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Question 1876: Hi there, my question is this:
A square boxing ring is 20ftx20ftx20ftx20ft, how far apart are the fighters when they are in oppoaite corners?
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Question 7328: The ____ and the ____ are devices used to make linear measures.
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Question 8853: you are given rectangle abcd. how many distinct circles in the same plane of the rectangle have a diameter both of whose endpoints are vertices abcd? what is the sum of the diameters of all of the circles? be sure to answer both questions.
A-----------------------------D

5 cm.

B-----------------------------C
12 cm.
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Question 9874: What is 92cm =_______mm
What is 61cm=_______mm
What is 51cm=_______mm
And What is 735m=_______mm
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Question 14189: What is 4x+3=15-2x? and i need an explanation on how to do it.
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Question 16749: what is the distance between
y=1/2x,y=1/2x+5
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Question 23069: If edging cost $2.32 per 12-inch stone, and you want a double layer of edging around your flower bed that is 6 yards by 1 yard. How much will edging you flower bed cost?
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Question 23191: A rectangular solid has a base with length 5 cm and width 8 cm. If the volume of the solid is 160 cm3, find the height of the solid. [Hint: The volume of a rectangular solid is given by V = LWH.]
I am confused about how to do geometry. Please help me.
Thanks
Sherri
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Question 23351: Two friends are swimming laps back and forth across the length of a pool. They swim with constant speeds and essentially instantaneous turns at the ends of the pool. If at the beginning they leave from opposite ends of the pool and meet for the first time 21 meters from one end and continue on their ways to their own ends of the pool, trun around and meet the second tome 8 meters from the opppsite end (from which they first met), how long is the pool?
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Question 23808: 170 is how meny feet and inches?
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Question 26516: How much water can be held by a cylindrical tank with a radius of 12 feet and a height of 30 feet?
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Question 26513: Store space in a shopping mall is often rented by the square foot. What is the area of a rectangular jewelry store that is 12 feet wide and 18 feet long?
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Question 26514: The area of a gymnasium floor is 264 square yards. The floor is 11 yards wide. How long is the floor?
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Question 26515: What is the area of a square television screen with 16-inch sides?
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Question 26733: A 6 metre ladder is leaning against a wall. The angle formed by the ladder and the wall is 25 degrees.
a)How far is the base of the ladder reach?
b)How far up the wall does the ladder reach?
c)If the wall is 7 metres high, will a person 2 metres tall standing on the top of the ladder be able to see over the wall? Explain
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Question 28790: If two flagpoles are 10m and 70m tall and are 100m apart, find the height of the point where a line from the top of the first to the bottom of the second intersects a line from the bottom of the first to the top of the second.
-Ok i tried setting up the problem in proportions, & drawing it but i have no idea what to do, it is a very confusing question.
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Question 29163: what is the meaning of metric system? and give an example for my question and give an answer ok you understand my question to you?
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Question 30634: If edging cost $2.32 per 12-inch stone, and you want a double layer of edging around your flower bed that is 6 yards by 1 yard. How much will edging you flower bed cost?
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Question 29955: how to convert 300 mm to m
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Question 23809: 1.70 equals to,into how many feet and inches?
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Question 33061: 2) A painter leans a ladder against one wall of a house. The ladder is 24 ft long. The base of the ladder is 18 ft from the house. How high is the wall?

A) 126 ft

B) 21 ft

C) 7.938 ft

D) 15.875 ft
Please let me know how you solved this so I can help myself.
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Question 33001: i am having a major examine and trying to get ready for it but i am having some problems solveing the following type of problems can you show me
910cg = ? dag
7kg 25 g =? kg
5.311=?kl
2.4 sq m = ? sq cm

