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Question 294639: r=(24,780/10,000)^(1/5)-1
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Question 294750: A rectangular room measures 20 feet on one side. If its area is 360 square feet, what is its perimeter?

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Question 294943: The perimeter of a rectangle is 38 centimeters. The length is 7.5 centimeters. What is the width?
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Question 295063: what is the number halfway between 1/8 and 7/12?
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Question 295060: if a+b+c= 26, a+b=15 and b+c=20, find the value of b.
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Question 295065: the average mark on a test for six students was calculated to be 84. one of the student's marks was accidentally counted as 86 rather than the correct mark mark of 68. Calculate the correct average mark for these six students.
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Question 295073: ratio of the length to width of a rectangle is 3:2.
The perimeter is 70 cm.
Whar are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 295078: one of the angles of a right triangle is 2 more than 3 times the other.
What is the measure of each angle?
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Question 295100: The lenght of a rectangel is 5 inches greather than the width. The sum of the length and width is 41 inches. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 295090: a mosquito bit 104 humans in four days. each day she bit 10 more than on the previous day. How many did she bite each day?
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Question 295140: The base of a triangle is 2x+2 m and the area is 2x^2-x-3 m. How much longer is the base than the height?
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Question 295309: The diameter of a table tennis ball is 4 centimeters. How many square centimeters of plastic are needed to make a table tennis ball?
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Question 295463: The width of a rectangle is 5 inches less than its length and the area is 36 square inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 295544: find the length and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 1280 inches and the length is 90 inches more than the width
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Question 295665: and angle is 5 less that twice its compliment
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Question 295546: find the length and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 1280 inches and the length is 90 inches more than the width
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Question 295688: A cylindrical drum has a diameter of 3 yards and a volume of 65 cubic yards. What is the height of the drum? (Hint: Use V = пr2h)

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Question 295783: Every concession stand must have a rectangular floor space and a perimeter of 88 meters. Tony want the greatest area possible.
Write an equation for the area in terms of the length.
What is the maximum area for the rectangular floor space?
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Question 296059: A foot ladder cast a shadow of 5 feet at the same time that a tree's shadow is 25 feet. How tall is the tree?
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Question 296126: Samuel left the house at noon heading to David's store, 60 miles away. David left his store at 2 pm, heading to Samuel's house and traveling at twice Samuel's speed. The two men met at 3 p.m. How fast was David traveling?
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Question 296514: A grid shows the position of a subway stop at your house. The subway stop is located at (-5, 2) and your house is located (-9,9). What is the distance, to the nearest unit, between your house and the subway stop?
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Question 296766:
b. 100 square feet

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Question 296980: a rectangular rose garden measures 24 meters in length and 10 meters in width and a diagonal path through the garden divides it into two equal sections, what is the length of the path?
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Question 297365: Suppose that the length of a certain rectangle is three times its width. If the length is decreased by 4 inches and the width increased by 1 inch, the newly formed rectangle has an area of 40 square inches. Find the length and width of the original rectangle.
x+y*3 x-4 y+1 = 40 ?
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Question 297595: What the three angles of a triangle if the sum and difference of two angles are 100 degree and 20 degree, respectively
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Question 297836: what is the area of a pentagon with sides of 7cm? this has to be to the nearest tenth.
answer it can be
A.67.4cm
B.6.9cm
C.84.3cm
d.168.6cm
this has to be to the nearest tenth.

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Question 297891: the width of a picture frame is 20 inches. the ratio of the width to the length is 5/6. what is the lenght of the frame? Please help me show work.

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Question 297894: Find the dimensions of the rectangle meeting the specified conditions. The perimeter is 36 meters and the length is 4 meters more than the width.
36= l(w+4)
how would i get actual numbers out of this???
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Question 297935: What is the vertex of angle CRT
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Question 298173: the base of a triangle is one less than five times the height of the triangle. the area of the triangle is 21 cm^(2). find the height and the length of the base of the triangle. (note: area of traingle equals one-half length of base times height.)
B=5h-1
A=21cm^2
A=1/2(b * h)
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Question 298182: The base of a triangle is 7 cm longer than its altitude. The area of the triangle is
30 cm2. Find the length of the altitude.
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Question 298474: If the length and width of a rectangle are each increased by ten percent, then the perimeter of the rectangle is increased by what percent?
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Question 298475: The diagonals of a rhombus are 6 cm and 8 cm. What is the perimeter of the rhombus?
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Question 298562: how do you find the least perimeter for this area
a=30cm2 using whole numbers
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Question 298888: how do you solve if the second angle in a triangle is one third as large as the first angle and the third angle is two thirds as large as the first angle?
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Question 298880: the area of a rectangke is 525cm^2. find the dimensions of a rectangle if the ratio of the length to the width is 7:3
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Question 298950: A rectangle is 5 times as long as it is wide. If the area is 125 square feet, find its perimeter
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Question 299076: A board is 24 feet long and is cut into two pieces. If one piece is twice the length of the other, find the length of both pieces.
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Question 299067: A board is 24 ft. long and is cut into two pieces. If one piece is the length of the other, find the length of both pieces.
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Question 299065: The perimeter of a triangle is 240 mm. If the longest side of the triangle is seven times the length of the smallest side and the other side is is four times the length of the smallest side, find the lengths for all three sides.
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Question 299380: A scale on a map 1 inch= 15 miles. if it is 60 miles from indiana state line to Toledo,Ohio, how many inches is this on a map?
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