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Question 456343: the ratio of the measures of the sides of a triangle is 2:5:6. If the length of the longest side is 48 inches, find the perimeter

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Question 456393: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 41 in long. One leg of the same triangle is 40 in long. What is the length of the other leg? Explain how you found your answer.
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Question 456423: if the legs of a right triangle are 2 radical 3 and 6, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 456693: a triangle has sides of length 8 cm and 7cm. what can you say about the length of the third side
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Question 456884: The sides of a length of a triangle are x, x+4, and 20, where 20 is the longest side. For which range of values is x an acute triangle
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Question 456930: In a triangle, the ratio of the measures of the sides is 2:3:4 and the perimeter is 144. Find the measures of the sides on the triangle.
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Question 456941: The length of one side of a rectangle is 4 and the width is 3. Find the length of its diagonal.
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Question 456962: A triangle has angle 45,60 and 75 degrees and the shortest side has length 2. What is the area of triangle?
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Question 457187: is it a right triangle when one side is 5cm, the other is 7cm and the base is 9cm?
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Question 457221: 1. what is the area of triangle whose sides are 29cm,25cm,and 56 cm.?
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Question 457203: if one leg of a right triangle is 8 inches long, and the other leg is 12 inches long, how many inches long is the triangle’s hypotenuse?
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Question 457158: if an equilateral triangle with side x has the same perimeter as another triangle with sides 5,8 and x what is the value of x?
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Question 457315: if two regular polygonjs each have 47 equal sides and the perimiter of one is 47 times greater than the perimeter of the other, are they similar
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Question 457438: how can you recognise congruent shapes ?
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Question 457725: How can I know whether a triangle is acute, obtuse, or right, based on three side lengths?
Example, 6 cm, 8 cm, 9 cm.
I know it is not a right triangle, because the pythagorean theorem does not work.
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Question 456935: A building casts a shadow of 108 ft. Tom, who is 6 ft tall, casts a shadow of 4 ft. About how tall is the building?
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Question 457836: is a triangle with the sides 5,10, and 12 acute?
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Question 458010: how do u find the value of x of of a triangle with only one measurement such as 4.5
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Question 458056: A right triangle hastwo sides that are each 12 feet long. To the nearest foot, what is the length of the third side?
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Question 458222: In the diagram below, RST is a 3 − 4 − 5 right
triangle. The altitude, h, to the hypotenuse has
been drawn. Determine the length of h.

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Question 458117: Find the smallest angle of a triangle whose sides are 7, 8, and 9. (solution in radians)

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Question 458248: How do you classify a triangle with 8cm 12cm and 17cm side lengths?
Obtuse
Acute
Isosceles
Right
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Question 458038: If the shorter leg of a 30o-60o-90o triangle is 7 inches long, what is the length of the hypotenuse? Leave answer in radical form.
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Question 458313: What is the measure of angle 6, if lines x and y are parallel, and angle 7 measures 121°?
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Question 458584: If a right triangle has a leg of 4 inches and. Hypotenus of 10 inches,what is the length of the other leg
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Question 458561: if the hypotenuse of a right triangle has length 10 feet and one of the other sides has length 6 feet, then what is the length of the remaining side?
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Question 458600: How do I find if a triangle is a right triangle through the side lengths 6,8,10?
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Question 458655: The angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 2:3:7. How do I find the measures of the angles?
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Question 458599: How do I find if a triangle is a right triangle through the side lengths 6,8,10?
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Question 458720:
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Question 458721: If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of 12cm and one leg of 9cm, what is the length of the other leg?
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Question 458717: Two sides of a triangle have length 7 and 18. What must be true about the third length?
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Question 458778: Classify the triangle as acute, obtuse, or right if the 3 sides of the triangle are 4, 5, and 8.
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Question 458864: if angles are given of triangle and one side is also given .how we will find out other sides of the triangle.
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Question 458495: if a billboard is 15ft off the ground and 20ft high how many feet of ladder is required to reach the top of the billboard.
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Question 459405: A right triangle has sides of length 1, 2 and the square root of 3. In radians, what is the smallest angle?
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Question 459631: 7. Which of the following could NOT be the lengths of the sides of a right triangle?
9 ft, 12 ft, 15 ft
5 in., 10 in., 15 in.
4 cm, 7.5 cm, 8.5 cm
1.5 m, 2 m, 2.5 m

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Question 459667: If I'm given a right triangle with the bottom part measuring 30...how do I find the other two sides measurements?
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Question 459667: If I'm given a right triangle with the bottom part measuring 30...how do I find the other two sides measurements?
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Question 459670: If I have a measurement of a right triangle where the bottom measures 30 and there are two missing signs and the beta is given which measures 29 degrees 45 minutes and 39 seconds what is the alpha and the other two measurements of the triangle?
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Question 459673: if the two sides of a right triangle have lengths 8 and 3, then what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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