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Question 508291: I cut a 28-ft wire into two pieces. One piece is 20ft shorter than the other, how long is each piece?
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Question 508359: You want to install a hardwood floor in a rectangular room. The floor has a perimeter of 76 feet and a length of 25 feet.
(a) What is the width of the floor?

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Question 508116: The length of a rectangle is four times the width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 210 feet find the length.
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Question 508563: a 5-foot-tall student casts a shadow 7 feet long. at the same time,a flagpole casts a shadow that is 35 feet long. how many feet tall is the flagpole?
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Question 508811: One side of a triangle is half the longest side. The third side is 17 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 78 feet. Find all three sides
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Question 508896: Ali paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 20 in. wide by 15 in. high. He then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The perimeter of the mat is 118 in. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture?
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Question 508956: 19 1/2-foot ladder leans against a building. The base of the ladder is 7 1/2 ft from the building. How high up the building does the ladder reach?
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Question 508947: The length of a rectangle is twice the width.The perimeter is 84 cm more that the width.
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Question 508947: The length of a rectangle is twice the width.The perimeter is 84 cm more that the width.
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Question 509055: One side of a triangle is half the longest side. The third side is 13 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 62 feet. Find all three sides
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Question 509155: Determine the conclusion of the conditional statement: If the lengths of the sides of a rectangle are 6 inches and 4 inches, the area is 24 square inches.
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Question 509624: i have a parking lot that is 152 yards long and 80 yards wide how much would it cost to pave
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Question 509870: At work one day, Erica Franz received 22 packages. Speedy Delivery delivered four times as many as ralph's Express, while Ralph's express delivered two more than Send Quick Package. How many packages did each service send to Erica?
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Question 510859: In a triangle, the measures of the second angle is 6 times the measure if the first angle. The measure of the third angle is 18 less than the sum of the measures of the second angle and the square of the first angle. Find the measure of each angle.
I tried this problem, but I got stuck after the 2nd equation which included finding the square of the first angle.
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Question 511037: a flower garden has the shape shown. the diameter of the outer circle is three times the diameter of the inner circle. the lengths of the walkways are 8 feet long. what is the diameter of the inner circle?
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Question 511470: The area of a rectangle is 77 square inches. If the width is seven, find the length
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Question 511524: The length of a rectangle is 3cm longer than twice the width. the area of the rectangle is 90sqcm. Find the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 511535: The area of a rectangle is 12 meters. If its width is 2 4/7 meters, find its length.
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Question 511535: The area of a rectangle is 12 meters. If its width is 2 4/7 meters, find its length.
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Question 511535: The area of a rectangle is 12 meters. If its width is 2 4/7 meters, find its length.
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Question 511619: pls.answer the question.please i nid it badly.each side of a square concrete platform is 8.7 meters long.the platform is 0.2 meter thick.compute the no.of cubic meter of concrete contained in the platform

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Question 512004: IF the surface area of a sphere is 20 square centimeters, what is the radius?
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Question 512160: you have 80 ft of fencing to enclose a rectangular yard. The yard is 10 ft wide by 30 ft long. What is the area of the rectangular yard?
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Question 512381: what is the square footage of a triangle that has a base of 25 feet and a height of 13 feet?

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Question 512615: Brian is putting a fence around his garden. The garden is 4ft wide and 7ft long. He has 10yd of fence. Does he have enough fence to put a fence all the way around his garden?
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Question 512628: a triangle has a base of 48in and a height of 3ft. what is its area in square feet?
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Question 512670: the sunof 41 and w + 26
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Question 512706: please help me tutor! and could you please show me how you got the answer so i know how to do the next problem like this in the future.
i made a pot of sour lemon milk for four people using one quart of milk and 2.8 oz of lemon pulp. Now Scales likes extra lemon in his milk, so he added .5 oz pulp to his glass. Now how much lemon pulp is in Scales glass?
Now a plain everyday cloak costs $4.70 and a fancier model costs $5.50, Mummy Woman is always telling me to splurge on myself because i deserve it. So, how much more money will i need for the fancy cloak if ive already collected 18 bottles to recycle for $.20 each?
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Question 512873: Three squares with areas of 150 cm2, 54 cm2, and 24 cm2 are displayed on a computer monitor. What is the sum (in radical form) of the perimeters of these squares
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Question 512959: if the sum of the lengths of two sides of a triangle is 18, what is the largest possible integral value for the 3rd side?

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Question 512959: if the sum of the lengths of two sides of a triangle is 18, what is the largest possible integral value for the 3rd side?

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Question 513039: find the perimeter of a triangle if one side is 10 feet, another side is one-third the perimeter, and the third side is half the perimeter

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Question 513038: find the perimeter of a triangle if one side is 10 feet, another side is one-third the perimeter, and the third side is half the perimeter
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Question 513268: a rectangular pool is twice as long as it is wide. What are the dimensions of the pool if the perimiter is 42 yd?
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Question 513351: A carpenter is building a wood frame. The height of the frame is 1 ft less than three times the width. What is the width of the largest door frame that can be constructed from a board 19 ft long?
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Question 513307: so there is a triangle. The perimeter = 29 units all together! one of the sides is 4 units longer than the 1st side, and the third side is 3 times longer than the other side. So you would have to solve for x!
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Question 513800: the length of a rectangle is 12cm more than its width. A second rectangle is 3cm shorter in width and 5cm longer in length than the first rectanlge and has a perimeter of 68cm. What are the dimensions of the second rectanlge?
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Question 513834: 1. a rectangle has a base of x units. the area is 3x^2+4x square units. what is the height of the rectangle in terms of x?
2.The endpoints of a diameter of a circle are A(6,-1) and B(-6,-1). what is the circumference and area of the circle? leave your terms in pie.
3.find the perimeter of a triangle with endpoints at (-4,2), (6,2), (6,7). leave answer in radical form.
4. If the perimeter of a square is 88 inches, what is the area?
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Question 513919: bennys collection of nickles and dimes is worth $2.00. He has 22 total coins. How many of each type of coin does he have?

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Question 514022: in an isosceles triangle, the measure of one of the two equal angles is 15degrees more than the measure of the third angle. find the measure of each angle.
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Question 514029: KYLE IS TAPPING TOGETHER STRIPS OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER FOR AN ART PROJECT . EACH STRIP OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER IS 11 OVER 12 FEET LONG , ESTIMATE HOW MANY STRIPS HE WILL NEED TO MAKE IT 10 FEET LONG
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Question 514187: one side of a triangle has the length of 6, the second side has a length of 7 which of the following could be the area of this triangle? is it 13,21 or 24 (could be more than one answer)
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Question 514199: a line l with a slope of 1/4 passes through the points (0,1/20 and (4,y). What is the value of y?
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Question 514184: in the x-y plane, the equation y=1/2x-3 is a line that is perpendicualr to the graph of the equation y=mx+(1/3). what is the value of m?
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Question 514197: A triangle has a base length of 13 and its two ther sides are equal in length. If the lengths of the sides of the triangle are integers, what is the shortest possible length of a side?
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