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Question 744586: Please help! I am horrible with data tables.
Different masses M (in kilograms) are hung from a spring. The distances D (in centimeters) that the spring stretches are shown in the table. Test different models to see which type of model best fits the data. Write a model that best represents the data.
Values for M: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Values for D: 2.6, 5.2, 7.8, 10.4, 13, 15.6, 18.2

*These values were written in a table. Masses were on top row, distances were on bottom row.
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Question 744355: please help answer:)a reactangles area is three -fourths,if the width is one half,what is the length? i tried three-fourths divided by one half but i dont thing that is right
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Question 744265: Find the surface area of a sphere that has a volume of 288 pi ft cube. Give answer in terms of pi and as a decimal
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Question 743497: Find the surface area of the sphere with the given dimension. Leave your answer in terms of pi.
1.
radius of 60 m (1 point)
3,600pi cm2
7,200pi cm2
14,400pi cm2
1,800pi cm2
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Question 742625: find the degree measure of a sector in a circle if the radius of the circle is 20 feet and the area of the sector is 40pi ft2.
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Question 742348: in the figure a and b are identical squares overlapping each other.the length of each side of the shaded region is half of the length oof square a.what is the area of the unshaded part
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Question 742125: The percentage change in the surface area of a cube when each side is tripled is
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Question 741004: A family room is 24 feet5long and 18feet wide ,wshat is the area of the family room
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Question 740892: how much will it cost to carpet a rectangular room measuring 10m by 25m, if carpeting cost $24.65 per square meter?
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Question 740892: how much will it cost to carpet a rectangular room measuring 10m by 25m, if carpeting cost $24.65 per square meter?
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Question 740309: I did not understand my teacher's explanation in class. I would very much appreciate you assistance and I will take notes for the future. Thank you!
Find shaded area (the triangle is equilateral)
I will post a picture.
http://screencast.com/t/Fv2HJVOreHE
Thank You! Please help I need this for tomorrow I promise to write down everything you help me with. Thank you!
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