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Question 123649: You are putting a brick sidewalk around two edges of a rectangular rose garden that measures 16ft by 8ft. Your budget allows only enough bricks to cover 52 sq ft. How wide should the sidewalk be.
16x X 8x
x=2.46 width
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Question 124368: Perimeter of a rectangle. The width of a rectangular playground is 2x-5 feet and the length is 3x+9 feet. Write a polynomial P(x) that represents the perimeter and then evaluate this perimeter polynomial if x is 4 feet.
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Question 124534: The perimeter of a square is three times the perimeter of a regular hexagon. The length of a side of the square is 2 inches more than four times the length of a side of the hexagon. What is the perimeter of the square and hexagon?
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Question 125152: The length of a rectangle is twice the length of each side of a square and the width of the rectangle is 1 inch less than the length of each side of the square. The perimeter of the rectangle exceeds the perimeter of the square by three. Find the length of each side of the square.
I tried solving it, but each time I got a negative answer.
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Question 125152: The length of a rectangle is twice the length of each side of a square and the width of the rectangle is 1 inch less than the length of each side of the square. The perimeter of the rectangle exceeds the perimeter of the square by three. Find the length of each side of the square.
I tried solving it, but each time I got a negative answer.
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Question 125348: The ancient Greeks thought that the most pleasing shape for a rectangle was one for which the ratio of the length to the width was 8 to 5, the golden ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 feet longer than its width, then for what dimension would the length and width have the golden ratio?
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Question 126669This question is from textbook Introductory Algebra
: I struggle with word problems but I think I have this one...I just need someone to double check and make sure I am on the right track. Thanks!
Problem: The mainsail of a lightning sailboat is a right triangle in which the hypotenuse is called the leech. If a 24ft tall mainsail has a leech length of 26ft. and if the sailcloth costs $10 per square foot, find the cost of a new mainsail.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
x^2 + 24^2 = 26^2
x^2 + 576 = 676
x^2 + 576 - 676 = 0
x^2 - 100 = 0
(x + 10)(x - 10)
x = 10 This question is from textbook Introductory Algebra
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Question 126727This question is from textbook 
: A bullet was fired such that it just grazed the top of the table. It entered a wall, which is 3.84m from the graze point in the table, at a point 1.41m above the tabletop. At what angle was the bullet fired above the horizontal?This question is from textbook
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Question 126807: If two opposite sides of a square are increased by 6 meters and the other sides are decreases by 4 meters, the area of the rectangle that is formed is 96 square meters. Find the area of the original square.
I've gotten as far as finding x at least I think 10, -12...but I don't know where to go from there. :(
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Question 126805: A piece of tin, y=11 inches on a side, is to have four equal squares cut from it's corners. If the edges are then to be folded up to make a box with a floor area of 25 square inches, find the depth of the box.
This problem has me stumped :( please help :-)
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Question 126728: In 2000, 70 tonnes of soil were removed from under the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the angle the tower made with the ground was increased by about 0.5 degrees.Before that a point near the top of the tower was 50.5m from a point at the base (measured along the tower), and this top point was directly above a point on the ground 4.25m from the same base point. How much did the point on the ground move toward the base point?
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Question 126833: A garden in the shape of a right triangle has sides measuring 60, 80 and 100 ft. The owner of the garden adds a new section of fence that runs from the right angle to the hypoteneuse and separates the garden into two parts of equal perimeter. Find the length of the new section of the fence. Problem is not out of a textbook, rather on a worksheet.
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Question 127732: pls help me....
how many cubed pieces of fudge that are 3 inches on an edge can be packed into a can that is 9 inches deep by 12 inches wide by 8 inches high with the lid still being able to be closed?
thanks
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