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Question 186379: a farmer has 500 feet of fencing with which to build a rectangular livestock pen and wants to enclose the maximum area.
use a variable to label length and width of the rectangle
find a variable expression for the area of the pen
this is totally killing me can someone please help??? thank you
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Question 186517: This is a cone of a radious of 7in. and and a height of 14in. what is the answer?
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Question 186475: a farmer has 500 feet of fencing with which to build a rectangluar live stock pen and wants to enclose the maximum area. okay here is my prob i know how to get the maximum area but it also says to show a graph of the possibilties and i am stuck i did get help with and understand how to use varibles but i'm just not sure how i get this graphed is ther some fabulous trick i don't know about??i am struggling with this last math project and totally bombed on the last one i just need a few pointers on what to do thank you all so very much
tanya
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Question 186725: the height of a photo is 4 inches more than its width. After enlargement the height will increase by 18 inches and the width by 12 inches. If the ratio of the area of the original photo to the area of the enlarged photo is 4:25, then what will the new dimensions of the pgoto become? thank you
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Question 187556This question is from textbook algebra 1

: who can help to solve this

y+3=6x
-6x-y=2This question is from textbook algebra 1

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Question 187550: this is the given
8x-4y=16
5y-10x=3
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Question 187554This question is from textbook GEOMETRY TEXTBOOK

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8x-4y=16
5y-10x=3This question is from textbook GEOMETRY TEXTBOOK

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Question 187549: please help me to solve this problem i have many more to do and i have no time to solve this please help me!
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Question 187549: please help me to solve this problem i have many more to do and i have no time to solve this please help me!
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Question 187459This question is from textbook
: The area of a trapezoid is 144 square inches. If the height is 12 inches, find the length of the median.This question is from textbook

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Question 175667: What is the precision measurement for 40 feet?
What is the precision measurement for 12 centimeters?
What is the precision measurement for 9 1/2 inches?
Thanks for your help
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Question 188584: y = 1/2x + 1
Find the measures of the acute angle that each line makes with a horizontal line. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 188583: A 6ft. tall person standing at a distance of 27ft. from the water tower must look up at an angle of 46degrees to see the top of the water tower. To the nearest foot, find the height of the water tower?
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Question 188581: The angle of depression of a diver from the boat is 34degrees, and the diver is 367ft. deep. To the nearest foot, how far is the diver from the ship?
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Question 188585: A hot-air balloon has risen to an altitude of 280m. You can still see the starting point at an 18degrees angle of depression. To the nearest meter, how far is the balloon from the starting point?
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Question 188579: A tree casts a shawdow of 17ft. The angle of elevation from the tip of the shawdow to the top of the tree is 68degrees. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the tree?
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Question 188701: Ordered pairs- can't find
y+3x=0
what is the ordered pair
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Question 188754: write a equation of the line with slope 5 and y- intercept -12?
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Question 188766: Marty leaves his house and walks 5 miles due west. He stops at the library and then walks 8 miles due north. HOW FAR IS Marty from his house? Round your answer to the nearest tenth. Graph and show work.
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Question 188916: A triangle has two sides that have lengths of 16 centimeters and 28 centimeters. Which of the following lengths could not represent the length of the third side.

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Question 189566: Hello. My husband and I are trying to figure out how many cord of wood we have just split. It's piled into a cone area with a base area of 19' across and 8' high. Approximately how many cord do we have???
Thank you,
Joanna
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Question 190624: Estimate the area of the rectangle in square units. Each square represents 1 square unit.
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Question 191287: HOw would I describe the similarities and differences of perimeter, area, surface area and volume in a way that a 5th grader could understand. Creativity and clarity count.

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Question 192554: Given a circle with the radius of 2, which is the length of an arc measuring 75 degrees?
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Question 192554: Given a circle with the radius of 2, which is the length of an arc measuring 75 degrees?
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Question 192612: I need to find the mean of two values: A=36, m=16 and the problem is
A=m+n/2
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Question 192621: How do you find the area of a quadrilateral?
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Question 192621: How do you find the area of a quadrilateral?
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Question 193048: find the measure of the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle whose longer leg has a measure of 6 meters. Give the answer in simplified radical form.I know that the hypotenuse is 2x the length of the shorter leg.
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Question 194454: I don't understand Euler's Law, v+f=e+2

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Question 194537: If a wheel completes exactly 5 revolutions while rolling 80 times pi feet, what is the diameter of the wheel?
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Question 191189: The area of a trapezoid is 3350 cm^2, its height is 36.0cm and one of the bases is 45.0cm long. Find the length of the other base.
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Question 195428: My question is this: The perimeter of the quadrilateral is 88 inches. I need to find the lengths of the sides. This is what I have to work with: x+2, 2x+1,
x^2-3x, and x-5. I just need the formula to put this together and find the sides.
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Question 196329: Hi!
if I have the following information for a triangle:
a=16, b=20 angle B=40
is it possible to find the rest of the measurements ONLY using the law of Cosines (i.e. or do I HAVE to use the laws of Sines and other formulas?
If it is possible using only the laws of Cosines, please please show me how.
Thanks!
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Question 196362: The shorter leg of a 30-60-90 triangle is 4.4 inches long. What is the perimeter
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Question 197513: Hello.
Find the length of a diagonal of a cube that has edges of length 6 in.
I though I could use (i.e. ) but sheet says the answer is 10.3923 NOT 8.485. can someone please help.
thanks.
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Question 198166: If I walk a distance of 100ft and the elevation of my walk increases by 100ft, what is the angle of the path?
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Question 198748: the side of a cube is 12 centiments. Find the surface-area-to-volume ratio,
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Question 198802This question is from textbook geometry

: can you please help me solve and show all work and write formula insert values and show calculations. be sure to unclude units. ((( Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and corrresponding height 4cm. )))This question is from textbook geometry

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Question 198799This question is from textbook geometry

: can you please help me answer the following ((( What is the locus of points in space that are equidistant from two parellel planes? )))This question is from textbook geometry

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Question 198800This question is from textbook geometry

: can you please help me answer the following ((( What is the locus of points in a plane that are equidistant from points A and B in the plane? )))This question is from textbook geometry

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Question 198803This question is from textbook geometry

: can you please help me solve and show all work and write formula insert values and show calculations. be sure to unclude units. ((( Find the area of a rhombus with diagonals 4m and 12m. )))This question is from textbook geometry

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Question 198854: Triangle RAT is an isoceles right triangle with right angle T and area 50 cm. squared. find the lengths of the legs and hypotenuse.
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Question 198805:
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Question 198937This question is from textbook geometry

: can you please help me solve and leave answer in terms of pie ((( Find the circumference of a circle with radius 8. )))This question is from textbook geometry

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