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Question 637963: The length of the side of a triangle are in a ratio of 3:3:5. The perimeter of the triangle is 44cm. Find the length of the sides.
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Question 638246: One of the angle of a triangle is 65. Find the remaining two angles if their difference is 25
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Question 638291: In my question there is a diagram which shows a circle with a circumference of 1cm being rolled around an equilateral triangle with sides of length 1cm.
The circle is positioned haalfway between the top and bottom of one side of the triangle
How many COMPLETE TURNS does the circle make as it rolls around the triangle ( without slipping) to its original starting position. I know that the answer is 4, please could someone explain in simple terms why it is 4.
Thankyou
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Question 638452: the vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is four less than twice the base angle. what is the measure of the vertex angle?
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Question 638641: I am not sure how to solve the following word problem. I have more difficulty answering word problems than number problems. Words seem to overwhelm me more than numbers do. Any guidance that you can offer on this subject and the provided math problem would be greatly appreciated.
Problem: In a triangle the two larger angles differ by 10°. The small angle is 50° less than the largest angle. Find the measure of each angle.

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Question 638793: if a right triangle has one side that is 11 feet and one side that is 8 feet, what is the length of its hypotenuse?
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Question 639068: the population of a town is 266316 people. the ratio between male and female of the town is 4:5. find the number of male and female?

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Question 639155: Equilateral triangle abc has a perimeter of 147 ft find the length of all three sides
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Question 639217: How do I find the area of this triangle:

thank you!

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Question 639257: The Perimeter of the triangle is 59 cm.
Find the length of each side.
a= 2x-1
b= 4x-6
c= 3x+21
I've no clue as to how to solve this question.
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Question 639293: In a triangle, one side is three times as large as the smallest side and the third side is 40 feet more than the smallest side. The perimeter of the triangle is 184 feet. Find the measurement of all three sides.
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Question 637783: the perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 79 ft. Find the length of each side.

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Question 639620: leg=15,leg= 11 what is the length of side not given

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Question 639621: find the length of the right triangle 13cm, 16cm

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Question 639795: find perimeter of triangle whose vertices are (4,10), (9,-4),(8,1)
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Question 639898: the longer leg of a right triangle is 2cm less than twice the shorter leg.find the measure of each leg of the triangle with the smallest possible area.

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Question 640242: Which has more square footage, a 5'x 5' square or a triangle with a 10' base and a height of 5'?
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Question 640370: the length of each leg of an isosceles right triangle is 4 cm and what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 640538: The are of a triangle whos base is 2 1/3 yards and height is 3/5 yards
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Question 640853: HOW DO YOU EXPRESS THE PERIMETER OF A TRIANGLE WITH THE SIDES OF 3x + 1, 2x, 4x-3
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Question 640915: Area of a triangle with the sides: 26,32, and 19
and what is the measure of the angle opposite 19.
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Question 642006: In triangle ABC, suppose side c = 12, A = 75°, and B = 26°. Find the length of side a
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Question 642251: Hello, can anyone help me with solving this?
Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 3m less than twice the common length. The perimeter of the triangle is 13m.
What is the length of the two sides that have the same length?
What is the length of the third side?
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Question 642245: What is the perimeter of an isosceles triangle with a base of 13 and congruent sides of 9?
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Question 642235: The sum of angles of a triangle is 180degree and Exterior angle of a triangle is equal to sum of interior opposite angle.
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Question 642307: why the fuck yall aint answering my shit damn answer the fucking questions
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Question 642302: what is the length of an altitude of an equilateral triangle with side lenghts 8 radical 3

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Question 642306: the length of the diagonal of a square is 22. what is the length of each side

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Question 642298: two congruent triangles one is 5x-3 and the other is 3x+7 what the x value
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Question 642338: Using the Pythagorean Theorem, find the missing side for these right triangles.
If the answer is not a perfect square, leave it in radical form.
Here's the problem:
C = 5
B = 4
A = (blank space and has a radical sign over it)
Thank's so much for your help!!!

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Question 642613: The height of a right-angled triangle is 1 m more than its base and its hypotenuse is 2 m more than its base. Find the height of the triangle?
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Question 642873: A=(1/2)h (B+b) solve for B

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Question 644421: the square of the hypotenuse of the right isosceles triangle is 450 units.find the length of each side of the square
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Question 644536: If an isosceles triangle has side lengths of 5 & 8, what could be the length of the 3rd side?
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Question 644418: an airplane climbed at an average vertical speed of 300 feet per minute and descended immediately at an average speed of 25 miles per hour. the flight performed in 25 minutes. what altitude did the plane reach?
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Question 644801: good day
I;ve been given this formula P=lR and asked to make the 'l'the subject please help no idea about this.
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Question 645132: An isosceles triangle has two equal sides of equal length. The length of one of the equal sides is two more than 3 times the length of the third side. If the perimeter is 46 m, find the length of each side.
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Question 645282: Sharks' teeth are shaped like triangles. the height of a tooth of a certain shark is 1 cm longer than the base. the area is 36cm^2. find the height and the base.
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Question 645439: if one acute angle in a right angled triangle is double the other then prove that the hypotenuse is double the shortest side
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Question 645609: Which one of the following could not represent the lengths of the sides a right triangle?
A. 5, 12, 13
B. 2, 2, 2
C. 1, , .2
D. 1, 2, 3
E. 6, 8, 10
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Question 646640: sketch and label the figure. 1.Two different isosceles triangles with perimeter 4a + b
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Question 647407: The sum of lengths of any two sides of triangle must be greater than third side. If a triangle has one side that is 14 inches and a second side that is one inch less than twice the third, what are the possible lengths for second and third?
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Question 647533: In Triangle PQR, the length of side QR is 12 and the length of side PR is 20. What is the greatest possible integer length of side PQ.
A. 9
B. 16
C. 25
D. 27
E. 31
How do I find this out? Thanks.
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