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Question 1093080: The perimeter of a regular pentagon is 100 inches.Find the length of each side.
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Question 1093508: show that the points (-3,1),(3,-1),(1,3) are the vertices of an isosceles triangle. find its area?
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Question 1093632: Cooper drew a scale drawing of a swimming pool. The scale he used was 1 centimeter = 8 meters. The pool is 3 centimeters in the drawing. How wide is the actual pool?

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Question 1093886: A man built a walk of uniform width around a rectangular pool. If the area of the walk is 273 square feet and the dimensions of the pool are 19 feet by 13 feet, how wide is the walk?

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Question 1094362: how to find the distance between each parallel lines with given equations y=8 y=-3

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Question 1094393: How do you find the volume of a right cone when you don't know the height or slant height and the radius is 10. The surface area is 325pie
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Question 1094588: Find the equation of a straight line that is perpendicular to 5x�y=1 and is such that the area of the triangle formed by the x- and y-axes is equal to 5.
Hint - there are two equations.
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Question 1094729: What is the measure of AC if B is the midpoint of AC.
AC = 3a+1
BC = 2a-1
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Question 1094596: What is the coordinate of point K
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Question 1094595: What is the coordinate of point K
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Question 1094870: Two cities are 73.5km apart. Vehicle A leaves one city at the same time vehicle B leaves the other. Find the speed of vehicle A if it travels 6.8 km/h faster than vehicle B and if they pass in 17.3 minutes.
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Question 1095333: A train travelled 720km in 9hours. Find
(A)how far would travel in 11hours
(B)how long it would take to go 1120km
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Question 1095334: Change the following decimals to percentages
(A)0.02 (b)0.33 (c)0.9 (d)0.78 (e)0.025
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Question 1095350: Can you help me find the distance between y=3x+10 and y=3x-20
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Question 1095350: Can you help me find the distance between y=3x+10 and y=3x-20
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Question 1095367: Can you help find the distance between y=3x+6 and y=3x
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Question 1095616: Find each measure using the given measures of Triangle KLM. Round measures to the nearest tenth.
If angle L=47.1, K=59.6, and L=52.2, find angle K.
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Question 1095728: The interiors of all the unit squares of a 10 by 10 board are to be painted. Any two squares that have a side in common will be painted with a different colour of paint. What is the least number of colours that will be needed?
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Question 1095820: A train leaves Little Rock and travels north at 85 kph. Another train leaves at the same time and travels south at 85 kph. How long will it take before they are 315 km apart?
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Question 1095822: Joey and Mark go on vacation and travel in opposite directions. Joey leaves the house at 8 AM and averages 35 mph. Mark leaves at 9 AM and averages 40 mph. A what time will they be 225 miles apart?
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Question 1096084: What is the length of segment RT?
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Question 1096215: Pulley wheels having diameters of 84mm and 220mm are situated with their centres 645mm apart. Find the length of the connecting belt between S and T (the points where the belt contact the wheels).
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Question 1096266: OK well my question is how do I find number
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Question 1096286: The Washington Monument in Washington D.C., casts a shadow that is 142 ft, 5 in long. At the same time, a person who is 156 cm tall casts a shadow that is 40 cm long. What is the height of the Washington Monument to the nearest foot?
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Question 1097279: A piece of tin is in the form of a rectangle whose area is 216 square inches. A square of side 2 inches cut from each corner, and an open box is made by turning up the ends and sides. If the volume of the box is 224 cubic inches, what is the length of the piece of tin?
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Question 1097459: A six by eight grid is constructed with 48 small squares in a rectangle, as illustrated. If the diagonal of one of the small squares is 6cm, what is the length of diagonal AC?
A ___8___D
|.................|
|.................|6
|.................|
B------------C (Not to scale)
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Question 1097840: s = 4t^2+20t find distance in first T seconds
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Question 1097984: calculate the distance between each of the pairs of points on the real line using the distance formula a) (-2.5,5.7), b) (-7.4,-1.5), c) (2.4,9.5). Also place the points a real line number for each pair.
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Question 1097890: Find the distance between the given two lines
and
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Question 1098180: What is the length of the edge of a cube if after a slice 1cm thick is cut from one side, the volume remaining 294 cubic cm?
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Question 1099478: The average depth of one sea is three times the depth of a second sea. The difference between the average depths is 1876 m. What is the average depth of the first and second sea?
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Question 1099692: A rubber ball is dropped from a height of nine meters rebounds one-third of the distance of the previous falls. How far does it travel before coming to rest?
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Question 1100017: A vertex of a regular n-gon, the ratio of the interior angle to the exterior angle is 5:1. Find the value of n.
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Question 1100018: The length of the diagonal of a rectangle is shorter than the semi-perimeter by 3/4 length of the shorter side. If the dimensions of all sides are integers, find the minimum length of the longer side.
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Question 1100275: Liam ran 8 km ,swam 500metres and cycled 4.2 km .how many km did he cover?
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Question 1101106: A girl walks 80mfrom a point p on a bearing of 040�to a point Q.she then walks 30m on a bearing of 140� to a point R.what is the bearing of R from P
How far is R from P
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Question 1101104: Find the area of the quadrilateral having points (-3,4),(-2,-1),(4,4) and (0,5) as vertices
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Question 1101640: Show that the point (2,-3), (5,0) (2,3), and (-1,0) are the vertices of a triangle and find its perimeter
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Question 1102087: 1. Cheryl is planning a garden that will be 8x7 feet. She wants it to be raised by 6 inches. How many cubic feet of topsoil will she need to add?
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