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Question 198156: A rectangular patio is 7 ft longer than it is wide. Determine the dimensions of the patio if it measures 13 ft diagonally.
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Question 198202: during one stage of the drawbridges motion the reaised ead is 15 yards above ground. what is the incline of the drawbridge to the nearest hundreth?
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Question 198287: A quadrilateral's four angles measure x + 5, x + 10, x - 10, and 2x - 5. Find the measure of the largest angle.
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Question 198204: two simmers are observed by a lifegaurd in a 30 feet tower above the water the angles of depression are 12.7 and 14.5 how far apart of the swimmers?
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Question 198329: A life insurance table indicates that a woman who is now A years old can expect to live E years longer. Suppose that A and E are linearly related and that E=50 when A=24 and E=20 when A=60.
a. At what age may a woman except to live 30 years longer?
b. What is the life expectancy of a newborn female child?
c. At what age is the life expectancy zero?
Please help to solve the above problem. Help is appreaciated.
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Question 198388: A landscape architect used the entire length of an 80ft rope to lay out a flower bed in the shape of a square. In another area, he used the entire length of the same rope to lay out a second flower bed in the shape of a circle.
Perimeter of square = 80 feet Circumference of circle = 80 feet
How many square feet greater is the area of one of the flower beds than the other? (use 3.14 for pi)

This looks to be from a textbook, but no reference are made on the paper.
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Question 198438: 10ft.wide octagon shape, need to know what lenght and the angle cut to make. thank you
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Question 198521: The altitude of a triangle is 3/4 the length of its base. If the altitude were increased by 3 feet and the base decreased by 3 feet, the area would be unchanged. Find the length of the base and altitude.
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Question 198520: A rectangular flower bed 30 yards long by 20 yards wide has a walk of uniform width around it. If the area of the path is 1/4 that of the flower bed, find the width of the path.
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Question 198566: A rectangular flower bed 30 yards long by 24 yards wide has a walk of uniform width around it. If the area of the path is 1/4 that of the flower bed, find the width of the path.
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Question 198671: 2. A square support unit in a television is made with a side measuring 4 centimeters. A new model being designed for the upcoming year will have a larger square with a side measuring 4.3 centimeters. By how much will the area of the square be increased?
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Question 199037This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry
: Find the length x in the figure, if the shaded aera is 144cm^2.This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry

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Question 199130: the perimeter of certain rectangule is16 timesthe width. the lengthis 12cm. more than the width. find the widthodf the rectangule
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Question 199167: If the sides of a square are lengthened by 8cm, the area becomes 144cm^2. Find the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 199233: Two angles are complementary. The sum of the measure of the first angle and the one-fourth the second angel is 75º. Find the measures of the angles.
I know that two angles have to equal 90º. So do I take 1/4 of 75º = 18.75. 90-18.75 = 71.25. Would the angles be 75º, 18.75º & 71.25º?
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Question 199239: A national forest service wanted to estimate the number of deer in a particular national park. They caught and tagged 71 deer and released them back into the park Later they selected a sample of 272 deer. Of the 272 deer, 16 were tagged. Assuming that the proportion of tagged deeer in the sample holds for all deer in the forest, what is the best estimate of the number of deer in the park?
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Question 199280: The president of a company is forming a committee. He must choose 8 people out of his 42 employees to be on this committee. How many combinations are possible?
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Question 199429: A length of wire is cut into two pieces, one of which is bent to form a circle, the other a square. How should the wire be cut if the area enclosed by the two curves is to be a minimum?
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Question 199365: A radio station is going to construct a 12-foot tower for a new antenna. The tower will be supported by three cables. One end of each cable is attached at the top of the tower: the other end of each cable is attached to the ground 16 feet from the base of the tower. What is the total length of the three cables?
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Question 199522: Ship A is traveling due east at 18 km/h as it passes a point 40 km due south of Ship B, which is traveling due south at 16 km/h. How much later are the ships nearest each other?
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Question 199520:
When two electric resistors R1 and R2 are in series, their total resistance (the sum) is 32 ohms. If the same resistors are in parallel, their total resistance (the reciprocal of which equals the sum of the reciprocals of the individual resistances) is the maximum possible for two such resistors. What is the resistance of each?
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Question 199523: Canadian Postal Service regulations require that the sum of three dimensions of a rectangular package not exceed 3 m. What are the dimensions of the largest rectangular box with square ends that can be mailed?
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Question 199778: If the radius of a very small circle is 2.34 * 10^-8 centimeters, then what is the circles area?
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Question 199772: How many different three-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 0 through 9 if the first digit must be odd and the last digit must be even?
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Question 199796: Diameter of a Circle
If the diameter of a circle is 1.3 * 10^-12 meters, then what is its radius?
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Question 199521: A regular storage area is to be constructed along the side of a tall building. A security fence is required along the remaining three sides of the area. What is the maximum area that can be enclosed with 800m of fencing?
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Question 199953: What is the equation for a circle with its center at the origin and a tangent whose equation is y=7?
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Question 199946: What is the equation for a circle with a diameter having the following endpoints: N(0,1) and Q(18,1)?
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Question 199996: If a=35 cm and c=37 cm, find b.

