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Question 888108: How high is a tree that casts a 26 ft shadow at the same time a 6 ft pole casts a shadow which is 13 ft.
Is it 12 ft
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Question 888501: 45 streamers are being cut at every 5 2/5 feet how much of the streamers will be left
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Question 889082: Can you help me please to answer this, i don't really get what the problem means.
A 9 cm x 12 cm rectangular piece of paper is folded once so that a pair of diagonally opposite vertices coincide. What is the length of the crease?
Thanks for helping me.
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Question 889298: A remote-control car races straight down the street at 15 feet per second. Four seconds later, a second remote-control car races straight down the same street at 25 feet per second.
On what scale is the speed of each car measured?
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Question 889646: If the measure of 1 is 165�, what must be the measure of 6
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Question 889852: Type the coordinates of the points for P,Q,R,S and T for each of the following images under the translation defined by (x,y) ---->(x-5,y+4).
a)P(0,0) b)Q(-2,1) c)R(-9,-3) d)S(6,12) e)T(h,k)
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Question 889889: a large rectangular movie screen in an imax theater has an area of 8424 square feet. find the dimensions of the screen if it is feet longer than it is wide.
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Question 890353: Use the following four coordinates to determine which one has a distance of 10 units from point C (1, 2).
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Question 890351: Point L is located at (4, −3) and M is located at (−8, 5). Find the y value of the point that lies halfway between L and M.
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Question 890350: For the line segment whose endpoints are R (1, 2) and S (6, 7), find the y value for the point located 3 over 4 the distance from R to S.
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Question 890354: Write an equation of a line parallel to y = 2 over 3x −5 in slope-intercept form that passes through the point (−6, −1).
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Question 890311: how many bricks of length 20cm will be needed to keep along the foot of a wall of 80 meters long
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Question 890644: If the terminal side of a 330 degree angle intersects a unit circle, what would the coordinates at the point of intersection?
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Question 890660: Verify the following identity by using an angle sum identity:
cos(2x) = 1 � 2(sin^2x). Hint (2x = x + x)
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Question 890660: Verify the following identity by using an angle sum identity:
cos(2x) = 1 � 2(sin^2x). Hint (2x = x + x)
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Question 890659: Solve for x: 3 + cos 2x = 7/2; only include answers on [0, 2π]
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Question 890642: Verify the following identity by using an angle sum identity: cos (2x) = 1 � 2(sin2 x). Hint (2x = x + x)
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Question 891043: A 25 ft board is cut into two pieces such that the smaller is 2/3 of the larger, find the longer length
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Question 866451: given pts (2,1) and (7,11) find the coordinates of a pt T on line PD
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Question 892451: 4x+6=7x-9
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Question 892475: Show that the points (-2,5), (-2,-1) and (4,-1) all lie on a circle whose center is at (1,2). Find the length of the radius.

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Question 892477: Find the point on the y-axis that is equidistant from (-5,-2) and (3,2)

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Question 892474: the vertices of the base of an isosceles triangle are at (1,2) and (4,-1). If the abscissa of the third vertex is 6, find its ordinate.

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Question 892470: Find the distance between the given points (-2a,b) (5a,-3b)

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Question 892705: Reduce angles in terms of π and decimal
1.) 145⁰
2.) 10⁰ 14'
3.) 56⁰ 13' 4"
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Question 892705: Reduce angles in terms of π and decimal
1.) 145⁰
2.) 10⁰ 14'
3.) 56⁰ 13' 4"
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Question 892852: Geometry question ST=x+3 and TU=4x-6 what is the value of ST and SU
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Question 892807: Write an equation of a line perpendicular to y = x + 4 in slope-intercept form that passes through the point (−2, 6).
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Question 892908: Hi just want an advice. I'm 2nd yr Civil Engineering student and I sucks at math :( I always get low grades and scores in exam, I repeated some of my subjects. I really don't wanna give up my course and I really want to be an engineer. What should I do? My family know this but my family always says that I'm stupid and useless. Sorry that I have to ask this here because I know that you guys are great in math. Thanks for your time. God Bless.
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Question 893045: A motorboat left a harbor and traveled to an island at an average rate of 10 knots. The average speed on the return trip was 10 knots. If the total trip took 6.0 hours, how far is the harbor from the island?
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Question 893547: 1whats the distance between (3,6) and (-1,3)? Is it possible for you to explain this over the internet?!?! I really need help.
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Question 893687: Slope of line 3x-4y+4=0 is.
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Question 893782: one radius of a circle has endpoints D(2,4)and E(-1,2).
a) find a possible endpoint for the diameter thaat contains this radius
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Question 893782: one radius of a circle has endpoints D(2,4)and E(-1,2).
a) find a possible endpoint for the diameter thaat contains this radius
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Question 893779: Find the lengths of the line segments joining these pairs of points. Assume that a>0.
(12a,5b) and (3a,5b)
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Question 893879: A circle placed between outer square and inner square. the length of the outer square wall is 10. How to find formula of the circle radius and length of inner square wall?
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Question 894249: Find all points on the x-axis that are 5 units from the point (4,-3)
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Question 894248: Find all points having an x-coordinate of 2 whose distance from the point (-2,-1) is 5
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Question 894219: GH has endpoint G(2,7) and midpoint M(5,1). Write two equations you can use to find the coordinates of the endpoint H. Then solve the equations and write the coordinates of H.
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Question 894727: on a number line, G=8, and H=-3. if H is the midpoint of line GI, find the coordinate of I
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Question 895087: Change 21� 20'40" to degrees
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Question 895296: If the coordinate of A is 0, AR is 5 and AT is 7, what is the midpoint of RT
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Question 895328: Find the coordinates of the other endpoint of the segment, given its midpoint and one endpoint.
midpoint(10,-1) endpoint(17,8)
The other endpoint is?
Write as ordered pair.
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Question 895318: Find the lengths of the medians of the triangle, the vertices of which are A(-5,4) , B(3,6) and C(1,-4)
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Question 895807: Find 4th vertex of a quadrilateral whose three vertices are (0,0), (2,0) and (0,3).
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