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Question 982287: In Angle ABC, C is a right angle. Find the remaining sides and angles. Round your answers to the nearest tenth.
a = 3, c = 19
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Question 982341: a rectangular box is completely filled with dice. Each dice has a volume of 1 cubic cm. Suppose the box holds at most 140 dice. What are the possible dimensions of the box?
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Question 982346: James built a box with dimensions 30cm long, 12cm wide and 20cm high what is the longest paintbrush that can be stored in the box
Show working out please
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Question 982519: leg A is 7' attached to leg C at a right angle. Leg B is attached to leg A and B and is 28' long. What is the length of leg C?
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Question 982865: X^2+(x+6)^2=(x+12)^2
I got the answer with trial an error. But i don't understand how to show the work.
(Finding the lengths of all legs of a right triangle)
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Question 983927: what is the total length of a triangle if one side equals 337 and another equals 9?

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Question 984064: The front wall of the house is in the shape of equilateral triangle. The base of the house is 10m long. How tall is the front of the house

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Question 984327: Please help me with this Question.,A chord of lenght 24cm is 13cm from the centre of the circle. Calculate the radius of the circle.And (the distance of a chord of a circle,or radius 5cm,from the centre is 4cm.calculate the lenght of the chord)
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Question 984505: a=x
b=x+12
C=60
help would be sooooo appreciated
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Question 984686: A suitcase measures 24 inches long, 18 inches high, and 12 inches deep. What is the longest stick you could place in the suitcase to the nearest tenth of a foot?
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Question 985613: How do you round a square rooted number to the nearest tenth
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Question 986124: The shorter sides of an acute triangle are x cm and 2x cm. The longest side of the triangle is 15 cm.
What is the smallest possible whole-number value of x?
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Question 986627: Hi my name is Gabi and I'm trying to do this problem A(0,0),B(8,6) it says that I need to use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance between each pair of point and I don't really know how to use it
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Question 986779: One leg Of a right triangle Is 5 inches lInter than the other. If the hypotenuse is 25 inches long, Find the lengths of the legs.(only an algerbraic solution will be accepted)
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Question 986912: A 50 foot tower is to be fastened by five guy wires attached to the top of the tower and to the ground at positions 30 feet from its base. How much wire is needed ? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 986916: The lengths of two sides of right triangle are given. Find the missing side length. Give the exact answer and an approximation to the nearest hundredth.
B=6mm and C=15mm
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Question 987219: The length of the longer leg of a right triangle is
6m more than twice the length of the shorter leg. The length of the hypotenuse is 9m more than twice the length of the shorter leg. Find the side lengths of the triangle. Thank you
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Question 987355: Ellen wants to put some edging around her lawn
The lawn is in the shape of a right-angle triangle
The edging is sold in pieces 110cm long and 20cm high
The price of each piece is �5
Calculate how much it will cost Ellen to do the job
The lengths of the lawn is 6m high and 4m long
could you show me the method please
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Question 987535: The legs of a right isoceles triangle are each √71 feet. How long is the hypotenus of this triangle? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Question 988155: The midpoint of uv is (5 -11). The coordinates of one endpoint are u(3,5). Find the coordinates of endpoint v.
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Question 988271: A 40 foot tower is to be fastened by three guy wires attached to the top of the tower and the ground at positions 20 feet from its base. How much wire is needed? Round to the nearest tenth
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Question 989149: ABC is an equilateral triangle in which BC=2cm. Find the perpendicular distance from A to BC.
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Question 989471: How to find the area of a rectangle whose length is 12 and whose diagonal is 13?
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Question 989688: A three-foot kiddy slide must meet the ground very gradually, making an angle of 155 degrees. Find the height and the length of the floor it will cover. Help I've tried this and can't get it
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Question 989742: A tree from the ground at a height of 5 meters are broken. And the upper extremity touching distance of 12 meters from the ground to the base. Please find the full height of the tree.
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Question 989757: I am having a hard time solving this problem, im completely drawing a blank.
The equation is: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 20cm and one leg is 16cm. Find the length of the other leg. And find the area of the triangle.
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Question 990322: A rectangular shaped telivison screen measures 26" across on of the diagonals. What is the measure of the othe diagonal?
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Question 990380: If area of a rectangle is 52inches squared and the base is 4 inches what is the height
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Question 990594: ABCD is a rhombus of side 15cm. The diagonal AC is of length 20cm. Find the angle between AC and the side CD.
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Question 990911: My Question Is The Length Of At Diagonal Of A Rectangle Lawn Is 30cm And The Length Of One Side Is 24cm .Find The Perimeter
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Question 990912: My Question Is The Length Of A Diagonal Of A Rectangle Lawn Is 30cm And The Length Of One Side Is 24cm . Find The Perimeter.
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Question 991811: Suppose there is a right triangle with 2 legs of 7 cm and 11 cm long. What is the measurement of the hypotenuse?
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Question 992722: i was wondering if there was a way that if you had a right triangles hypotenuse, if you can find the lengths of the legs?
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Question 992744: The sides of a rectangular swimming pool are 50m & 30m. What is the distance in meters of the opposite corners?
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Question 992781: consider the right triangle where a=3 and b=3 what is the value of c written in simple radical form and rounded to the nearest hundredth

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Question 993063: Please make sure your answers to the following questions are in Radical Form.
Grace and Chandler met for lunch. At 1 p.m., they parted ways. Maybe forever, considering how they left things. Chandler drove due south at 30 mph and Grace drove due east at 60 mph. Apparently, she was more upset than he was. At 2:30 p.m., how far away are Grace and Chandler?
It says that I have to use the Pythagorean Theorem to write an equation that will help solve my problem. Then I must write in a sentence my answer, and explaining what it means. I understand what that is and how you do it. I just don't understand how to do it all in Radical Form.
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Question 993434: Using the Pythagorean Theorem where a and c are known and b is unknown. How do I solve this problem.
Drive A is heading East and Driver B is heading North. After 30 mins Driver A has gone 20 miles and Driver B has gone 21 miles. How far apart are Drivers A and B after 30 mins of traveling?
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Question 996184: What is the length of the unknown side of the right triangle?
A right triangle with hypotenuse x and legs 21 and 20
21
29
400
441
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Question 997940: The diagonal of a square is 30cm. Find the length of the sides of the square.
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