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Question 205479: Suppose you need to construct a right triangle in which the shortest side is eight feet less than the largest side and the third side is seven feet more than the shortest side.
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Question 205500: Compare the area of the circle with the maximum area of the rectangular (square) shape. How much larger is the area of the circle?
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Question 205656: The width of a rectangle is five more than one-third of its length. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34 meters, what is the length of the shorter side?
I come up with the answer of 9m, but the correct answer is 8m. Can someone please explain this to me.
Thank you,
Connie
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Question 205647: Dave and Jane wells have a new rectangular driveway. The perimeter of the driveway is 168 feet. the length is 12 feet longer than three times the width. what are the dimensions of the driveway. I followed an example in the book and not sure if it is understandable or not will post it anyway.
168=2w+2(2w+3) = 168=2w+4w+6 = 168=6w+6 168-6 = 6w +6-6=162/6 6w/6 w=27
2w+3=2(27) +3 = 54+3 = 57w=27 L=57
If you have the book I followed example 3 page 81.
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Question 205648: Mr. McGreggor is redesigning his garden. If the new width is half of the old wideth and the new length is 4 feet less than twice the old wide, the garden will be 24 square feet. Find the old width.
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Connie
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Question 205679: in the figure below, what is the perimeter of square ABCD if diagonal AC=8?
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Question 205491: The square is divided into 5 congruent rectangles. If the perimeter of one rectangle is 30 units, what is the perimeter of the square?
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Question 205780: One angle of a triangle is 1/3 the largest angle, but twice the smallest. Find the largest angle.
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Question 205783: One angle of a triangle is 1/3 the largest angle, but twice the smallest. Find the largest angle.
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Question 205823: A leather coin purse has the shape of a triangle. Two sides are equal in length and the third side is 3 centimeters shorter than one and one-half times the length of the equal sides. The perimeter is 28.5 centimeters. Find the length of the sides.
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Question 205936: Help pls. It's confusing.
Karla weighs 42 lbs more than mara. Their combined weight is 68lbs. less than three times Mara's weight. How much does Karla weigh?
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Question 205941: Kindly help me with this question pls.
Two persons start at the same time from two places 66 km apart travelling towards each other. One travel 10 kph and the other 12 kph. How long will they travel before they meet?
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Question 205940: I don't get this.
How would I solve it.
Please help!
The salary of an employee was divided as follows: 1/5 for electric bill, 1/2 for food, and 1/6 for transportation. How much of the salary did he save?
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Question 205980: The width of a rectangle is 2 ft less than the length. The area is 8ft^2. Find the length and the width.
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Question 205980: The width of a rectangle is 2 ft less than the length. The area is 8ft^2. Find the length and the width.
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Question 205945: the perimeter of a standard basketball court is 288 ft. find the dimensions of the basketball court if its length is 44ft. longer than its width.
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Question 206094: The measures of the three angles of a triangle has the ratio of 3:4:5. What are the measurement of the angles?
Note: Please include representations of any used variable. Say, Let x be.....
Thank you very much..
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Question 206127: help graph 3x-5y = -9
5x-6y = -8

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Question 206129: help graph 4x + 5y = -2
4y + (-x) = 11
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Question 206126: help graph 3x-5y = -9
5x-6y = -8

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Question 206139: Given the circumference of a circle to be 4 Pie inches, find the area.
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Question 206148: If 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, about howmany gallons of paint are needed to paint the outside of a sperical tank of diameter 20 feet?
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Question 206152: true or False The diameter of the moon is approximatelty one-fourth the diameter of Earth, hence the volume of the moon is one-fourth the volume of Earth.
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Question 206151: True or False The total surface area of a cube each of whose edges is 12 inches long is 6 square feet.
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Question 206141: Given that twice the complement is three-fifths the supplement, find the measure of the angle.
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Question 206149: If 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, about how many gallons of paint are needed to paint the outside of a spherical tank of diameter 20 feet?
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Question 206160: given the sum of two numbers is thirty and that twice the first number is 3 more than the second,find the largest number
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Question 206159: given that twice the complement is three-fifths the supplement find the measure of the angle
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Question 206324: The slope of line l is greater than 1, and teh angle formed by line l and the y-axis has a degree measure of m. which of the following is the fange of possible values for m?
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Question 206343: which parabola intersects the x-axis in two distinct points?
A) y= (x+5)^2
B) y= (x-5)^2
C) y= x^2-25
D) y= x^2+25
E) y= (x-4)^2
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Question 206343: which parabola intersects the x-axis in two distinct points?
A) y= (x+5)^2
B) y= (x-5)^2
C) y= x^2-25
D) y= x^2+25
E) y= (x-4)^2
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Question 206405: One of the angles of a triangle is equal to the sum of the other two angles. If the ratio of the other two angles is 4:5, find the angles of the triangle.
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Question 206516: Celsius to Fahrenheit

solve for C: F= 9 over 5 c +32

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Question 206513: Area of a Rectangle

Solve for w: A=lw

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Question 206518: Perimeter of a Square P=4s

solve for s

find s when p = 44 cm

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Question 206515: Perimeter of an Equilateral Triangle

Solve for s: P=3s

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Question 193535: Jeremy has a fish tank that has a 40-cm by 70-cm rectangular
base. The water is 25 cm deep. When he drops rocks
into the tank, the water goes up by 2 cm. What is the volume
in liters of the rocks?
It seems to me this is measuring by water displacement, but I do not understand how to go about solving this problem. Thank you.
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Question 206517: Area of a Trapezoid.

solve for H: A= h over 2 (b^1+b^2)

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Question 206517: Area of a Trapezoid.

solve for H: A= h over 2 (b^1+b^2)

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Question 206365: The dimensions of a garden are in whole numbers. If the length is reduced by 3 and the width reduced by 1 then the area is reduced by half. What were the dimensions and area of the original rectangle.
I know the answer but cannot find the math to get to it!
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Question 206647: Hello,
Can someone please help me with this problem.

1. Write down all possible subsets of {x, y, z}

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Question 206610: suppose that a box has a base with a width of x, a length of x+1 and a hieght of 2 inches. It is cut from a rectangular sheet of materrial with an area of 182 inches2 find the dimension of the box.
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Question 206646: Hi
Can someone please help me. I have the following questions

1. In a survey of 75 resorts, it was reported that:
45 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms
37 provided laundry services
44 provided business centers
23 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms and laundry services
29 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms and business centers
21 provided laundry services and business centers
12 provided all three features
Construct a Venn diagram and use it to answer the following questions:
(a) How many of the resorts provided only refrigerators in the guest rooms?
(b) How many of the resorts provided exactly one of the features?
(c) How many of the resorts provided at least one of the features?
(d) How many of the resorts provided exactly two of the features?
(e) How many of the resorts provided none of the features?

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