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Question 231536: the perimeter of a rectangle is 80 inches. find the dimensions if its length is 3 inches greater than its width
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Question 231535: The second angle of a triangular building lot is three times as large as the first. The third angle is ten degrees more than the sum of the other two angles. Find the measure of the third angle
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Question 231591: The sum of three numbers is 94. The second number is 2 less than the first number, and the third number is 6 more than the first. Determine the numbers.
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Question 231916: The sum of the measures of two angles is 280 degrees. Three tomes the measure of one angle is 24 less than the measure of the other angle. What is the measure of each angle?

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Question 231893: how do I find the area of a running track shaped like a rectangle with a semicircle on each end. The distance around the track is 5280 ft. The straightaway is twice the width of the field I need to find the area enclosed by the track to the nearest sq foot. What formula would I use?
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Question 231985: The perimeter of a triangle is 93 cm. If 2 sides are equally long and the third is 9 cm longer than the others, find the lengths of the three sides.
I was trying every possible way with no luck. Could you please help me?
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Question 232287: a triangles perimeter is 40cm the longest side is three times as long as the middle side and the shortest side is 5cm shorter then the middle how long is each side
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Question 232621: 2/5 + ? = 1
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Question 232717: How many 1ft by 1ft squares does it take to fill a 8ft by 25ft rectangle?
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Question 232882: the perimeter of a rectangular pool is 140 yd. if the length is 20 yd less than twice the width, find the length and the width
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Question 233123: A charter company will provide a plane for a fare of $200 each for 80 or fewer passengers. For each passenger in excess of 80, the fare is decreased by $2.00 per person for everyone. What number of passengers would produce the greatest revenue for the company.
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Question 233478: What is the volume of a right circular cylinder whose height is 10 cm and the radius of whose base is 3 cm? Let pi = 3.14. How do I set this up in an equation?
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Question 233433: An exhibit hall in a convention center measures 20 by 30 yards. A square area of 9 square yards must be reserved in one corner for registration. How many square yards will remain for exhibit space?
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Question 233494: find the length of the altitude to the 26in side of a triangle whose sides are 10,24, and 26 inches in length.
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Question 233602: If the area A of a triangle is 60 sq m and the base b is 20 m what is the altitude h?
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Question 233601: THE LENGTH OF A RECTANGLE IS 14 FEET MORE THAN THE WIDTH. THE PERIMETER OF THE RECTANGLE IS 136 FIND THE LENGTH.
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Question 233654: what is the ratio of the area of square to the area of an equilateral triangle
if they have the same perimeter ?

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Question 233660: can a regular polygon have an interior angle of 157 degrees ?
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Question 233826: When the radius of a circle is increaded by 5, its area is increased by 32pie. What is the radius of the original cirlce?
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Question 233939: In any triangle, the sum of the measures of the angles is 180Degrees. In triangle ABC, Angle A is 4 times as large as Angle B. Angle C measures 20degrees less than Angle B. Find the measure of each angle.
I know he answer are the following but I need help figuring out how to write the equation and then help to solve A=133.32 B=33.33 C=13.33
Please help!
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Question 234189: If the area a of a triangle is 60 sq m and the base is 20 m what is the altitude
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Question 234189: If the area a of a triangle is 60 sq m and the base is 20 m what is the altitude
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Question 234220: the equation 7x-8a=3x+24a for x
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Question 234287: Find the missing dimension in each rectangle.
12cm. width. area=276cm 2 squared, find missing dimension.
25ft. width. area=1125ft. 2 squared, find missing dimension
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Question 234282: The area of a rectangle is 1260 square inches. Its length is 36 inches.
Find the width.
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Question 234427: If each edge of a cube is increased by 30%, by what percent does the volume increase?
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Question 232100: how do i do this it says the perimeter of a parallelogram is 76 meter. the length of the longer side is 4 meters less than 5 times the shorter side how do i do this
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Question 234518: a square plywood platform has a perimeter which is 7 times the lenght of side, decreased by 21. find the lenght of a side
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Question 234661: 5/6 of a number is -60. What is that number?
Thanks for any help

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Question 234754: A park has an area of 64 square meters and a perimeter of 40 meters. Please tell me the length and width of the park.
Thanks,
Deana
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Question 234793: two sides of a pentagon have length (3x-5) cm and three sides of length (2x-1) cm. if the perimeter is 89 cm, what is the length of longest side?

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Question 234895: In my textbook these are called Perimeter Problems. I'll greatly appreciate any help I can get! If I can get help before Thurday November 4, it will be even more appriciated seeing as though I have a quiz on this chapter that evening!
One side of a triangle is three times the shortest side.
The third side is 7 feet more than the shortest side.
The perimeter is 62 feet. Find all three sides.

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Question 234930: The volume of a rectangular box is 105 cubic inches. If the top is 6 inches by 3.5 inches, what is the height?
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Question 234954: At 12:22 a clock's hour hand is how many degrees away from a vertical position?
a) 10° b) 11° c) 12° d) 21° e) 22°
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Question 234982: A 4 X 4 X 4 cubical box contains 64 identical small cubes that exactly fill the box. how many of the small cubes touch a side or the bottom of the box ?
a) 48 b) 52 c) 60 d) 64 e) 80
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Question 234933: The perimeter of a rectangular playground area is 308 feet. If the length of the playground is 34 feet more than twice the width, find the length and width of the playground. Construct an algebraic equation with a variable and solve using algebra steps.
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Question 235433: How many feet would a road drop with a 2% slope in 400ft.?
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Question 235469: The width of a rectangle is 3 feet less than its length. If the perimeter is 22 feet, what is the width?

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Question 235548: A piece of cloth measures 2 yards one foot and 4 inches in length. What is the length in feet?

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Question 235879: could you please help me solve these three problems :
1)Mrs. Gardner went to the market. She purchased some lettuce heads and some tomatoes. There were 12 items purchased. She bought twice as many tomatoes as lettuce heads.
2)The Perimeter of a rectangle is 600. The length of the rectangle is 2 more than 3 times the width.
3)3 times the first of three consecutive numbers is 4 more than 2 times the second.

please and thank you :)

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Question 236005: A customer purchased a car and financed &16,000. The customer borrowed part of the money from a bank charging 10% annual interest and the rest from a credit union at 8% annual interest. If the total interest for the year was $1390, how much was borrowed from the bank and how much was borrowed from the credit union?
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Question 236108: A cube is painted red and then cut into 1000 identical smaller cubes. How many of these cubes are painted red on at least two faces?
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