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Question 200118: Cheyenne will drive 3,000 miles across Interstate 90. She plans to drive 7 hours each day averaging 60 miles per hour. What is the least number of days the trip will take?

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Question 200174This question is from textbook Intermediate Algebra
: The width of a triangle is 4 meters shorter than its height. What are the height and width of the triangle if the area is 48 square meters?This question is from textbook Intermediate Algebra

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Question 200134: lisa is using a 100 foot rope to enclose an area, which shape will have the maximum area ? square, triangle, circle, hexagon, pentagon, or rectangle

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Question 200555: Area of a Painting
A rectangular painting with a width of x centimeters has an area of x^2 + 50x square centimeters. Find a binomial that represents the length.

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Question 200734: the length of a table is 5m greater than the width. the area is 66m^2. Find the dimensions of the table.
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Question 200841: A circle is tangent to the x-axis and to the y-axis. The coordinates of its center are both positive. The area of the circle is 64pie. What are the coordinates of the point of tangency on the y-axis?
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Question 200873: Half the supplement of an angle is 12 degrees less than twice the complement of the angle. Find the measure of the angle.
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Question 200956: A manufacturer of cartridges for stereo systems has designed a stylus with parabolic cross section. The equation of the parabola is y=16x^2 where x and y are measured is millimeters . If the stylus sits in a record groove whose sides make an angle with the horizontal direction where tan of the angle = 1.75 , find the points of contact P and Q of the stylus with the groove.
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Question 201065: Find the values of a and b that result in the given sum.
[(a+1)x^2 + bx + 2] + [(b-2)x^2 - ax + 5] = x^2 - 4x + 7

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Question 201183: 1)The length of a rectangle is 1 meter less than four times the width. If the area of the rectangle is 60 square meters, find the dimensions. Width____ft, Lenth_____ft.
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Question 201345: A rectangle is 4 times as long as it is wide. A second rectangle is 5 centimeters longer and 2 centimeters wider than the first. The area of the second rectangle is 270 square centimeters greater than the first. What are the demensions of the original rectangle?
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Question 201482: A disc jockey must play 16 commercial spots during 1 hour of a radio show. Each commercial is either 30 seconds long or 60 seconds long. If the total commercial time during 1 hour is 13 min, how many 30 second commercials were played that hour? How many 60 second commercials?
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Question 201476: Two angles are complementary. The sum of the measure of the first angle and half the second angle is 70 degrees. Find the measures of the angle.
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Question 201475: Two angles are complementary. The sum of the measure of the first angle and half the second angle is 70 degrees. Find the measures of the angle.
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