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Question 275462: elimination problem: two angles are complementary. the sum of the measure of the first angle and half the second angle is 64. find the measure of the smaller angle
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Question 275869: 2 parallel lines are located 4 inches apart. An equilateral triangle with 5 inch sides is drawn in the same plane. What is the maximum number of intersections possible between the 2 parallel lines and the triangle.
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Question 275915: The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than three times the width. Find the dimensions of this rectangle if the area is 21 cm^2.
I found the answer by trial and error (9 & 2 1/3) but I need to know how to actually figure it out and show work. Is there another way besides just plugging in numbers? Thank you!
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Question 276258: a certain rectangle is 3cm longer than it is wide. The area is 550. Find the dimensions

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Question 276252: the volumes of two similar solids, A and B, are in the ratio 1:64,respectively.What is the ratio of the surface area of solid A to the surface area of solid B? Can you please express it in a common fraction?

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Question 276270: find two integers that differ by 6 while their squares differ by 132
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Question 276319: Jim has designed a rectangle with an area of 100 sq feet and a perimeter of 401 ft. What are the dimentions of Jims rectangle?
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Question 276325: The area of a rectangle is 45 inches. One dimension is 5 inches. What is the perimeter?
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Question 276249: I would really appreciate help with this problem. Thanks!
Shipping: A shipping box is reinforced with steel bands in all three directions. A total of 20.5 feet of steel tape is to be used, with 6 inches of waste because of a 2 inch overlap in each direction. If the box has a square base and a volume of 2 cubic feet, find the dimensions.
If you could also show me how to check the answer I would really appreciate it.
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Question 276490: A triangle with sides of length 13, 14 and 15 inches is to be cut whole from a rectangular sheet of paper. Expressed in square inches, what is the minimum area that this rectangular sheet can have?
(a) 168 (b) 174 (c) 188 (d) 202 (e) None of the above
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Question 276569: The Forever Green Nursery owns 7000 white pine trees. Each year the nursery plans to sell 12% of the trees and to then plant 600 new ones. Dale the nursery manager, thinks this is a good idea because they will never run out of trees to sell. Chris, the nursery accountant and bookkeeper, thinks that they will eventually run out of trees. Who is right, Dale or Chris? If Chris is right, when will they run out of trees?
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Question 276730: what is the area of a square whos sides measures 10 centimeters
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Question 276794: The length of a rectangular patio is 4 ft more than the width. The area is 96 ft2. Find the length and the width.

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Question 276826: A Square-shaped room measures 6ft on side. What is the preimeter of this room?
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Question 276878: if a garden is shaped like a square and one side is fifteen inches long how much fencing is needed
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Question 277089: Suzy wears a baseball cap all the time to emphasize that she is a tomboy. She’s always setting up a problem to solve. Today, she wants to figure out the distance across a nearby river. She can’t swim, but she does have a yardstick. Can you suggest a way for her to find the distance without adding additional measuring tools? Please explain.

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Question 277461: The volume of a cube is 64cm3. What is the total length of all the edges of the cube, in centimeters?
A)48 B) 32 C) 64 D) 40 E) 96

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Question 277395: While rummaging in his great aunt's attic, Bernard found a small figurine that he believed to be made out of silver. To test his guess, he looked up the density of silver in his chemistry book and found that it was 10.5 g/cm^3. He found that the figure weighed 149 grams. To determine its volume, he dropped it into a cylindrical glass of water. If the diameter of the glass was 6 centimeters, and the figurine was pure silver, by how much should the water level in the glass rise?
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Question 277616: Jarod is having a problem with rabbits getting in his vegetable garden, so he decides to fence it in. The length of the garden is 12 feet more than 5 times the width. He needs 132 feet of fencing to do the job. Find the length and width of the garden.
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Question 277639: x+7x=8x
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Question 277641: 1<1-2x/3<5
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Question 277638: -10x-6+4x=-4x+8
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Question 277687: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 6 more than the shorter leg. The longer leg is three more than the shorter leg. Find the length of the shorter leg.
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Question 277382: I would really appreciate help with this problem. Thanks! I submitted this question once but I am still not sure of the answer. Could you also walk me through checking the answer.
Shipping: A shipping box is reinforced with steel bands in all three directions. A total of 20.5 feet of steel tape is to be used, with 6 inches of waste because of a 2 inch overlap in each direction. If the box has a square base and a volume of 2 cubic feet, find the dimensions.

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Question 277724: A triangle has the same area and base as a rectangle. If the rectangle height is 6 cm,then what is the triangle height?
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Question 277719: Three cubes, all with edges 2 cm., are stacked on top of the other .What is the surface area of the resulting solid?
A)40 B) 56 C) 48 D) 28 E) 96
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Question 277477: A triangle has the same area and base as a rectangle. If the rectangle height is 6 cm,then what is the triangle height?
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Question 277843: A 15 inch television set has a width of 12 inches, what is it's height?

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Question 277969: How many rectangular pieces of wood of size 20 cm by 45 cm can be cut from a plywood sheet of 120 cm by 240 cm?
A 29 B 30 C 31 D 32 E 33

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Question 278163: A triangular piece of glass is being cut so that the height of the triangle is 4 inches shorter than twice the base. If the area of the triangle is 80 square inches, how long is the height of the triangle?
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Question 278169: a square and a rectangle have the same perimeter. the length of the rectangle is 4cm less than twice the side of the square, and the width of the rectangle is 6cm less than the side of the square. find the perimeter of each figure.
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Question 278369: The perimeter of a triangle is 45 inches. The fist side is twice the length of the second, and the third side is 5 inches longer than the second. Find the length of each side.
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Question 278355: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 13, 13, and 10. The circumscribed circle of a triangle is a circle that goes through each of the three vertices of the triangle and has its centre inside the triangle.Find the radius of the circumscribed circle.

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Question 278383: The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 36. Find the numbers.
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Question 278383: The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 36. Find the numbers.
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Question 278383: The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 36. Find the numbers.
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Question 278383: The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 36. Find the numbers.
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Question 278375: A farmer wishes to raise 300 chick but estimates that only 60% of the eggs that he puts into the incubator will hatch. How many eggs should be put into the incubator?
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Question 278368: What is the length of the edge of a cube whose surface area is 96e^2 ?
A)16e B) 8e C) 8e^2 D) 4 e^2 E) 4e

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Question 278464: what is the volume of an oval object measuring two inches in length, 1.5 inches in width and 1.3 inches in height. Please show me the math, if you will. Thank you. My email address is bendtm@sympatico.ca
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Question 278522: Could you please help me with this problem? I have no idea how to even go about figuring this one out.
Archie ate 50 pies in 5 days. Each day he ate 3 more pies than the day before. How many pies did he eat each of the 5 days?
Thank you so much.
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Question 278602: the length of a rectangle is two more than three times its width the perimeter is 188. what is the length?
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Question 278898: The sum of the base and the height of a triangle is 10 cm. Find the dimensions for which the area is a maximum?

The triangle with maximum area has a height of_ cm and a base of_cm?
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Question 279131: can you please tell me a tree factor for "1530"?

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Question 279160: WHATS THE HYPOTENUSE OF A 74'X 18' RECTANGLE
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