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Question 92798: In triangle ABC, C is the right angle, B = 30 degrees, and side b = 3. Find the exact value of the missing sides. Thank you for your help.
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Question 93482: using the theorem what is the answer to a problem where triangle sides are 3.1, 8.7 and x

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Question 95477: Make up a right triangle 12cm, 15cm, and 20cm?
unit 3 page 43
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Question 95565: A rhombus has sides of length 7 cm. One of its diagonals is 10 cm long. Find the lengths of the other diagonal.
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Question 95565: A rhombus has sides of length 7 cm. One of its diagonals is 10 cm long. Find the lengths of the other diagonal.
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Question 95743: A baseball diamond is a square with 90 feet on each side. How far is it between home plate and second base?
Steck-vaughn Top Line Math Geometry P. 43
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Question 95932: If you were going to make a ladder to climb a top the Triceratops back, Providing hthey would let you and the distance from the Triceratops to where the ladder will go to the sand is 24ft. How long would the ladder be.
Triceratops is 26 ft long and 10 ft high.
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Question 96021: The base of a ladder is 7 feet away from the wall. The top of the ladder is 7 feet from the floor. Find the length of the ladder to the nearest thousandth.
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Question 96047: there is a triangle that you just have the sides that dont make a right angle and the lengths are 10 and 15 how do i solve it?
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Question 96075: can you please help me with this problem because i keep getting stuck on it and i can't move to the next problem because they are all the same
PROBLEM: USE THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM TO FIND THE VALUE OF X. ROUND ANSWERS TO THE NEAREST TENTH. A= X, B=22, AND C =37 THESE ARE THE SIDES SO THE PROBLEM WILL LOOK LIKE THIS A SQUARED + B SQUARED = C SQUARED
showing my work this is where i got so far on the problem
x squared + 22 squared = 37 squared
x squared + 484 = 1369
-484 -484 from both sides
x squared= 896
x=square root 896
x=29.933259
but what i dont understand is when they say round answers to the nearest tenth
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Question 96383: I am having trouble solving the following:
On the triangle, side A is x, side B is 16 and the hypotenuse is x+8. I can't seem to figure out where to start.
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Question 98575: This problem is taken from a Chinese mathematics textbook called Chui-chang suan-shu, or Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, which was written about 250 B.C. A 10-ft-long stem of bamboo is broken in such a way that its tip touches the ground t = 3 ft from the base of the stem, as shown in the figure. What is the height of the break? (Hint: Use the Pythagorean Theorem.)
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Question 98769: Could some on please help me? I do not remember how to se the Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of each line segment. Where appropriate,
round to the nearest hundredth.
( 1,-1) (3,2)
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Question 99366: Ok
We have a right triangle, the hypotanuse is R+4, one of the legs is R and one is 8. I get (4+r)^2=r^2+8^2 .. how do i solve this with out the r^2 canceling out?
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Question 99384: Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of each line segment. Where appropriate, round to the nearest hundredth.
48.) (3, 2), (1, -1)

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Question 72115: An Indian sand painter begins his picture with a circle of dark sand. He then inscribes a square with a side length of 1 foot inside the circle. What is the area of the circle?
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Question 102238: translate each equation into a verble sentence
2=x-9

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Question 102620: Does the Pythagorean theorem expresses a relationship between the sides of a scalene triangle, an obtuse triangle, an equilateral triangle, an isosceles triangle, a right triangle and an acute triangle?
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Question 103549: Hi my name is sharney avril and I am in the 7th grade and I dont understand what my teacher is trying to explain to me about Pythagorean theorem but anyway this is my question:
What Is The Concept About It I Just Understand It Period Can u Please help me?? My Final Exam Is On October,12,2007 THIS FRIDAY SO PLEASE HELP ME YOUR MY ONLY HOPE!!!!!

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Question 104465: If the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 24 meters and the length of one of its legs is 12 meters, find the length of the other leg. Round to the nearest tenth, if necessary.
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Question 104835: if you are given 2 sides of a right triangle. how can you find the third

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Question 105621: Calculate the length of the third side of each triangle. Round to one decimal place. The height equals 7 meters and the length equals 12 meters.
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Question 105792: The length of one leg of a right triangle is 24ft. The length of the other leg is 16 ft shorter than the hypotenuse. Find the length of the hypotenuse and the other leg. I believe the formula should be 24 squared + c squared - 16 = c squared but I can't get the equation to work without having a negative number. What am I doing wrong.

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Question 105622: What is the length of the triangle if the height is 10.2 meters high and the other side is 14.7 meters high?

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Question 107859: You go 50 km West, then 20 km North. How many km are you from where you started?
Can someone explain to me how to slove this question please and thank you.
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Question 107894: statement and reason
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Question 108056: The length of a rectangle exceeds twice its width by 3 inces. If the area is 10 square inches, find the rectangles dimensions. Round to the nearest tenth of an inch.
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Question 108251: The base-path of a baseball diamond form a square. If it is 90ft from home to first, how far does the catcher have to throw to catch someone stealing second base?
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Question 92124: a triangle has 6 sides , w y z and y z x find the missing part.
wz= 6 , zx=8 , and wy = 9, find xy , the base is w z x
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Question 109598: Find length x in each triangle. Express your answer in simplified radical form.
x/ |
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5

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Question 109616: I need help with this problem please.
The answer is suppose to be to the nearest thousandth.
The base of an 18-ft ladder is 4 ft away from a wall. How far above
the floor is the top of the ladder?
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Question 109612: If the diagonals of a rhombus measure 6 and 8, the length of a side is:
1. 10
2. 5
3 5 square roots of 3
4. 5 square roots of 2
PLEASE HELP!- NEED SOON!
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Question 109613: A square and a rectangle have the same area. The length of the rectangle is 8 in. more than a side of the square, and the width of the rectangle is 4 in. less than a side of the square. Find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 110170: i am in 8th grade and i would like help with this
The triple 8-15-17 is a Pythagorean Triple
a=8, b=15 and c=17 (these are the original numbers to work with)
how do you find more triples X2, X3, X5 and X10
Then you check the answers c squared = a squared + b squared?
Confused
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Question 111769: CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THIS.
measure the height of your computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or sixteenth of of an inch.measure the width of your monitor as well.use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of the diagnal of the monitor.
thankyou
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Question 113778: Use the distance formula to show that each set of points describes an isosceles triangle
(a triangle with two sides of equal length).
(-2, 4), (2, 7), and (5, 3)

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Question 114761: how long must a guy wire be to run from the top od a 20-ft pole to a point on the ground 8ft from the basse of the pole?
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Question 116224: A television tower has a guy wire attached 6 meters from the top of the tower and secured to the ground 40 meters from the base of the tower. If the guy wire is 50 meters in length, how tall is the tower?
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Question 116463: How do you find the hypotenuse? Secondly how do I find the hypotenuse to the nearest 10th?
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Question 117154: Which of the following is an equation of the circle that has its center at C(2,3) and passes through A(5,7) in the standard (x,y)coordinate plane?

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Question 117712: Find the area of a square oif sides measure 24 cm

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Question 117714: Find the perimeter of a square if the side measure 3 cm
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