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Question 88136:
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Question 88136:
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Question 88135: =22/the circumference of a circle is 132 yds find the radius using pie 7
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Question 88135: =22/the circumference of a circle is 132 yds find the radius using pie 7
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Question 88134:
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Question 88134:
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Question 88133: find the length of the side of a square with the perimeter of 60 cm
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Question 88148:
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Question 88170: two angles of a triangle have equal measures but the third angles measure is 36 degrees less than the sum of the other two . find the measure of each angle of the triangle
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Question 88176: two angles are complementary one contains 30 degrees more than the other . find both angles
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Question 88172: an angle is 14 degrees more than the measure of its complement. find the number of degrees in each angle
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Question 88171: an angle is 25 degrees less than the measure of its complement. what is the measure of the smaller angle?
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Question 88242: The length of a rectangle is three times the width. If the length is increased by 4 feet and the width is decreased by 1 foot, the area will be increased by 24 square feet. What are the dimensions of the original rectangle?
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Question 88241: In a right triangle, the hypotenuse is 1 foot more than twice the shortest side. The other side is 1 foot less than twice the shortest side. What is the length of the shortest side?
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Question 88174: if a quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle its opposite angles will be supplementary. find the measure of angle A if the measure of angle C=40 degrees
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Question 88464: the total measure of two sides of a triangle is less than 90.the third angle is more than the sum of the measures of first two angles.what will be the measure of each angle.
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Question 88478: 1. The sum of the complement and supplement of an acute angle exceeds 20 less than thrice its compliment by 60. Find the measure of the acute angle.
2. The measures of two angles are in the ratio of 4:5. The larger of the angles is 60 less than twice the smaller angle. Find the measure of each angle. Are they complementary or supplementary?
3. What is the measure of an angle if twice the measure of its supplement is 30 more than 5 times the measure of its complement.
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Question 88592: hi!
can you pls. solve this problem..
a garden plot contain 200 sq. ft. if its length is to be twice its width, what should its dimensions be?
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Question 88854: Could you please assist with the following problem? A stone is projected vertically upward from a platform that is 20 ft high at a rate of 160 ft per second. When will the stone reach its maximum height? What will be the maximum height?
Thank you very much for any help you can provide.
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Question 88849: Could you please help me with the following problem? A 15 foot ladder is leaning against a building. The bottom of the ladder is distance d from the building and the top of the ladder is d + 3 ft up the building. Find these lengths.
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Question 88975: Suppose that the width of a rectangle is 5 inches shorter than the length and that the perimeter of the rectangle is 50.
Part A: Setup an equationfor the perimeter involving only L, the length of the rectangle.
Part B: Solve this equation algebraically to find the length of the rectangle. Find the width as well.
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Question 89225:
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Question 89757: a lad carries a load of 12.5 kilograms.he finds it heavy so he removes a weight of 3.86 kilograms.what is the remaining load?
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Question 89945: Could you please help me with this problem?:The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than its width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dimensions (length and the width) of the rectangle? Thank you.
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Question 89928: The area of a rectangle of length X is given by 3x^2 + 5x. Find the width of the rectangle.

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Question 89920: Geometry. The length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34 inches, find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 90166: The length of a rectangle is 3 times as much as the width. the width is given as 6. find the length and the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 90234: What is the perimeter and the area of a room:if the room is 15 feet long & long 12 feet wide?
Any help with this problem,would be greatly appreciated:)
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Question 90479: The shorter parallel side of a trapezoid is equal to its height and the longer side is 3/2 times as long. If the area is 80, find the lengh of the shorter side.
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Question 90916: A course for cross-country skiing is regulated so that the slpoe of any hill cannot be greater than 0.33. Suppose a hill rises 60 meters over a horizontal distance of 250 meters. Does the hill meet the requirement? Show all work.
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Question 90920: A tinsmith has a rectangular piece of tin with a 3-inch square cut from each corner so that the sides can be folded uo to form a box. She has described the box so that it is twice as long as it is wide. What are the dimensions of the box if it has a volume of 1350 cubic inches?
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Question 90919: What is the maximum number of whole bricks in a wall 25 inches wide and 7 inches high if each brick is 8 inches wide by 2 inches high and there is 1/2 inch of mortar between each brick?
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Question 91021: What is the equation of line L?
L has y-intercept (0,-3) and is parallel to the line with equation y=2/3x + 1.
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Question 90978: A standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper is rolled along it's short side to form a cylinder. A second sheet of standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper is rolled along it's longer side to form a second cylinder. There is no overlap. Will the taller cylinder have the same volume, greater volume, or less volume than that of the short cylinder?
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Question 91039: A ribbon has been placed around the earth's equator. Ten feet has been added to the original ribbon and the new ribbon has been uniformly placed around the equator.
Note: the circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles and 1 mile= 5,280 feet

What would be the largest thing you would be able to slide between the original ribbon and the new ribbon: a sheet of paper, your finger, a golf ball, a baseball, or a basketball?
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Question 91215: Take a 9in x 12in piece of construction paper and make an open box with no lid that will maxamize volume. You may cut and tape the construction paper as many times as needed. The box will compare among the classes boxes and I want the box that holds the most rice krispies. Include an information sheet that explains why you chose the dimentions.
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Question 91293: The volume of a cube is given by V = s^3, where s is the length of a side. Find the length of a side of a cube if the volume is 800 cm^3. Round the answer to three decimal places
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Question 91709: If Steven can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them working together to mix the 20 drinks?
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Question 92381: the total area of six faces of a cube is 240 cm^2 how long to the nearest 10th is one egde
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Question 93071: The length of a rectangle exceeds its width by 2 feet. If each dimension was increased by 3ft., the area would increased by 51 square feet.. Find the original dimensions.
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Question 93541: please help me with this question:
The area of a rectange is 338 mm squared. the height is thirteen less than three times teh base. What is the perimeter?
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Question 93919: I am having trouble with this word problem. Pleas, can someone help me?
Length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its with. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34 inches, find the dimension of the rectangle.
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