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Question 482162: A boy needs a piece of plywood measuring 0.75 meters long and 0.55 meter wide. Find the perimeter in centimeters.
An aquarium is 70cm long, 35cm wide and 40cm deep. How many cubic centimeters of water does it contain when it is 3/4 full?
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Question 482422: what is a rectangle that has a perimeter between 20 and 100 inches and its perimeter is divisible by 8 and its lenght is more than twice its width?
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Question 482702: A conveyor belt can transport 2 boxes at any one time with a total volume of 20 m3. If the boxes are of equal volume and the area of the base of each box is 8 m2, Calculate the height of the boxes
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Question 482863: If the side of a square is increased by 10%, its area increased by k%. Find the value of k
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Question 482883: Evaluate: 7C5
thank you.
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Question 482883: Evaluate: 7C5
thank you.
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Question 482903: Show the conjecture is false by finding a counterexample. The quotient of two whole numbers is a whole number
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Question 482925: find the length of the word mathematics to the nearest tenth of a centimeter
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Question 482935: Points A, B, C, D, and E are coplanar and no three are collinear. In how many way can the plane be named using only these points?
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Question 483060: The perimeter of a rectangle is 52. The length is 6 times greater than the width. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
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Question 483060: The perimeter of a rectangle is 52. The length is 6 times greater than the width. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
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Question 483171: The world's first billion dollar home is a 27 story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai, India. It is 550ft high with 400,000 square feet living space. What would be the cost of carpenting the entire living space if the cost of the carpet were $36 per square yard?
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Question 483547: The cost of a high-school ring is $145 for the large size and $115 for the regular. The total receipts from the sale of 120 rings was $15,060. How many rings were sold?
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Question 483709: Find the supplementary angle of 84°
6°
16°
84°
96
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Question 483796: The perimeter of a rectangle is 188 inches. The length exceeds the width by 90 inches. find the length and width.
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Question 483846: What is the area of a square whose 1 side is 9.2 units?
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Question 484099: the measure of the supplement of an angle is 20 more than three times the measure of the original apple. find the messures of the angles.
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Question 484246: a triangle made from rope.side of triangle is 3,4,5cm.wats the area of square made by same rope?

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Question 484395: Think I have the formula wrong cause my answer doesn't seem to make sense:
In a right triangle, find the length of the side not given. A=5, c=13
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Question 484432: construct a truth table for ~p->(p^~q). be sure to include all intermediate steps.
Thank you ahead of time.
jb
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Question 484513: if a rectangle has its dimensions multiplied by four, what happens to its perimiter?
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Question 484512: if one dimension is doubled and a second dimension is tripled, the volume will be what time large?
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Question 484539: Describe in owrds how to find the number of border tiles for any garden length?
and
Write an expression that represents your method for finding the number of border tiles, given the garden length?
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Question 484568: Two vertical ropes have heights 6ft and 12 ft. a rope is stretched from the top of each pole to the bottom of the other. How far above the ground do the ropes cross?
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Question 484574: The perimeter of a triangle must be no more than 55 cm. One side of the triange is 18 cm. and a second side is 13cm. Find the largest possible length of the third side.
Thank you very much for the answer! :)
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Question 484586: A rectangle is 2 cm longer than it is wide. The diagonal of the rectangle is 10 cm long. Find the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 484808: Hello, i have posted this problem several times, and i cant seem to get help.
can you help me please.
construct a truth table for ~p->(p^~q)

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Question 484898: Word Problem for Perimeter - the length of a rectangle is twice the width - perimeter 36 ft
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Question 485061: Leonardo of Pisa (about 1175-1258) was born in Italy and educated in North Africa. He was one of the first Europeans to use modern numerals instead od Roman numerals. He is also known for the Fibonacci Sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,.... Find the next three items..
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Question 485068: all rectangles with a perimeter of 20 feet have the same area?
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Question 485242: The length of a rectangle is 3n+2 and its width is n-1. The perimeter of the rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width. Write an expression that represents the perimeter.
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Question 485361: What is the area of a rectangle given the dimensions. 4 ft. x 4 inches
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Question 485600: How Do U Solve 10a - 5b = 25 for B?
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Question 485543: write a conjecture about the letters you expect on a telephone key.
1 2 3
4 5 6 is already on there.
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Question 485544: which of the following is a counterexample of the conjecture below?
a. 2,2
b. 1/2,2
c. 3,10
d. 2, -1

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Question 485770: The perimeter of a semicircle is doubled when the radius is increased by one. Find the radius of the semicircle.
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Question 485890: The measures of the interior angles of a convex 9-gon form an arithmetic sequence and, measured in degrees, all are distinct integers. What is the measure of the largest possible angle if all the angles are obtuse?
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Question 485996: A circular ceiling fan rotates at 40 revolutions per minute. A housefly sits on the outer edge of the fan and travels 3600 pie feet in nine minutes. Another housefly sits halfway between the center and the edge of the same fan and travels at the same rate for 15 minutes. How many feet did the 2nd fly travel. Express your answer in terms of pie.
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Question 486176: Make a conjecture about the perimeter of a triangle when the coordinates of tis verticles are multiplied by the same positive factor
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Question 486250: What angle is created by the hands of a clock at 2:15?
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Question 486251: What angle is created by the hands of a clock at 2:15?
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Question 486511: an open box is to be constructed from a square piece of sheet metal by removing a square of side 1 foot from each corner and turning up the edges. if the box is to hold 4 cubic feet, what should be the dimensions of the sheet metal?
some how I got that the dimension of the square should be 2ft by 2ft but that doesn't sound right at all.
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Question 486417: The length of a side of an equilateral triangle is the same as the length of a rectangle and the width of the rectangle is 2 inches less than its length. if the primeter of the triangle is 4 inches less than the primeter of the rectangle, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 486570: A regular polygon has n equal sides and n equal angles. The measure a of an interior angle in degrees is given by the following equation.
a = 180(1 - 2/n)
Solve for n.
n =

How many sides does the outdoor bandstand shown below have if the performance platform is a regular polygon with interior angles measuring 120°?

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Question 486687: The crane shown below is 10 feet high and has a boom of length 127 feet. The boom can open to a maximum angle of 80.3 degrees. What is the maximum tip height, h, that the crane can reach?
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