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Question 203267: If a cylinder has a radius of 3 centimeters and a height of 10 centimeters, calculate its:
a. lateral surface area
b. total surface area
c. Volume
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Question 203280: What is the lateral surface area of a rectangular prism that has a base perimeter of 40 centimeters and a height of 12 centimeters?
Thanks Janet
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Question 203286: Landscaping. A rectangle piece of landscaping has one side of 63m and the other side of 22m,What is the area of the grass sod strips?

Also a another piece of landscape sod has 34m and the other side has 30m, What is the area of that sod? Thanks Janet
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Question 194948: Can anyone help to solve this problem?
Find the unknown base it height of the trapezoid.
A=112 ft^2, b1=11ft, b2=____, h=8ft
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Question 203363: A rectangle prisim has a length of 34" width of 18" and a depth of 12". How many cubic feet does this have?
Thanks Janet
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Question 203377: 4. What is the area of an inscribed square who's radius is 5 ft?
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Question 203382: what is the area of an inscribed square whose radius is 8 inches?
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Question 203384: what is the area of an equilateral triangle whose apothem is 8 yards?
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Question 203379: 4.if the apothem of a regular octagon is a and its side is b, express the areas in terms of a and b.
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Question 203465: having trouble setting this up can someone help please
A rectangular box with no top (pictured above) is to contain 2250 cubic inches of volume. Find the dimensions of the box that will minimize the surface area. The length (l) of the base is three times the width (w).

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Question 203615: Here is a multiple choice question I cannot firgue out.
If 2 vectors in a vector diagram are not working together,or are out of phase with each other,they must be ______ to obtain a _______ vector.
a. Added,resulant
b. Multiplied by one anpther,parrallel
c. Vectorially added, resultant
d. Both a. and b.
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Question 203728: Two sides of a rombus form a 120 degree angle. The length of each side is 6 in. How do you find the area of the rhombus. I would like to know the steps, please. I did not enter textbook information as this is online and not from the textbook.
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Question 203833: The perimeter of a square is 12 in. What is the area of the square?
I was unable to send a thank you to my last tutur(Stan)helper who took the time to solve my problems a couple of weeks ago because the application would not send it(it kept saying error), so just in case-Thank you so much whoever takes the time to help me out-I am drowning in geometry and I cannot tell you what a huge help this is.
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Question 203869: Hey there, thanks its veery urgent question haveing trouble could u please answer with a diagram if possible!!
the question is :FInd the area of triangle whose vertices are A(4,-2)B(-6,4)C (8,-2)
thanks soo much appriciate it!!
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Question 204012: There are eight holes equally spaced on the flange. Find the distance between the centers of the holes.The bolt diameter is 4.5 inches.
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Question 204381: find the area of a rectangle with length 4 and diagonal 5.
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Question 204730: a rancher removed 200 ft of fence from a field on his ranch. he wishes to reuse teh fencing to create a rectangular corral into which he will build a 6 ft wide wooden gate. what dimensions will result in the greatest possible area?

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Question 204897: What happens to the surface area of a sphere when the radius is halved?

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Question 205045: Hello, I need help with a problem. Use the commutative law to find a equivalent expression. An equivalant expression of uv is.
I think I should just reverse the order uv = vu is an equivalent expression.
Thanks for your time , I'm doing a quiz and my GPA in school is bad so I must ace all my assignments. I thank you if you have a little time to help.
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Question 205532: Find the surface area of a cylinder in terms of pi with a radius of 8 in and a height of 11 in; a cylinder with a diameter of 14 cm and a height of 15 cm; and a cylinder with a radius of 28 cm and a height of 48 cm.
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Question 205535: The surface areas of two similar solids are 311 ft^2 and 1,037 ft^2. The volume of the larger solid is 1755 ft^3. What is the volume of the smaller solid? Also, the volume of two similar solids are 729m^3 and 125 m^3. The surface area of the larger solid is 324m^3. What is the surface area of the smaller solid?
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Question 205643: The length of a rectangle is 5 inches more than twice the width. The area of the rectangle is 102 inches square. How long is the rectangle?
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Question 206097: The floor of a hall 252 cm long,162cm wide is paved with equql squares .Find the largest size of marble and number required ,if only whole marbles are used.
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Question 206122: Given the surface area of a rectangular prism, how do you find the height, width and length?
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Question 206191: How you can find the surface area of a prism when all you're given is the equation for surface area and how much the surface area is equal to?
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Question 187227: A right circular cylinder has a surface are of 112 pie. If the height of the cylinder is 10, find the diameter of the base?
When trying to solve this problem I am aware of the surface area of a right circular cylinder S = 2A+Ch but I am not sure how to find the unknown diameter so that I could then find my circumference and area of the cicrle in the cylinder. If you could help me on this problem it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Question 206204: The area of a right triangle is 120 sq. in. The longer leg is 4 more than twice the shorter leg. Find the length of each leg. Show all work to receive credit.

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Question 206453: Which parabola intersects the x-axis in two distinct points?
a)y=(x+5)^2
b)y=(x-5)^2
c)y=x^2-25
d)y=x^2+25
e)y=(x-4)^2
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Question 206682: Please help and listen to my words for this problem.

I have 4 buildings. The first, has 2 blocks in the first column(columns going down), 2nd column has 1. 3rd has 2

2nd building has 3 blocks in the first column, 2nd column 1, 3rd column 3 blocks.

3rd building has 4 in first column, 1 in second column, 4 in the third.

The 4th and final building has 5 in the first column, 1 in the second, and 5 in the third column.

Please find the perimeter of building # 1 ,2, 3, 4, 10, and building #50. This is a pattern.

Thank you
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Question 206741: A triangle has the same area and base as a rectangle. If the rectangle height is 6 cm, then the triangle height is
(A) 3 cm (B) 6 cm (C) 9 cm (D) 12 cm (E) None of these
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Question 206796: do similar solids have equal surface areas?
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Question 207164: Find the surface area
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Question 207163: Find the surface area of a right circular cylinder whose height is 12cm and the radius is 6cm.

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Question 207245: A swimming pool is 20yds. by 10 yds and is 5 feet deep. How many square feet are in the surface area of the sides and the bottom of the pool.
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Question 207347: Gardening problem – How many cubic yards of topsoil should Mr. Jackson order if he wants to cover a rectangular area of his lawn that measures 30 yd x 25 yd to a depth of 3 ft.?
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Question 207421: The area of a triangle can be found using the 'shoelace method', Can we prove that the 'shoelace method' can be used to find the area of any n-sided polygon in the Cartesian plane?
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Question 207506: Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 22.5 cm and a width of 47.0 mm.
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Question 207506: Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 22.5 cm and a width of 47.0 mm.
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Question 207924: What is the ordered pair representing the center of the shape represented by:
x2 + y2 = 9?
What is the area of the shape is represented by the equation: x2 + y2 = 9?
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Question 208204: how did they find the surface area ???
of cube,cone,cylinder,square,rectangle,rec.prism and so on....????
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Question 208237: I have fenced yard that measures 42 feet by 68 feet. Inside the perimeter there is a sidewalk all the way around that measures 4 feet wide. What is the area of the sidewalk?
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Question 208312: Which has more area a circle 4 inch in diameter or rectangle 4 inch long and 3 inch wide?
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