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Question 925602: the distance between its endpoints (0,-6) and (0,-11)
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Question 926884: how would you find the perimeter and area of a shape with the coordinates (-3,4), (1,5), (2,1), and (-2,0)?
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Question 927594: Th length of the paper is 4 units more than the width the area of the paper is 165 sq. units. Find the length of the paper.
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Question 927664: Graph the triangle with vertics a(0,24), b(-15,0), c(24,0). A) draw the three altitudes. Determine(algebraically) where the three altitudes intersect.
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Question 927782: The line 6x-ky=4 passes through the point (3,2). Find the value of k.
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Question 927826: Find the distance between the two parallel lines 2x-3y=4 and 2x-3y=-4
I was told there was a formula for this, but I cannot seem to find it.
Thank you
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Question 928287: I need help finding the distance for this problem.
Find the distance between parallel lines whose equations are y = -x + 2 and y = -x + 8.
The answer choices are:
A) 3 √ 2
B) 2 √ 17
C) 10
D) 2 √ 29
(the √ is a square root bracket)
Thanks for your help in advance!
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Question 928683: What is the length of line segment QA with endpoints Q (-8,6) and A(-5,3)
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Question 929135: Is 32 feet bigger, equal to,or smaller than 11 yards?
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Question 929166: What is the area of a square window that is 31/2 feet on each side?
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Question 930541: a jet plane travelling at 500 mph over takes a propeller plane travelling at 200 mph that had a 2-hour head start.how far the starting point are the planes?
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Question 930695: A lifeguard sitting on a beach at point A sees a swimmer in distress at point B.
The lifeguard can run at a rate of 3 meters per second and can swim at a rate
of 1.5 meters per second. To minimize the amount of time it takes to reach the
swimmer, how far along the beach should the lifeguard run before entering the
water?
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Question 931202: Find the length of the diameter of a circle that has a center at Point T (3, 1) and passes through the point (1, -6).

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Question 931562: Determine the farthest distance from the point (3,7) to the circle x2+y2+4x-6y-12=0
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Question 932778: Write the equation that is parallel to x = -4 and passes through (-5,6)
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Question 933448: What is the length of the diagonal of a rectangular box with a length of 5cm, width of 4cm, and height of 2cm?
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Question 933540: What is the length of each side if a square has the same perimeter as a equilateral triangle

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Question 933827: An eastbound train leaves Vancouver for Toronto, a distance of about 4370 km, travelling at about 90km/h. At the same time a west bound train leaves Toronto to Vancouver travelling at about 70 km/h. How far from Toronto are the trains when they pass each other? For how long have they been travelling when this happens?
How much pure water bust be mixed with 9 pints of 50% developer to produce a mixture that is 28% developer?
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Question 934931: The scale on a map is 10 000:1. What distance does a 6 cm line represent?
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Question 935069: One observer at point A estimates the angle of elevation to the basket of a hot air balloon to be 55�, while another observer 100 yards away at point B estimates the angle of elevation to be 36�. How high off the ground is the basket of the hot air balloon? Round to the nearest whole number.
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Question 935399: The model distance = 3.30+0.235*(speed) can be used to predict the stopping distance (in feet) for a car traveling at a specific speed (in mph). According to this model, about how much distance will a car going 65 mph need to stop?
A) 27.0 feet
B)4.3 feet
C) 729.0 feet
D)18.6 feet
E)345.0 feet
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Question 933432: QR has endpoints at Q(10, 1) and R(2, 5). Find the midpoint M of QR.

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Question 935649: ABC is a straight line AC:BC=8:5 A(-2,1) B(12,9) find the co ordinate of B
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Question 935929: Please help me with this question.
A tangent to the parabola x^2 = 16y is perpendicular to the line x - 2y - 3 = 0 .find the equation of this tangent and the coordinate of the point of conduct
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Question 936165: The line segment joining points A(4,6) and B(-1,-2) is extended through A by three times its original length. Find the coordinates of the new endpoint.

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Question 936213: the midpoint of cm is (5 -11). one endpoint is s(3 5). what are the coordinates of endpoint m
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Question 936213: the midpoint of cm is (5 -11). one endpoint is s(3 5). what are the coordinates of endpoint m
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Question 936258: What is the equation of the line which: a) passes through the point (2,-3) and is parallel to y=2; and b) passes through the point (-5,2), and is parallel to the line x=1.
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Question 936261: M is the midpoint of line segment AB. The coordinates of M are (1, 3) and the coordinates of A are (5, -3). Find the coordinates of B.
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Question 937291: can you pour the water from a full 2 liter bottle into a 2 quart pitcher without spilling anything?
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Question 937463: One observer estimates the angle of elevation to the basket of a hot air balloon to be 55�, while another observer 100 yards away estimates the angle of elevation to be 36�. How high off the ground is the basket of the hot air balloon? Round to the nearest whole number.
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Question 937597: A plane takes off from a runway and climbs at at angle of elevation of 15 degrees.
a. After the plane has traveled one mile (5280 feet) how far has the plane traveled horizontally? Round answer to nearest foot.
b.After the plane has traveled one mile (5280 feet) how far has the plane traveled vertically? Round your answer to the nearest foot.
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Question 937595: Derrick is creating a model of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is 301 meter tall and has a base of width 100 meters. His model is will have a base of 10 cm. What will be the height of the model?
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Question 937945: Find the length of the line segment joining the points R(-2, 7) and T(6, 1).
RT =
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Question 938127: An image point has coordinates B'(7, -4). Find the coordinates of its pre-image if the translation used was (x + 4, y + 5)
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Question 938101: Two vertices of an equilateral triangle are (3,4)and (-2,3) the third vertex can be
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Question 938101: Two vertices of an equilateral triangle are (3,4)and (-2,3) the third vertex can be
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Question 938100: Two vertices of an equilateral triangle are (3,4)and (-2,3) the third vertex can be
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Question 938230: A football field is 100 yards long and has a distance around of 308 yards. How wide is it?
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Question 938520: M is the mid point of
LN .
If MN = x + 1 and LN = 3x + 1, what is LN?

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Question 938786: a triangle XYZ has vertices X (1,1), y(3,1) and Z(2,4). Show that the triangle is an equilateral triangle
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Question 939191: 17 kilometers. The field has an area of 578 square kilometers.
What is the length of the field?
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