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Question 359491: one side of a rectangle is three feet more than half as long as the other side and the perimeter is 21 feet what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 359530: The Length of a rectangle is twice its width. A second rectangle which is 8cm larger and 3 cm narrower than the first rectangle, has a perimeter of 154 cm. Make a sketch (you don't have to ) of the rectangles expressing all dimensional terms of w. Then find the dimensions of each rectangle.
Dolciani P.123 # 8
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Question 359517: The length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its width. If the length is increased by 5 inches, the rectangle would be 3 times as long as it is wide. Find the demensions of the rectangle.
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Question 359575: a rectangular garden has an 8ft walkway around it. How many more feet is the outer perimeter of the walkway than the perimeter of the garden ?

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Question 359674: a rectangular computer screen measures 17 inch diagonally. the widht is 15 inch. whats the height
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Question 359719: The area of a square is increased by 30%. If the new area is 32.5 meters find the perimeter of the orginal square.
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Question 359734: The length of a rectangle is 8 inches more than its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 24 inches. What are the width and length of the rectangle?
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Question 359812: the swimming pool is 12 feet by 20 feet there is a 3 foot wide cement sidewalk all around the pool. what is the outside perimeter of the sidewalk? I think it's 88 feet? I think I hit the delete button and didn't what to so can some one help out thanks
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Question 359799: the swimming pool is 12 feet by 20 feet there is a 3 foot wide cement sidewalk all around the pool. what is the outside perimeter of the sidewalk? I think it's 88 feet?
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Question 359821: a shipping clerk processes 8 orders every 22 minutes. how many minutes it takes to process 14
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Question 360035: 70 percent of students are male. there are 24 female in a class how many men are in a class
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Question 360061: a car avrages 28.7 miles per gallon. how many gallons will it use on a trip 501.5 mmiles. round to the nearest tenth
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Question 360061: a car avrages 28.7 miles per gallon. how many gallons will it use on a trip 501.5 mmiles. round to the nearest tenth
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Question 360258: Determine the contrapositive of the conditional statement: If the lengths of the sides of a rectangle are 6 inches and 4 inches, then the area is 24 square inches.
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Question 360297: A diagonal of a square parking lot is 70 meters. Find, to the nearest meter, the length of a side of the lot.
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Question 360347: A right triangle has an acute angle of 30◦ and a hypotenuse of 1 unit long. Find the lengths of the two other sides.
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Question 360503: The area of a rectangle is 20 sq ft.
a) Express the length of the rectangle as a function of its width.
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Question 360585: How do you solve:
What is the measure of an angle if it's supplement measures 66 degrees less than 4 times it's complement?
Thank you!
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Question 360600: how do you solve:
A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 9 ft. Find the length of the ladder if the length is 3 ft more than its distance from the wall.
Thank you!
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Question 360780: A tent's entrance is in the shape of an isosceles triangle in which segment RT is congruent to segment RS. The length of segment TS is 1.2 times the length of a side. The perimeter of the entrance is 14 feet. Find each side length.
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Question 360823: the harris and keller families decide to go to the movies together. the harris family lives 3 km west and 2 km north of the movie theater. the keller family lives 4 km east 3 km south of the movie theater. how far apart do the families live?
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Question 361012: The lenth of a rug is 6ft more than its width. the area is 40sq ft. Find the dimensions of the rug.

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Question 361066: The length of a rectangle is 4 more than its width. The area is 60 sq. yards. Find the dimensions.
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Question 361068: The length of a rectangle is 2 less than 3 times the width. Find the dimensions if the area is 65 square meters
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Question 361309: I am trying to find the length and width of a book. The book is 5cm longer than it is wide and the width is 84cm^2.
I was thinking about using the A=BH, but I'm not sure if it's the correct method.
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Question 361500: A rectangle is six times as long as it is wide. If the area is 294 ft squared, what is length and width of the table?
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Question 361936: of what the answer to.
the sides of a triangle have these lengths :2x+3,4x+1x+7 the perimeter is 25in. find the length of each side using the formula p=a+b+c
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Question 362410: Three angles of isosceles triangle are 70◦, 70◦, and 40◦. The base of the triangle is a diameter of a circle. Find the measure of the minor arc of the circle that the two equal sides intercept

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Question 362669: A restaurant has a dining room that is 62 ft by 55 ft. What is the area of the dining room? What is the perimeter of the dining room?
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Question 362670: The shape formed by placing a semicircle of radius 3ft. on top of a rectangle of length 12ft. How much glass would be needed for this window? If the window is molding, how much would be needed?
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Question 362754: how many centimeters are in 35 inches?
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Question 362795: The sum of three numbers is 94. whats the ansa!!
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Question 362692: a family room measures 18 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 4 inches. find the approximate area in square feet
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Question 362822: a ladder is resting against a wall. the top of the ladder crashes and kills someone at 15 ft, what is its acceleration?
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Question 362826: a ladder is resting against a wall. the top of the ladder touches the wall and crashes. whats the distance.
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Question 362828: a ladder is resting against a wall. the top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 15 ft and finally crashes. what is the distance of the ladder from top to bottom?

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Question 362904: QUESTION
THERE IS A BUILDING WITH A 12FT HIGH WINDOW. YOU WANT TO USE A LADDER TO GO UP TO THE WINDOW, YOU DECIDE TO KEEP THE LADDER 5FT AWAY FROM THE BUILDING TO HAVE A GOOD SLANT. HOW LONG SHOULD THE LADDER BE?
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Question 362467: If a 24 ft by 10 ft rectangle were a 8 ft platform, what is the volume of the rectangular prism in cubic feet?
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Question 362912: TIM IS STANDING ACROSS A RIVER FROM MARY. THEY DISCOVER THAT IF THEY STAND EXACTLY OPPOSITE EACH OTHER THEY CAN EACH HOLD ONE END OF A 5 M ROPE. HOW LONG WOULD THE ROPE HAVE TO BE TO REACH IF TIM MOVED 8 M DOWNSTREAM?
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Question 362979: I need help with the follow Geometry word problem.
The measure of the 1st angle is 7 times more than one third of the measure of the second angle squared. If the angles are supplementary find the measure of each angle.
My attempt: 7x + 1/3x^2 = 180
Thank you for your help.
Peter
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Question 362906: QUESTION
ON A BASEBALL DIAMOND THE BASES ARE 90 FEET APART. WHAT IS THE DISTANCE FROM HOME PLATE TO SECOND BASE IN A STRAIGHT LINE?
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Question 362910: QUESTION
TONY HAS GOT HIS KITE STUCK AT THE TOP OF A VERY TALL TREE. HE KNOWS THE STRING ON HIS KITE IS 20 M LONG. WHEN HE PULLS THE STRING TIGHT AND HOLDS THE VERY END ON THE GROUND IT TOUCHES 17 M FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE TREE. IF THE GROUND IS FLAT, HOW TALL IS THE TREE?
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Question 363025: length of each equal side of a triangle is 4m less from the third side.If the perimeter of a triangle is 55m find the dimensions of a triangle.
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Question 363051: Hello I need help on two problems. Thanks
An ice cube that measures 5 centimeters on each side conntains how many cubic centimeters of ice? Include correct units with the solution.
Find the perimeter and area of a right triangle if one leg measures 16ft. anfd the other leg measures 30ft. please show work and include units with the solution. Thanks

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