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Question 670848: A TELIVISION HAS A 20 INCH DIAGONAL SCREEN AND A 12 INCH HEIGHT . WHAT IS THE LENGH OF THE TELEVISION?
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Question 670982: A "wide screen" tv has an aspect ratio of 16:9. Find the length of a diagnol on a wide screen tv screen that has the same height as the screen in excersice 4
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Question 672354: A quarter (25 cent piece) is 3/4 inch in diameter and when placed 7 feet from the eye will just block out the disc of the moon. If the diameter of the moon is 2160 miles, how far is the moon from Earth?
How would I go about on solving this one?
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Question 672414: solve for x? 7x+3= 9x-5
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Question 673266: The distance between the points (7, 3) and (9, 3) is how many units?
PLEASE SHOW ME HOW YOU GET THE ANSWER!!
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Question 674593: If you move 7 units up along the y-axis from (�3, �13), which point will you end up at?

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Question 676187: I have a 3-D hexagonal pyramid. The dimensions are 0.5m for each side, the height is 1.5 m and the base is 2m. They are asking to determine the height of the triangle faces of the pyramid using Pythagorean Theorem.Round to one place. The 2nd question is how large a tarp they will need to cover the top and the bottom of the tent? Round to one decimal place.
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Question 230391: does a right triangle with the dimensions of 8cm,9cm,and 12cm exist?
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Question 238487: height-10cm and base-8cm and what is the hypotenuse
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Question 677469: how do i do 45 -45-90 theorem with 6*sq root of 2 what is the answer

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Question 678384: A working student has to deliver a package to a client. Before he can reach the client's office, he has to travel 3 km due to east, then 4 km due to south, and then 6 km due to west. How far is their office from the client's office?
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Question 679032: The sum of the lengths of the two legs of a right triangle is 7 inches. If the length of the hypotenuse is 5 inches, find the length of each leg.
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Question 680252: John�s barn is 200 yards due north of his house and his tractor is 300
yards due east of his house. How many yards must he walk to go directly from his tractor
to his barn if he walks in a straight line?
(A) 10 13 (B) 500 (C) 100 13 (D) 400 (E) 500
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Question 683957: A right triangle has 2cm and 9cm respectively less than its hypotenuse. Write an appropriate equation, find the length of each side of the triangle. This is an IB SAMPLE TEST QUESTION.
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Question 684995: What I do if I know b and c but need to find answer to a
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Question 688147: The base of a 45-45 degrees right triangle measures 8 inches. Find the height and the hypotenuse of the right triangle.

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Question 688145: The base of a 45-45 degrees right triangle measures 8 inches. Find the height and the hypotenuse of the right triangle.

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Question 688521: A triangle has these sides. Will it be acute, right, obtuse or not possible? Show work to justify your answers.
1. 5,8,9
2. 3,4,5
3. 3,5,11
4. 2,12,13
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Question 691467: What is the answer to this problem Q(-9-2(, R(_4_4), S(_6_9)
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Question 691493: 1 leg of a right triangle is 17 ft longer then the other leg. the hypotenuse is 25 ft. find the length of the 3 sides of the triangle?
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Question 691701: How do you solve Pythagoras in 3D shapes?
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Question 691737: The legs of a right triangle are 15 meters and 9 meters. Find the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 692788: a 81m high pole breaks but donot seperate and touch the ground 27m away from base at what height it will break from ground what is the solution through pythagoras theorem
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Question 695266: Please help me answer this question: Tell whether a triangle with side lengths 11, 5, and sqrt(146) is a right triangle. Explain why or why not?
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Question 695272: Please help me answer this question: The lengths of the sides of four triangles are given. Determine which triangle is not a right triangle.
(a) 5mm, 12mm, 13mm (b) 5/2mm, 6mm, 13/2mm (c) 6mm, 12mm, 13mm (d) 10mm, 24mm, 26mm
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Question 695287: Please help me answer this question: Which ones are right angles?
4cm, 6cm, 10cm 9in, 12in, 15in 8ft, 5ft, ft Why?
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Question 696349: Imagine that you are a pirate on watch in a crow's nest so that your eyes are 40 feet above the water. Determine the farthest distance from which you could spot the top of a 50 foot tree on a sea-level island.
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Question 696752: if a triangle has side lengths of 3,8, and 10 is it acute,right or obtuse?
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Question 697002: if side of square field is 89 m.find the length of diagonal correct to 2 decimal places
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Question 697420: If angle (7x-3) and angle (5x+7)are congruent find x
Please Help
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Question 697524: PQRS is a rectangle in which PQ=10cm and Ps=6cm.T is a point on PQ such that RST is an isosceles triangle whose equal side are RS and ST.Find RT.
The main Problem I face here is Placing the P,Q,R and S.I always get them wrong,how should the placing be done.
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Question 697554: the length of one leg of a right triangle is 17cm more than that of the other leg. The length of the hypotenue is 4 vm more than triple that of the shorter leg. Find the lenghts of each of the three sides
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Question 697680: how do you find the perimeter of a non right triangle using the pythagorean theorem

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Question 698339: determine whether the triangle whose sides are of length 15cm, 20cm and 25cm is a right angled triangle?
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Question 699191: Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance to the nearest tenth, between F(9, 5) and G(-2, 2). (Hint: Place F and G on the coordinate plane. Then sketch a triangle with FG as the hypotenuse.)
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Question 701230: Use rhombus XYZW with m /4
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Question 705598: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15 units in length.
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Question 706376: A mouse is in a corner inside a rectangular box. The length of the box is 30 feet, the width is 24 feet, and the height is 16 feet. The mouse is in the bottom corner and has to get to the opposite top corner (look at diagram). The mouse can run on any surface in any direction and on the ceiling. The mouse gets to the finish in 50 ft, what route did he take? THANK YOU SOO MUCH
DIAGRAM LINK:
http://tinypic.com/r/348t2ft/6
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Question 706726: A right angle is formed between a telephone pole and a guid wire and the ground, the guide wire forms the hypotenuse. The height of the pole is 7ft the length of the wire is 25ft. Draw a diagram of the rt trianglr formed. find the distance between the pole and the wire that touches the ground
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Question 707168: Reasoning: A square has a diagonal of 12 cm. What is the perimeter of the square? Express in simplest radical form
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Question 707787: on a coordinate plane what is the distance between (-3 , 2)and (5, -1)

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Question 710117: What is the area of a 45-45-90 triangle with legs of length x?

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Question 711977: The area of a square is 81 centimeters. Find the lenght of a side
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