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Question 156619: what is the midpoint of segment PQ if P is at (3,6) and Q is at (5,10)?

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Question 156619: what is the midpoint of segment PQ if P is at (3,6) and Q is at (5,10)?

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Question 156634: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME! IT'S DUE IN 5 HOURS ONLINE! THANKS!
A rancher with 900 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle.
(a) Find a function that models the total area of the four pens. (Use w to represent the width of the field, and write the function A in terms of w.)
A(w)=
(b) Find the largest possible total area of the four pens.
______ square feet.
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Question 156631: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME! IT'S DUE IN 5 HOURS ONLINE! THANKS!
A woman 5 ft tall is standing near a street lamp that is 12 ft tall, as shown in the figure. Find a function that models the length L of her shadow in terms of her distance d from the base of the lamp.
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Question 156774: Please help me solve this problem.
"Find the coordinates of D if E is the midpoint of CD, for C(-3,4) and E(0,1)."
I am totally lost as how to get started. Thank You!
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Question 156775: Please help me with this problem.
Find the length of LO if M is between L and O, LM=7x-9, MO=14 inches, and LO=10x-7. x=______ LO=________
I have x as being 4. But the "inches" are throwing me off.....I don't know where to go from that. I'm not even sure if I solved "x" correctly.
Thank You!
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Question 156823: A pulley rotates through 50 degrees in one minute. how many rotations does the pulley make in an hour?
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Question 157301: A circle has a diameter with endpoints (-8,-1) and (-3,13). Find the center of the cicle. Find the area of the circle.
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Question 157301: A circle has a diameter with endpoints (-8,-1) and (-3,13). Find the center of the cicle. Find the area of the circle.
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Question 157330: If the sides of a square are lengthened by 5cm, the area becomes 81cm^2. Find the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 157432: Suppose PQ has endpoints P(2,3) and Q(8,-9). Find the coordinates of R and S so that R lies between P and S and PR=RS=SQ.
I know that the answer is R(4,-1) S(6,-5) but I don't know how? Help me understand.
Thanks.
-Liz
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Question 157833: a line segment is 6 cm long, to the nearest cm. give 5 possible lengths of the line segment in millimeters.
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Question 157899: a car travels 120km in 1 hour 40 mins. work out the speed of the car in km/h

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Question 157899: a car travels 120km in 1 hour 40 mins. work out the speed of the car in km/h

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Question 158247: if a foot ladder is six feet from a wall. How high on the wall does the ladder touch.
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Question 158904: What is converse to this "if i pass this test, then i am happy"?
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Question 159013: the length a spring is stretched from its natural length from work. W foot-pounds, given by L = squared sign (2W/k) where k is a constant for a given spring. If a certain spring has a constant of 76.4, and the spring is stretched 3.6 feet from its natural length, how much work will be necessary?
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Question 159118: A ball is thrown downward from a window in a tall building. Its position in time t in seconds is s=16t^2 + 32t, where s is in feet. how long (to the nearest tenth) will it take the ball to fall 175 feet?
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Question 159479: To get to a friend's house from his apartment, a student walks 4 blocks west and 6 blocks south. Usine the origin of a coordinate plane as the starting point,
Find the coordinates of the locateion of the friends apartment
How far from the student's apartment is the friend's house?
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Question 159890: find the distance between each pair of parallel lines
x+3y=-14
1x+3y=-14
-3y -14
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1x =-14
-- ---
1 1
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x =-14
x+3y=6
1x+3y=6
-3 -3
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1x = 3
-- -
1 1
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x = 3
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Question 159875: Please help me solve these equations:
Line segment: AB=2x, BC=4x-3, CD=3x, DE=2x+3
Given: The length of BD exceeds the length of CE by 10.
What is the length of CD?
Which is longer, AC or CE?
What is the total length of AE?
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Question 160068: M is the midpoint of XY. X has coordinates (2, 7)and M has coordinates (6, 1). Find the coordinates of Y.

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Question 160267: HE TRAVELED 200MILES MORE THAN HALF OF YESTERDAY. WHAT IS THE EXPRESSIONS

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Question 160621: How do you find unknown coordinates for the vertices of a polygon without introducing any new variables. One side of the square lies on the x-axis and one side lies on the y-axis. Vertex A in on the origin. Vertex B lies on the Y-axis, Vertex C's coordinates are (t,t) Vertex D coordinates are (t,0) How would I find coordinates for vertex A; and vertex B? I think A would be (0,0) because it's on the origin. But then I get lost> Can you help?
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Question 161015: At 9am two bicyclists heading in opposite directions pass eachother on a bicycle path. The bike heading north is riding 8km/hour FASTER than the bike heading south. At 1030 they are 36km apart. Find the two bikes rates and show you got your answers
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Question 161041: CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM:
Solve the problem:
Janet drove 256 kilometers and the trip took 4 hours. How fast was Janet traveling?
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Question 161037: CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM:
A triangle has a perimeter of 96 inches. Its shortest side measures 3 inches shorter than its middle side, and longest side measures 12 inches longer than its middle side. Find the lengths of the triangle's three side.
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Question 161040: CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM:
The length a spring is stretched from its natural length with work, W foot-pounds, given by L = checksign (2W/k) where k is a constant for the given spring. If a certain spring has a constant of 76.4, and the spring is to be stretched 3.6 feet from its natural length, how much work will be necessary?
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Question 161426: A relay team ran a 4 by 400 meter race. How many cm does that equal to?
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Question 162072: 95cm = _____mm
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Question 162229: Michelle jogs 12 miles in one hour and 30 mins. Find speed in MPH.

What if she jog 18 miles
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Question 162410: What is the area of a wall if it is 6.0 meters long and 2.5 meters high?
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Question 163143: A wheel on Samuel's bicycle is in diameter. Samuel races the bicycle for . How many times does the wheel turn as the bicycle covers this distance?
Use the value for . Round your answer to the nearest tenth. Do not round any intermediate steps

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Question 163189: A triangle has a perimeter of 161 miles. Each of the two smaller sides of the triangle is two-thirds the length of the longest side. Find the length of each side of the triangle.
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Question 163516: What is the length, in feet, of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs that are 6 feet long and 7 feet long, respectively?
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Question 163657: Good Day to you all. Could you please solve the following questions for me:
1). 20m 4dm divided by 12
2). 12cm 16mm divided by 8
3). 9km 300m divided by 4
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Question 163851: M (8,6) is the midpoint of RS. The coordinates of S are (9,7). What are the coordinates of R?
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Question 164587: Find the distance between each pair of parallel lines
1. y= -3 y= 1
2. x= 4 x= -2
3. y=2x + 2 y= 2x - 3
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Question 165010: If the length of a rectangular field is 8 feet more than double of its width. Find the dimensions of the field if its area is 540 square feet?
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Question 165266: Find two possible coordinates of Q so that PQ = 5.
On the number line P= -2 and H= 3
then I have to find the coordinate of the midpoint of PH.
It has been so many years since I have done this stuff. I just can't get this one.
these are found on Page 62
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Question 165933: I need help with a question could someone please help??
Find the length, to the nearest tenth, of the apothem of a regular octogon whose sides are each 10 inches long?
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Question 166150: Show that the points (4,5),(1,1) and (-2,5) are the vertices of an isosceles triangle. Find the area.
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Question 166153: A line segment 5 units long has one of its ends at (3,1). The ordinate of the other end is 5. Find its abscissa.
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