i appreciate your help very much
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Question 34510: A triangle with sides of 5, 12 and 13 has both an inscribed and a circumscribed circle. What is the distance between the centers of those circles.
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Question 34968: I hate word problems. I have a tough time trying to comprehend them and extract a formula. Anyway-here's the problem: Earthquakes generate two circular waves, p-waves and s-waves, that travel outwards The p-waves travel faster, but the s-waves do the most damage. Suppose the p-waves have a velocity of 3.6 miles per second and s-waves have a velocity of 1.8 miles per second. How long after the earthquake will p-waves and s-waves be 80 miles apart?
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Question 35483: Hi, not sure if this is appropriate topic, anyway here goes
for the point A (3,-1) and the line with equation x-y=1, find:
a The equation of the perpendicular to the line through A
b The foot of the perpendicular from A to the line
c The distance of A from the line
Hope someone can help, thank you
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Question 35572: thanks for previous solution. Can someone pls have a look at the following problems for me. 'Hope I'm in the right area. 'Am using a HP graphics calculator.
1. (1,-5) is one end of the diameter of a circle and the tangent through the point at the other end of the diameter has equation x+2y=11
Find:
a. the equation of the diameter
b. the coordinates of the other end of the diameter
c. the coordinates of the centre of the circle

2. A base for jet fighters is located at F(4,1) The fighters have an operational range of 700kms. An enemy bomber B at (0,-8) is heading for a target T at (16,0).
Given that 1 grid unit represents 100kms find:
a. the equation of the line representing the bomber's flight path from B to T
b. the equation of the boundary of the region which represents the range of the fighters
c. the grid references of the points where the fighters can firstly & finally intercept the bomber

Thank you
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Question 36328:

(1) the area of a rectangle is 20 feet. write the perimeter of this rectangle as a function of the length of one of its sides ,x.

(2) what is the maximum value of y in the function y=-x^2-5x-1
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Question 36075: Show that the points(5,7), (3,9) and (6,8) are the vertices of a right triangle.
can use distance formula or slope.
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Question 36175: given: points N (-1,-5), O( 0,0),P (3,2) AND Q(8,1)SHOW NPQT IS AN ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID
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Question 36177: given: points N (-1,-5), P( 0,0),Q (3,2) AND T(8,1)SHOW NPQT IS AN ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID
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Question 37332: how can i find the cordinates of foot of the perpendicular in co-ordinate geometry?
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Question 37299: 8.38 x 107 feet - 5.84 x 107 feet
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Question 38264: i wasn't sure where to go with this one but here it is: Point A is equidistant from P and Q. The midpoint, M, of line PQ is 12 units form A and 7 1/2 units from the midpoint of line AQ. Find the length of line PQ. (you have to draw your own picture, which im not very good at, i keep getting weird square roots for PQ, please help!)
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Question 38636: The sound of thunder travels away from a lightning flash at 331m/s. Joe sees a
lightning flash, & then hears the thunder 12 seconds later. Howfar away is Joe from the lightning flash?
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Question 38695: I am needing a step-by-step process on how to convert kilometers to miles.
The problem is 4690 km to miles?
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Question 38695: I am needing a step-by-step process on how to convert kilometers to miles.
The problem is 4690 km to miles?
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Question 38695: I am needing a step-by-step process on how to convert kilometers to miles.
The problem is 4690 km to miles?
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Question 39512: A box measures 1 metre X 1 metre X 1 metre (W X D XH)
Our customer wants a box to hold twice as much as this box,
What would the new box need to measure?
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Question 39533: The quotient when 3 more than a number is divided by 3 less than that same number. Write each of the following geometric expressions using the given symbols
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Question 41307: The sides of a square measure 7 feet. How long is the diagonal?

9.9 ft
9.7 ft
11.2 ft
10.3 ft
I dont need the answer, I just would like an explanation on how to solve this.

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Question 41482: Can someone help me with this problem?
A tree casts a shadow that measures 5 m. At the same time, a meter stick casts a shadow that is 0.4 m long. How tall is the tree?
Thanks,
Lyn
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Question 41577: Please help me with this problem. Jason is planning to expan a square vegetable garden. If each side of the original garden s increased by 7m, the new total area of the garden will be 144m^2. What is the lenght of each side of the original garden? Thanks
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Question 41579: May I please have some help? A soccer field is 336yd^2. The width is 5yd longer than its length. What is the length and width of the soccer field. Thanks for your help.
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Question 41787: Can someone help me with this?
Choose the most reasonable measure.
The height of a bookshelf
(A) 12 cm
(B) 12 m
(C) 1.2 m
Thanks,
Lyn
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