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Question 549173: What is the length of the diagonal of a 10 cm by 15 cm rectangle? I have 5/13 cm but I was told it was wrong. Thank you in advance..
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Question 549212: in a45 degree - 45 degree - 90 degree triangle, the ration of the length of the hypotenuse to the lengh of a side is?
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Question 549188: How far from the base of the house do you need to place a 15-foot ladder so that it exactly reaches the top of a 12-
foot tall wall?
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Question 549185: Jill�s front door is 42� wide and 84� tall. She purchased a circular table that is 96 inches in diameter. Will the table fit
through the front door? Explain using approximations.
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Question 549186: The bottom of a ladder must be placed 3 feet from a wall. The ladder is 12 feet long. How far above the ground does the ladder touch the wall?
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Question 549178: a. Find the missing side if 8 and 12 are legs. b. Find the missing side if 8 and 12 are a leg and hypotenuse
Two sides of a right triangle are 8 and 12.
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Question 549187: A soccer field is a rectangle 90 meters wide and 120 meters long. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the corner diagonally across. What is this distance?
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Question 549183: An isosceles triangle has congruent sides of 20 cm. The base is 10 cm. Find the height of the triangle.
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Question 549425: right triangle:
a= 6x
b=8x
and the hypotenuse is 90m.
what is the length of side a and side b??
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Question 549514: If A = 4B and A = 20 what is B?
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Question 549810: Find sine of angle S. Show all work and round answers to the nearest hundredth.
A right triangle is drawn with one of the non-right angles labeled S. The side adjacent to angle S is labeled 7. The side opposite angle S is labeled 24. The hypotenuse is labeled 25.

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Question 550281: Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of the unknown side of the triangle,(b) determine the perimeter of the triangle(c) determine the area of the triangle.
Side A=12 in
side B=15 in
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Question 550443: A 20 meter ladder and a 15 meter ladder were leaned against a building. The bottom of the longer ladder was 7 meters farther from the building than the bottom of the shorter ladder, but both ladders reached the same distance up the building. Find the distance the ladders reached up the building.
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Question 551114: In a 3-D setting:
Given 1 leg and the Hypotenuse, calculate the missing leg. HOW TO DO!?!
I was out sick from school right before winter break and I missed an exam! I completely forgot! Then on the Thursday that I returned on, I did not have Math class that day and Friday was a short day with no academics. Now, I had all week to study for this test but I'm buckling down right now! If i don't get a good grade on this exam I will look foolish and be disappointed! After all, A week to study for a test?!? Along with extra time before this week!?! I have to get a good grade other wise that is just not acceptable!
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Question 551179: C=6, A-4; find b
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Question 551184: c-12,b=2a; find b and a pls, i need help for this one,i dont get the right ans...THANK YOU
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Question 551393: A piece of wire 40 in. long is bent into form of a right triangle, one of whose legs is 15 in. long. Determine the lengths of the other two sides. This one is Mensuration problem. It's really hard to answer. Someone help me. Please, thank you~ <3
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Question 552167: I had a gre Quanitative Comparision question state that one quanity had sides of 3 and 4 and it was looking for the third leg. The other quantity had 12 and 13 as sides with a missing side. So I put that the other sides were 5 because of the special right triangle property, but it was talking about the triangle inequality act. How can I tell the difference of what they were asking for?
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Question 552206: As David paddled his canoe across a 90-yd-wide river, the current carried him 40 yd downstream. How far did he paddle?
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Question 552493: Hello. Can you please help me solve this. Determine the distance between A(-1, 2, 3) and B(4, -5, 6) to the nearest tenth.
Thank you
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Question 552515: please help me to solve the following word problem. A 20 foot ladder is leaned against a wall. If the base of the ladder is 8 feet from the wall, how high up the wall will the ladder reach?
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Question 552658: I need to find the distance between 3 triangles using the Pythagorean theorem .
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Question 553062: you have a rectangle that 10 m wide and 24 m long
how long is the diagonal?
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Question 553956: Given a right triangle, use the Pythagorean Theorem to find "a" (one of the legs) when c = 85 and b = 53. (Round your answer to the nearest tenth.)
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Question 554074: How do you figure out if a triangle is a right triangle using only the lengths of each side.
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Question 554074: How do you figure out if a triangle is a right triangle using only the lengths of each side.
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Question 554109: A builder needs to add diagonal braces to a wall. The wall is 16 feet wide by 12 feet high. What is the length of each brace?
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Question 554221: how would you perform the following pythagorean theorem example questione ?... sarah sailed 12 miles due south from a buoy. how far was she from the buoy
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Question 554488: the lengths of three sides of a triangle are given.determine whether each triangle is a right angle.
14 ft, 48 ft, 50 ft
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Question 554720: What is an expression for a parallelogram with a height of 2y and a base of 3x?
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Question 554848: If the side of a triangle are 7,6,and 9 the triangle is an
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Question 554848: If the side of a triangle are 7,6,and 9 the triangle is an
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Question 554914: the area of a square is 81 square centimeters, find the length of the diagonal.
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Question 554914: the area of a square is 81 square centimeters, find the length of the diagonal.
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Question 555793: Caroline and Trevor are flying a kite. Caroline is holding the kite and has let out 80 feet of kite string. Trevor is standing 25 feet from Caroline and is directly under the kite. Caroline is holding the string 3 feet above the ground. How far above the ground is the kite?
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Question 556184: i badly needed your precious help, please i think i'm going to die. my problem is the school stage is rectangular in shape. its diagonal is 13 m. the length is 7m longer than its width. find the length and width of the stage.. please i really need your answer
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Question 556227: if (a)is the length of a leg of a triangle, then (a) is less than the length of the hypotenuse. true or false
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Question 556498: Using the pythagorean Theorem, find the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15
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Question 556837: beginning with a 3 dimentional rectangular box, how is the degree of the angle of turn determined where a line enters the box and then proceeds to the furthest corner within the box

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Question 556923: Using the Pythagorean Theorem, find the length of a leg of a right triangle if the other leg is 8 feet long and the hypotenuse is 10 feet long.
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Question 557314: is pythagorean theorem a square + b square = c square
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Question 557314: is pythagorean theorem a square + b square = c square
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Question 557505: How do key into the calculator square root 180 when using the Pythagorean Theoran
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