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Question 190270: The rate, given that the distance is 200 ft and the time is x+3 seconds

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Question 190270: The rate, given that the distance is 200 ft and the time is x+3 seconds

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Question 190772: Jim's nephew owns a triangular plot of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 121 feet. The shortest side is 15 feet longer than one-half of the longest side. The second longest side is 4 feet shorter than the longest side. What is the length of each side?
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Question 190818: The area of a triangle is 96 sq. inches. Its altitude is 2 inches greater than five times its base. Find the altitude. ( A= 1/2bh )
I tried 96=1/2(5b)h
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Question 190946: I have a homework problem that I could use some help with-thank you. What is another measure for an angle that measures 283 degrees? _________ degrees.
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Question 191052: In a certain right triangle, one of the acute angles measures 25 degrees. What is the measure of the other acute angle?
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Question 191194This question is from textbook Elemantary Algebra for College Students
: Unknown Angles. One angle of a triangle is 10 degrees greater the the smallest angle,and the third angle is 30 degrees less than twice the smallest angle. Find the measure of the three anglesThis question is from textbook Elemantary Algebra for College Students

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Question 191207: An escalator in the subway system of St.Petersburg,Russia has a vertical rise of 195ft 9.5 in and rises at an angle of 10.4 degrees.how long is the escalator?
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Question 191413: A square has a side measuring 30 inches. Find the diagonal
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Question 191720: A yardstick casts a shadow 84 inches.Find the height of a tree whose shadow is 560 inches in length ?

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Question 191848This question is from textbook Discovering Geometry: An Investigative Approach

: A giant California redwood tree 36 meters tall cracked in a violent storm as if hinged. The tip of the once beautiful tree hit the ground 24 meters from the base. Researcher Red Woods wishes to investigate the crack. How many meters up from the base of the tree does he have to climb?
The length of the hypotenuse is (((36-x))) Solve for "x"This question is from textbook Discovering Geometry: An Investigative Approach

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Question 191931: The area of a rectangle is 64cm^2. Its length is 4times the width. What is its length and width? THANK YOU TO WHO EVER HELPS ME WITH THIS. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
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Question 191983: The area of a rectangle is 64cm^2. Its length is 4 times the width. What is the lenght and width. I NEED TO SOLVE THIS BY FACTORING. ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME..THANK YOU TO YOU ALL...
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Question 192004: The area of a square is 3 less than the perimeter of the same square. What is the length of one side of the square.
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Question 192021This question is from textbook
: A square peice of cardboard is formed into a box by cutting out 3 in squares from each of the corners and folding up the sides. If the volume of the box needs to be 126.75 cubic inches, what size square piece of cardboard is needed?This question is from textbook

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Question 192080: Find the surface area of a rectangular prisim that is 8 meters long, 6 meters wide, and 2 meters high.
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Question 192079: What is the area of a trapezoid with altitude 7 feet and bases of lenghts 11 feet and 15 feet?
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Question 192078: The sum of the measures of three of the interior angles of a convex pentagon is 280. The measure of the fourth angle is three times the measure of the fifth angle. Fin the measure of the fourth angle.
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Question 192068This question is from textbook
: The earth has a circumference of 25,000 miles. The diameter I beleive would be 7961.78. If you walked completely around the world, and you are 5 feet tall how much farther would your heat travel than your feet?This question is from textbook

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Question 192077: Given (triangle)ABC~(tringle)XYZ, AB=9, BC=18 and AC-21. If the perimeter of (triangle)XYZ is 112, find the measures of the three sides of (triangle)XYZ.
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Question 192221: find the distance between the points (a,0) and (b,0)
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Question 192234: Find the length to the nearest tenth, of a diagonal of a square whose sides are 10 centimeters long.
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Question 192235: From the top of a 200-foot cliff, the angle of depression to a boat offshore is 15 degrees. To the nearest foot, how far is the boat from the base of the cliff?
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Question 192270: Given(triangle) with vertices A(0,4) B(5,0), and C (7,5) what are the vertices of its image after a reflection over the x-axis.
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Question 192271: From the top of a 200-foot cliff, the angle of depression to a boat offshore is 15 degrees. To the nearest foot, how far is the boat from the base of the cliff?
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Question 192267: Find the volume to the nearest tenths, of a cone with diameter 3 feet and height 1.5 feet.
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Question 192310: A plane that is 500ft. above the ground begins its descent at an angle of depression of 30 degrees. What is the ground distance the plane must travel before it lands?
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Question 192272: if (triangle)ABC is a 30 degree, 60 degree, 90 degree triangle with m angleA=30 find sin A cos A, and tan A. Give the answers as franctions with simplified radicals.
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Question 192268: Solve the system of equations. 4x-y=6 2x+3y=-4
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Question 192239: A circle has radii of length 12 inches. Find the distance from the center of the circle to a chord length of 14 inches.
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Question 192415: The width of a rectangle is 12 in. more than the length.
The area is 133 in^2.
Find the length and the width of the rectangle.
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Question 192401: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The area is 18. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 192447: if the length of the rectangle is 4ft, and the width is 3ft find the diagonal of the rectangle??
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Question 192590: A tree casts a shadow of 26 meters when the angle of elevation of the sun is 24°. Find the height of the tree to the nearest meter.
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Question 192724: From the edge of a 1000 ft. cliff, the angles of depression to two cars in the valley below are 21° and 28°. How far apart are the cars? Round your answers to the nearest 0.1 ft.
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Question 192736: A painter leans a ladder against one wall of a house. The ladder is 16ft long. The base of the ladder is 10ft from the house. How high does the ladder reach on the wall of the house?
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Question 192762: If the bases of a trapizoid measure 15 and 23, what is the measure of the median of the trapizoid?
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Question 192770: Given a rectangle with a width of 6 feet, what should the length be if we want the rectangle to be a golden rectangle
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Question 192748: A building 220 feet tall casts a 100 foot long shadow. If a person looks down from the top of the building, what is the measure of the angle between the end of the shadow and the vertical side of the building (to the nearest degree)? (Assume the person's eyes are level with the top of the building.)
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Question 192829: A farmer wants to use 170 meters of fence to enclose an area of 1750 square meters. Find the dimensions of the enclosure
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Question 192829: A farmer wants to use 170 meters of fence to enclose an area of 1750 square meters. Find the dimensions of the enclosure
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Question 192983: Suppose you have 2000cm^2 of material to create a 3D figure with the greatest volume. The material can be formed into a square-based prism (cube), a cylinder or a sphere.
b) Determine the dimensions of the cylinder and sphere so that the volume is maximized.
c) Determine the volume of the cylinder and sphere.
Here are my answers. Are they correct?:
b) cube= 18.26 cm, cylinder radius= 12.6 cm Cylinder height= 12.7 cm, sphere radius = 12.6 cm
c) Cube: 6,088.4 cm^3 Cylinder: 12,568 cm^3 Sphere: 8,375 cm^3
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