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Question 94092: Find the circumference of a circle with the area 36pi square centimeters?
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Question 94092: Find the circumference of a circle with the area 36pi square centimeters?
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Question 94098: simplify x^3x^6
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Question 94102: solve this equation by using the quadratic formula or by factoring: x^2+3x=0 if it is okay can you please show me step by step how you got the answer so I can try the other two on my own using the steps, if you can't it is alright.
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Question 94103: The length of a rectangle is 3cm greater than its width. The perimeter is 24 cm. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
-----thanks again for all your help-----
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Question 94106: Can you solve the equation using quadratic formula x^2-5x-24=0 can you please show me the steps so I can do the next one on my own.
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Question 94370: Here is the problem I am having trouble with:The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than 5 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 65 cm2, find the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest thousandth.I know the width will be x and the length will be 5x+2 but I'm not sure how to proceed. Can you help? Thanks
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Question 94499: Hello,

I need help solving this problem:

A rectangle is 6 centimeters wide and 9 centimeters long. If the length and width are increased by the same amount, the area is increased by 100 square centimeters. Find the new dimensions.

Thank you
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Question 94558: Show the conjecture is false by finding a counter example.
The quotient of two whole numbers is a whole number.
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Question 94701: 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 94704: The diameter of the moon is approximately one fourth the diameter of Earth, hence the volume of the moon is one fourth the volume of Earth. Is it true or false?
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Question 95189: Hello! This problem has got me here for a good hour and I still cannot figure it out.
A traveling salesperson shows up at the apartment of a math teacher to peddle her wares. During the course of her spiel, the salesperson discovers that the teacher has 3 children and inquires as to their ages.
The teacher answers, "The sum of my children's ages is 13."
The salesperson immediately declares, "That's not enough information to deduce your kid's ages!"
The teacher continues, "Well, the product of their ages is the same as my apartment number."
After taking a quick check of the apartment number, the salesperson thinks for a minute but then sighs, "That's STILL not enough information for me to figure out."
So the teacher says, "Oh, I forgott to mention, my eldest child is allergic to chocolate."
At which point the salesperson exclaims, "Aha, now I know all their ages!"
What are the ages of the children?

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Question 95221: Five times the compliment of an angle less twice the angle's supplement is 40 degrees. Find the measure of the supplement.
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Question 95253: If the length of a rectangle is decreased by 2 inches and its width is increased by 2 inches, the area of the rectangle increases by 16 square inches. If the length is increased by 5 inches and the width is decreased by 3 inches, the area of the rectangle increases by 15 square inches. What is the area of the original rectangle?
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Question 95355: The length of a rectangle is 6 inches more than its width. When the lenght is doubled and the width is increased by 5 inches, the perimeter is 90 inches. What was the original length of the rectangle?
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Question 95455: The length of a rectangle is 5 cm more than 4 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 80 cm2, find the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest thousandth.

Please Help!
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Question 95605: The volume of a can of soup is 144 PI inches cubed. The radius of the can is 6 inches. What is the height of the can?
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Question 95856: To support a young tree, you attach wires from the trunk to the ground. The obtuse angle the wire makes with the ground is supplementary to the acute angle the wire makes, and it is four times as large. Find the measures of the angles.
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Question 96033: The state of Wyoming is rectangular shape. The length of this rectangular state is 185 miles less than twice the width. If the state's perimeter is 1280 miles, what are the dimensions?
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Question 96166: hello. i have a question. about this problem i have been working on can u help?
the length of a rectangle is 2x-5 and its width is x+9. express the area of the rectangle. express the perimeter.
please help me.
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Question 96779: i need help with this problem- question is: the smallest angle in a triangle is half the largest angle. the middle angle measures 30 degrees less than the largest angle. find the measures of each angle.
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Question 96806: A farmer has 26 meters of fencing available to enclose a rectangular region. he wants the rectangular garden to have an area o 40 square meters. find the dimension of the garden.
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Question 96841: The problem goes on like this one:
"the sum of two numbers is equal to 20. the larger number is 3 times bigger than the other number. Find the numbers."
could you please help me? solve this by using a quadratic formula, completing the square or by factoring..thanks,.=)
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Question 96916: Grant Wood painted his most famous work, American Gothic, in 1930 on compositition board with perimeter 108,44 in. If the painting is 5.54 in. taller than it is wide, find the dimensions of the painting.
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Question 96915: The Bermuda Triangle supposedly causes trouble for aircraft pilots. It has a perimeter of 3075 mi. The shortest side measures 75 mi less than the middle side, and the longest side measures 375 mi more than the middle side. Find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 97031: Bob fenced in a rectangular garden in his yard. The length of the rectangle is 6 feet longer than the width and the perimeter is 104 feet. What is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 97137: One leg of a right triangle is 2 in. longer than the other leg. The hypotenuse is 10 in. long. What are the lengths of the legs of the triangle?
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Question 97298: I am a 2-dimensional figure. I have two pairs of parallel sides. None of my angles is a right angle. All of my sides are the same length. What ams I?
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Question 97311: If a bridge that is one mile long is attached to the ground on either side, and you cut it in the middle and add one foot, what is the height of how far the bridge bows up in the middle?
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Question 97568: B is the midpoint of line AC . Line AB = 8v and Line Ac= 3v+42 .what is BC?
the only thing that i have is that line BC should be equal to line AB.
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Question 97667: One leg of a right triangle is 2 inches smaller than the hypotenuse. The other leg is 5 inches long. What are the lengths of the unknown leg and hypotenuse?
Not sure if I set it up right.
(x+2)^2 + 5^2 = x^2

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Question 97699: 7R/12=-14
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Question 97720: 2 times a number, increased by 28 is less than or eaqual to 6 times that number.
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Question 97721: The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 feet less than it's width. If the perimeter of the playing field is 230 feet, find the length and width of the field.
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Question 98263: A girl stands 400 ft. from a tree. With her eye at ground level she sights along a yard stick and finds the top of the yard stick coincides with the top of the tree when the bottom of the yard stick is 4 feet from her eye. Find the height of the tree.
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Question 98505: A circular sheet of paper of radius 6 cm is cut into three equal sectors, and each sector is formed into a cone with no overlap. What is the height in centimeters of each cone?
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Question 98631: How to solve the Geometry problem below?
The measure of 1 angle of a linear pair is 3 times the measure of the other angle. Find the measure of the 2 angles.

I know the answer is 45 degrees, 135 degrees
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Question 98653: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose area is 180cm^2 and whose perimeter is 54 cm.
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