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Question 126377: Help please I can not figure this out! Thanks so much.
The perimeter of a rectangle 48m. The length is 9m more than twice the width. What is the length please? Thank you for your help.
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Question 127389: 2 centimeters and 5 centimeters
two sides of a triangle are given. Describe the possible lengths of the third side.
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Question 128233: I need to help my daughter with this problem: A pool is rectangular, 100 feet long and 35 feet wide. There is a fence 10 feet away from the pool edge that surrounds the pool. What is the length of the fence?
We drew it out, but can't figure out how to calcuate the extra length used to match the corners up. Hope you know what i"m saying.
This is problem is on a worksheet, not in her textbook.
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!!
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Question 128725: A ramp that is 20.0 feet long makes an angle of 12.5 degrees with the ground. What is the perpendicular distance from the top of the ramp to the ground?
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Question 128814: ABCD is a trapezoid with BC perpendicular to AB and BC perpendicular to CD, AB = 13, BC = 12, and CD = 8. A line segment is drawn from A to E, the midpoint of CD. a. Find the area of triangle AED. b. Find the perimeter of triangle AED.
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Question 129840: The distance between the base of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the top of the tower is 180 feet. The tower is leaning 16 feet off the perpendicular. Find the distance of the top of the tower from the ground.
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Question 129463: Help please, I am not doing something right. The width of rectangle is fixed at 25cm. What lengths will make the perimiter greater than 92cm.
The length must be greater than ? Thanks so much for your help.
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Question 129960: The coordinates for a rectangle are (2,5) (2,3) (8,3) (8,5) What is the perimeter?
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Question 130491: If you have two flag poles in front of the court house 12ft tall. The distance from the top of one pole to the base of the other is 20ft . What is the distance between the two flag pole?
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Question 132035: Segment AD has a midpoint B, BD has a midpoint C. If A has coordinates (-5, 4) and C has coordinates (10, 11), what are the coordinates of B and D?
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Question 132547: I have a 48" square piece of plywood. I want to cut it into an octogon with all 8 sides equal length. How do I calculate this?
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Question 133220: If <1=2x+6, and its adjacent angle measure is 130, what is the value of x?
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Question 133218: Jesse wants to know how tall the tree he is standing next to is. Jesse is 6 ft. tall and casts a shadow that is 9 ft. The tree is casting a shadow that is 28 ft. How tall is the tree? Round to the nearest tenth, if necessary.
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Question 134498: The Length of a rectangle is 1 ft more than its width and 1 ft less than the length of a diagonal. Find the length of the diagonal in simplest radical form.
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Question 135589: Find the midpoint of the segment with endpoints (sqrt.96, sqrt.3) and (sqrt.6, sqrt.12).
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Question 136132: The horse is tethered to a rope, at one end of a square corral(outside the corral) 10 feet on a side. The horse can graze at a distance of 18feet from the corner of the corral where the rope is tied. What is the total grazing area of the horse.
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Question 136228: I solved this problem again by trial and error but I am sure there must be a formula. Can you give it to me?
Hector paints a picture which is 10 inches longer than it is wide. When he frames it, the outside dimensions are each two inches longer. If the area of the picture with the frame is 40 square inches more than the area of the picture without its frame, what is the length of the orginal painting?
I know that length times width equals area but I just can't get the formula.
I got 4 by 14 for the dimensions.
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Question 136836: im really lost with this. A(-2;-2), B, C(4;4) and D are the vertices of a rhombus. Find the the equation of diagnol BD. the workout i cant complete im totally lost . i would appreciate it if u could heelp me with this plz
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Question 136899: Could I please have some help with the equation/answer for this homework problem. The diagonal of a rectangular box is 12 inches long. One side of the box is 8 inches long. What is the length of the other side? I have 9, don't think it's right. Thank you.
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Question 137091: The length of a rectangle is five times its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 60 m , find its area.
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Question 137091: The length of a rectangle is five times its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 60 m , find its area.
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Question 137090: cirle O centered at the orgin passes through points A(-4,3) and B(3,4). Use algebra to show that the perpendicular bisector of line AB passes through the center of the circle.
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Question 138825: Solve the problem. You have 180 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular region. What is the maximum area?
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Question 141209: a stage is set according to the folowing specifications. A chair is placed at point b and the lamp at point c. If the distance from A to B is 8ft. and the distance from A to C is 7 ft, what is the distance from the table (point B) to the lamp (point C)?

