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Question 134109: A square with side length 6 inches is revolved about a diagonal as an axis. Find the volume of the solid created by this revolution.
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Question 134184: Hi, please help me solve this word problem
3" squares are cut from each corner of a square with 15" sides, and the remaining flaps are folded to form a box. What is the volume of the box?
Thank you
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Question 134181: Please help me solve this problem.
Two angles are supplementary. The measure of one is twice the measure of the other. What is the measure of the larger angle?
Thanks.
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Question 134259: At a company picnic 1/2 the people there were employees, 1/3 were their spouses. What is the percent of the others?
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Question 134386: How many times might a circle and a square intersect?
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Question 134511: The length of a pool is 3 times its width, and the pool is surrounded by a grass walk 4 feet wide. If the total area enclosed by the walk (of uniform width) is 684 square feet, find the dimensions of the pool.
Thank you for your help
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Question 134754: How many distinct diagonals does a hexagon have?
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Question 134897: A painting is 10 inches tall and 15 inches wide. A print of the painting is 25 inches tall. How wide is the painting?
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Question 135050: If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will

they be at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?

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Question 135051: Hi, my question is: By what product must the radius of a circle be decreased in order to decrease the area by 75%?
Thanks for your help.
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Question 135088: The dimensions of a brick in inches are 2 by 4 by 9. How many such bricks are needed to have a total volume of exactly 2 cubic feet?
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Question 135129: can you give me a word problem of right 90 degee angle and its has to be with the pythagors theory. it could be a right angle and not right agle
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Question 135140: Hi, I have been having trouble on my math homework on this question and I was wondering if you could please help me: If the exterior angles of a convex octagon are x+13, 2x-1, 2x+6, 2x+12, 2x-17, 3x-4, 3x-10, and 4x, calculate the smallest of the eight angles.
I would really appreciate your help, I've been stuck on this problem all day. Thanks for taking your time.
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Question 135191: just need to translate this into an equoation no need to solve thanks :
1) Tom’s uncle owns a triangular piece of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 378 yards. The shortest side is 30 yards longer than one-half of the longest side. The second longest side is 2 yards shorter than the longest side. What is the length of each side?
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Question 135546: The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 inches more than its width. The length of the rectangle is 23 inches more than its width. What is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 135884: whats the radius of a circle with the area of 192 cm is
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Question 135914: The area of a triangle is 20 cm2. The height of the triangle is 3cm more than its base. Find the base of the triangle.
(A=1/2 b x h)
x = base
x + 3 = height
20 = (1/2x) (x + 3)

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Question 135984: A rectangle has a side length of 14 centimeters and an area of 98 square centimeters.Write and solve an equation to find the length of the other side of the rectangle.

Any straightfoward and correct help would be much obliged:)~:)
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Question 136004: A square room has an area of 14,400 square inches. What are the dimensions of the room in inches.
Any straightfoward and correct help would be much obliged:)~:)
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Question 136003: A square room has an area of 14,400 square inches. What are the dimensions of the room in inches.
Any straightfoward and correct help would be much obliged:)~:)
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Question 136001: The measures of the interior angles of a convex octagon are 45x, 40x, 155, 120, 155, 38x, 158, and 41x. What is the measure of the smallest interior angle?
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Question 136119: Hello I need the formula to solve this problem:
Find the area and perimeter
of a square with a diagonal of 10 inches.
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Question 136192: topic: 30-60-90 triangle in geometry
a triangle with sides 12 and 15 intercepts an angle of 60 degrees. Find the third side.
NOTE: Letters to represent sides dont mater in this problem
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Question 136329: Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).

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Question 136441: I can't seem to solve this problem that should be easy. I'm blocked and need to figure out how to solve it.
A person is building a storage area with 10 short walls of x length and 2 long walls of y length. (This looks like a long row of rectangles with y being the total length of all of them together) The total wall length will be 500ft.
For the first part of the problem I was supposed to find a formula for area in terms of x so I used A=xy which turned into x=A/y
Then I set up the equation to start finding then lengths of x and y. So I set up 10x + 2y = 500 and solved for x which is x=50 - 1/5y
So what now? I have a complete mental block and need to know where to go or what I have done wrong to get myself confused up to now. Thanks.
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Question 136592: You are filling paper cones with popcorn for a prty. The radius of each cone is 8 centimeters and the height is 15 centimeters. Find the amount of popcorn needed to fill the paper cone to the nearest cubic cnetimeter. USe 3.14 for pie.

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Question 137092: A vase is in the shape of a triangular prism. Each horizontal slice is a triangle with area 10in sq. The height of the vase is 13inches. What is the volume of the vase?
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Question 137149: The diagonal measure of a rectangular computer monitor screen is 53 cm. If the screen is 45 cm wide, then how tall is it?
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Question 137254: 6. explain how the formula for the area of a triangle can be determined by using the formula for the area of a pallallogram.
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Question 137249: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm is less than twice its width. A second rectangle is such that each dimension is the reciprocal of the corresponding dimension of the first rectangle. The perimeter of the of the second rectangle is 1/5 the perimeter of the first. Find the perimeter of the first rectangle. PLEASE HELP AND IT IS MUCH APPRICIATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Question 137366: A dog pen is in the shape of a right triangle. The longer leg measures 15 ft. The hypotenuse is 7ft shorter than three times the length of the shorter leg. How long is the shorter leg?
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Question 137369: Find three consecutive integers such that the sum of their squares is 77.
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Question 137370: A guy wire of length 50 feet is attached to the ground and to the top of an antenna. The height of the anenna is 10 feet larger than the distance from the base of the antenna to the point where the guy wire is attached to the ground. What is the height of the antenna?
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Question 137368: Factor completely.
16x^2 - 2x - 3
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Question 137367: Factor each polynomial completely.
t^2 - 9w^2
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Question 137381: What is the slope of a straight line in common terms? What is the slope of the line connecting (0,4) and (3,0)?
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Question 137376: Let y=2x-7. Make a simple graph of this equation. In what form is the equation? What is its slope? Where does it cross the y axis?
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Question 137206: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm is less than twice its width. A second rectangle is such that each dimension is the reciprocal of the corresponding dimension of the first rectangle. The perimeter of the of the second rectangle is 1/5 the perimeter of the first. Find the perimeter of the first rectangle.
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Question 137378: You are the new sales manager at Ford. In March you sell 50 new fords. In May you sell 60 new Fords. If the current trend continues, how many might you sell in October? Use formulas for slope and slope-intercept to arrive at your answer.
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Question 138370: The height h of an object t seconds after it is dropped off a building is given by the equation h=-16t^2+144. How many seconds after the rock is dropped will it hit the ground?
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Question 138559: a square has an area of 225 square feet . Find the length of each side
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Question 138606: a rectangular playground is to be fenced off and divided in two by another fence parallel to one side of the playground. 696 feet of fencing is used. Find the maximum area of the playground
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Question 138849: The sum of the measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180 degrees .Find the three angles if two angles are the same and the third angle is 60 degrees more than the other two.
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