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Question 1102285: The scale diagram of a basketball court uses a scale of 1:280 the length of the court measures 10 cm in the diagram what is the actual length of the court
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Question 1102286: Rachel designed a bag. In the design the length of the bag is 8cm the actual length of the bag is 20 cm what scale factor did rachelle use in her design
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Question 1102296: In the diagram BD // AE, AC =20 BC=6 CD=4 find the length of DE
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Question 1102745: Find the distance from P to L
--line l contains points (-2 4) and (1 -9). point p has coordinates (14 -6)
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Question 1103205: Find the minimum distance between the point (-2.-8) and the line y=-2
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Question 1103211: Firstly, TYSM for helping me!
Problem: Find the distance between the points (3,-7) and x=8. May you please explain as well?
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Question 1103211: Firstly, TYSM for helping me!
Problem: Find the distance between the points (3,-7) and x=8. May you please explain as well?
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Question 1103249: The braking distance d of a car travelling V mi/hr is approximated by d= v+ (v^2)/20. Determine the velocities that result in braking distance less than 5 mi. Represent the solution graphically as well?
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Question 1103362: A rocket travels 2,000 miles high and lands 700 miles from its base. What is the actual distance the rocket traveled?
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Question 1103631: 2. What part of the coordinate plane is equidistant from the points A(�3,2) and B(3,2)? Explain your answer. (2 points)
Could someone please help me with the above?
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Question 1103708: The perimeter of triangle is 63 units and the lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive even numbers. what is the length of the longest side?
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Question 1103751: the vertices of RST are R(1,-1) S(4,1) and T(4,-3). what are the coordinates of the image after a 90 rotation about the origin?
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Question 1104254: Write the equation of each parabola described.
1.) Vertex at (2,5) Focus at (2,-3)
2.) Diretrix: x= 3/4 Focus: (5/9, -3)
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Question 1105170: Find the minimum amount of material that is used to make a basketball that has a diameter of 9.5 inches. Round the answer to the nearest tenth and label the answer correctly.

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Question 1105167: A scale model of a car has a length of 6 3/4 INCHES. The actual length of the car is 15 FEET. Comparing both measures in inches, what is the ratio of the scale length to the actual length? (Hint: 1 foot = 12 inches)
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Question 1105374: Show that 2x + 3y - 6 = 0 & 4x +6y = 0 are parallel
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Question 1105719: Two tankers, one 250 m in length and the other 110 m in length, travel parallel to each other at different but constant speeds. When traveling in opposite directions it takes them 15 seconds to pass each other, and when traveling in the same direction they take 60 seconds to pass each other. Find the the difference in metres/second.
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Question 1105882: In a rhombus ABCD, AB is parallel to the straight line and BC is parallel to . If the diagonals of the rhombus intersect at the point (2, 1), find the equations of the diagonals.
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Question 1106010: Please give me the answer to these two-
The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 1620 degrees. How many sides does it have?
The measure of one interior angle of a regular polygon is 144 degrees. How many sides does it have?
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Question 1106410: A certain upgrade causes a high-tech space probe to travel at 5 light years per century instead of 3.75 light years per century, so that it can reach the Horsehead Nebula 10 000 years faster. How far away is the Horsehead Nebula, in light years?
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Question 1106619: Find the equation of a circle passing through two points (-4,1) and (4,5) whose centre lies on the straight line 2x-y=1
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Question 1106620: Find the equation of a circle passing through the point (1,2) and tangent to both coordinates axes.

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Question 1107069: The midpoint of xy is z, if xy=3n and xz=n+15, what is yz?
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Question 1107308: The radius of a bicycle wheel is 80 cm. During one trip this wheel rotated twenty-five thousand one hundred twenty-one times. To the nearest metre, how far did the bicycle travel on this trip? Express your answer in kilometres
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Question 1107346: 3)Carlo has a circular window with an area of aproxenately 4069.44cm. Find the radius of the window?
4)what is the area of a circular garden whose diameter is 15 meters?
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Question 1107347: 1)A circular basement has a radius of 6m. It will cost Php per square meter to pave the basement with brinks, what will be the total cost be? 2)Lyn wants to refinish a circular table that is 2.4 meters in diameter.It the refishing cost Php255 per square meter,how much she will be spend?
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Question 1108914: What is the slope of the tangent line at x=-2 and y=x^3
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Question 1110208: find the distance from (-6,-3) to the line defined by 3x+5. express as a radical or a number rounded to the nearest hundredth

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Question 1111676: The length of the bookshelf is 5 feet the length of a model of the bookshelf is 3 feet find the scale factor to the model to the bookshelf
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Question 1111665: Find the vertex, focus, equation of directrix of y^2 +14y-119=24x
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Question 1112498: FIND THE COORDINATES OF THE POINT EQUIDISTANT FROM (1, -6), (5, -6) AND (6, 1)

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Question 1112641: Johnna was tending her garden and suddenly she noticed a very large unknown tree in its center. She didn't want to look up so she looked at the puddle 1 meter from her. She saw the top of the tree which was 9 meter away from the puddle. Find the length of the tree, if Johnna is 1.5 meter tall?
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Question 1112665: A 26-quart radiator contains 50% coolant solution. How much of the solution needs to be drained and replaced with pure coolant to obtain a 60% coolant solution?
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Question 1112666: Suppose that you have a supply of a 35% alcohol solution and a 60% solution. How many liters of each solution should be mixed to produce 25 liters that is 48% alcohol?
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Question 1112664: A wooden rectangular hollow box has outer edges of 6 inches and 5 inches, and height of 8 inches. The uniform thickness of the box is 1 inch.
a. find the amount of material used;
b. how many wooden blocks each cube with 1 inch edge will fit into the box?
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Question 1112669: find the diameters of the following:
a volume 740 cm^3 height 14 cm

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Question 1112746: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose width is 8 miles less than its length and whose area is 65 square miles
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Question 1112937: The length of a photo is 24cm the width is14cm. in order to fit into a wallet the photo needs to be reduced to a length of 7cm- what will be the width of the wallet size photo be?
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Question 1113554: The coordinates of of A are (k, 2k) in OABC, where K>0. length of OA is root 80 units.
If the point C lies on the line through O parallel to y+3x = 5 and also on the perpendicular bisector of AB. calculate the coordinates of C and the area of the quadrilateral OABC.
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Question 1113928: Given the coordinates of the vertices of a quadrilateral, determine whether it is a square, a rectangle or a
parallelogram. Then find the area of the quadrilateral.
J(�6, 4), K(�1, 4), L(�6, �4), M(�1, �4)
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