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Question 337074: A mechanical engineer drilled a hole through a metal cube. If the bases of the right cylinder representing the hole are inscribed in the bases of the cube and the volume of the cube is 256 m, find the volume of the remaining solid figure after the hole has been drilled.
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Question 337507: Suppose a town wants to design two landfills shaped as a cone and a cylinder. The base diameter and the volume of both designs will be the same. Which statement is true? A. The height of both designs are the same.
B. The height of the cylinder will be 3 times the height of the cone.
C. The height of the cone will be 3 times the height of the cylinder.
D. The volume cannot be the same when the bases have the same diameter.

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Question 337404: a rectangular box has a volume of 480 cubic inches. the height of the box is 5 inches. the ratio of the length of the box to the width of thbox is 3 to 2. What is the measure of the width of the box?
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Question 338545: A cylinder of Volume 9 liters has a diameter and height which are equal. Fine the height of the cylinder. please
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Question 338736: 1. Which uppercase letters of the alphabet have rotational symmetry? This is what I came up with but need to know if I am correct on this. There are 15 uppercase letters of the alphabet that have rotational symmetry. They are A B C D E H I M O T U V W X Y
2. Why won’t a regular octagon tessellate the plane by itself? Describe a combination of a regular octagon and another regular polygon that will tessellate the plane.
3. For the following Exercises, find the number of degrees in the point angle of each figure.
1) {5/2}
2) {8/2}
3) {6/2}
4. Show how to slice a cylindrical piece of cheese into eight congruent pieces with three slices.
5. Two corresponding sides of similar polygons are in the ratio of 5:4. If the perimeter of the smaller figure is 40, what is the perimeter of the larger figure?

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Question 338804: a friend needs help to solve her assignment, i can't solve this i'm not good on this.
this is a relevant question to the 1st i send.
the volum of a box is 810 cu.inches.the base of the box is square shaped and the height is 1 inch more than the length of the base.what are the dimension of the box

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Question 338802: a rectangular solid has a volume of 640 cu.units.the width is 3 units more than the height and the length is 1 unit more than three times the height. find the dimension of the solid
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Question 339398: A cone of height 24cm has a curved surface area 550 cm2 . Find its volume
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Question 339586: what is the volume of a cube with 0.5 inches

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Question 339769: what is the liquid volume of a cylinder measuring 18"high and 10" diameter
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Question 339860: A box with a square base has a surface area (including the top) of 3m^2. Express the volume V of the box as a function of the width w of the base
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Question 261499: Judy and Pete are building a new house and want to carpet their living room, except for the entranceway and the semicircle in front of the fireplace that they want to tile (Alexander & Koeberlein, 2003).
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Question 340203: Find volume of a pyramid with a height of 3 inches whose base is an equilateral triangle with 4-inch sides?
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Question 340212: if one cubic inch weighs 0.036 pounds is a 45 volumed cube what does the whole thing weigh?
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Question 340222: A rectangular container measuring 10 cm x 20 cm x 25cm is filled with water. What is the mass of volume of water in kilograms and grams
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Question 341761: The volume of a right circular cylinder with a radius of 5 meters and a height of 21 meters is ______ .How do know how do answer this?
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Question 341921: A cubic container measures 10.0cm on each side. How many mL of water will it hold? How much would the water weigh?
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Question 342430: What is the volume of a cube with edges of 2 and 1/3 inches?
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Question 342278: An open rectangular box with volume 7 m3 has a square base.
(a) Express the surface area of the box as a function of the length (x) of a side of the base.

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Question 342278: An open rectangular box with volume 7 m3 has a square base.
(a) Express the surface area of the box as a function of the length (x) of a side of the base.

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Question 342709: if the volume of a box is 60 cm cube what is the length width and height
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Question 342728: A fish tank of dimension 40cm*40cm*50cm(depth) is filled with water to a depth of 40cm.What is the total pressure at the bottom of the tank?
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Question 342780: the rocks fill a hole 2ft deep
what is the volume of the rocks with a 10ft diameter?

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Question 342781: a reservoir measures 180 ft. in diameter and 20 ft. high. How many gallons of water per foot are in this reservoir?
A) 190,246
B)648,000
C) 242,352
D) 508, 680
I thought i used this equation (.785)(180ft)^2(20)(7.48 gals) but it never comes close to one of the answers please help if you can it is for my water distrabution class

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Question 343212: what is a inkpens volume in cm cubed?
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Question 343372: There are three separate tunnels built side. Each is 50,000 meters long and 4ft. high. How many cubic meters of dirt had to be moved using 3.14 pi?
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Question 343296: A rectangular piece of matal is 10 in. longer than it is woide. Squares with sides 2 in. lon are cut from the four corners, and the flaps are folded upward to form an open box. if the volume of the box is 832 in3(to the third power) whaqt were the original dimensions of the piece of metal?
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Question 344483: wHAT IS THE VOLUME OF A RECTANGULAR SOLID THAT IS 2FT BY 3FT BY 18IN?

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Question 345229: what is a blob of about 100 cubic feet
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Question 345448: The volume B of a box with a square base of side x and height 2x.
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Question 345636: What is the volume of a cube with the edge length of 7 milimeters.
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Question 346274: a cylindrical chemical storage tank must have a height 4 meters greater than the radius of the top of the tank. Determine the radius of the top and the height of the tank if the tank must have a volume of 15.71 cubic meters.
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Question 347112: find the dimensions of the container (that has a volume of 500000 liters) so you can calculate the surface area.
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Question 347116: A tank is to be constructed that will hold 5.00 X 10^5L when filled. The Shape is to be cylindrical with a hemispherical top. find the dimensions of the container (that has a volume of 500000 liters) so you can calculate the surface area.
Tank has no dead air space

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Question 347119: A tank is to be constructed that will hold 5.00 X 10^5L when filled. The Shape is to be cylindrical with a hemispherical top. find the dimensions of the container (that has a volume of 500000 liters) so you can calculate the surface area.
No diameter or height given, you must find the height and diamter based on the 500,000L and no dead air space.
Tank has no dead air space

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Question 347177: A cylindrical gasoline can is 18 inches across and 20 inches tall. Which expression represents the approximate volume in cubic inches?
1) (3.14)(9)^2(20)
2) (3.14)(9)(20)^2
3) (3.14)(18)(20)
4) (3.14)(36)^2(20)

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Question 346979: A container in the shape of a right circular cylinder is 1 foot high and has a capacity of 4 quart. What is the number of quarts of liquid in the container when it is filled to a height of 9 inches?
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Question 347185: Vickie earns $20,000 a year as a bookkeeper. If she receives a raise of 2%, how could her new total salary be represented?
1) 0.02($20,000)
2) $20,000/0.02
3) 0.02($20,000) + 0.02
4) 0.02($20,000) + $20,000
5) $20,000/0.02 + $20,000

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Question 347201: what is the geometric mean of 2 and a is 5 square root of 5.
what is a?

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Question 347329: What is the volume of a rectangle 30 inches wide, 80 inches long, and 5 inches high?
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Question 347298: The volume of a cone is cubic kilometers. If the radius of the base is 9 kilometers, what is the height of the cone? Use 3.14 for pi. Show your work and round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 347674: A spherical water tank has a diameter of 10 feet. How much water does it hold when half full? (Use 3.14 for p)
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Question 348490: a cylindrical can of green beans has a diameter of 12 centimeters and height of 25 centimeters. what is the volume of the can of green beans to the nearest cubic centimeter?
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Question 348317: A rectangular box with volume 5 cubic metres has a square base with side length x metres. Express the surface area S of the box as a function of x
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