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Question 141284: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm more than 2 times its width. If the area of the rectangle os 93cm squared, what is the length and the width?
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Question 141759: Two telephone poles, 30 ft and 39 ft high, respectively, are 60 ft apart. How long is the wire from the top of one pole to the top of the other pole?
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Question 141758: Two telephone poles, 30 ft and 39 ft high, respectively, are 60 ft apart. How long is the wire from the top of one pole to the top of the other pole?
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Question 141755: A ladder 40 ft long leans against a building and reaches a ledge. The foot of the ladder is 16 ft from the building. How high is the ledge?
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Question 142574: A family decides to build a small basketball court in their backyard so their children can play at home. A concrete pad is to be poured that is � foot thick, and has dimensions of 15 feet by 15 feet. One cubic yard is equivalent to twenty-seven feet cubed. How many cubic yards of concrete must be poured? Round to the nearest cubic yard. Show all work.
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Question 142617: I think I use the Pythagorean thoerem to solve this problem, but I really have no clue... I appreciate any help you can offer..
Here's the problem:
While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat field, George observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side of the smallest field and that the side of the largest field was 3 kilometers longer than the side of the smallest field. If the total area of the 3 fields is 38 kilometers, then what was the area of each field???
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Question 143190: Please help in solving the following, I have no idea where to start.
The area of a square is 81 cm^2. If the same amount is added to one dimenstion and removed from the other, the resulting rectangle has an area of 9cm^2 less than the area of the original square. How much is added and subtracted.
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Question 143487: A rectangular field is 260 feet in perimeter.the length is 10 feet more than twice the width.what is the length?
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Question 143581: find the area of a square with diagonals??
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Question 144276: Would you be able to elp me?
5. (4 pts) Sam wishes to fertilize his lawn that is 75 feet by 207 feet. The fertilizer is on sale for $5.25 per bag. Each bag covers 575 square yards. What is the cost to fertilize his yard?
75 by 207 feet is 25 by 69 yards.
The area is 25x69 sq yards, 1,725.
1725/575 = 3 bags
3 x $5.25 = $15.75

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Question 144274: Please I need help to solve this. Thank you!

4. (4 pts) A diagonal walk through a small rectangular garden 9 meters by 12 meters can be built at $10 per linear meter. How much will the walk cost?

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Question 144791: A roll of wire 105cm long wraps exactly three times around a triangular piece of wood. If the triangle has sides with lengths 2x cm, 5x-3 and 3x+8cm, find the dimensions of the triangle.
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Question 144961: Here is one question a passenger jet took 3 hours to fly 1,800 miles in the direction of the wind. the return trip against the wind took 4 hours. what the jet's speed in still air and the speed of the wind?

speed of the jet in still air? _____
speed of the wind? _____

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Question 145447: Rectangular stage. One side of a rectangular stage is 2 meters longer than the other. If the diagonal is 10 meters , then what are the lengths of the sides?
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Question 145535: hi, i was wondering if you could help me this problem #22 pg. 11 in the College Geometry 2nd Edition, Musser, Trimpe, and Maurer
the problem is
23. Laura bends a piece of wire 72 in. long into the shape of a rectangle that is three times as long as it is wide. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Please show me the work also. Thank you so much.
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Question 145656: Write an equation of the line that passes through the point at (4,4) and is perpendicular to the line whose equation is 2x+y=7???
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Question 145656: Write an equation of the line that passes through the point at (4,4) and is perpendicular to the line whose equation is 2x+y=7???
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Question 145696: using the distance formula find the distance between these 2 points (6,-5)
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Question 146461: hi, i was wondering if someone could help me solve this problem, and show me how to do it.
24. Gary has 1002 meters of fencing. Her will use all the fencing to enclose a rectangular region that is four times as long as it is wide. One of the longer sides is bordered by a rive, so that side will not be fenced. What will be the dimensions of the region?
Please show work if possible. Thank you
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