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Question 1068165: An isoceles triangle has 20cm legs and a 16cm base, whats the length of thr altitude to the base?
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Question 1068280: The following diagram shows a solid consisting of a right circular cone fastened to a hemisphere with a common base.Find the a) volume of solid b) total surface area of sold
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Question 1068279: A storage tank consists of a hemisphere of diameter 4.7m and a cylinder.The overall height of the tank is 16.5m.Find the capacity of the tank.

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Question 1068460: Write an equation of the horizontal line through the given point . (5,6)
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Question 1069695: A family has two children.What is the probability that the younger child is a girl,given that at least one of the children is a girl?
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Question 1070151: a Square-based pyramid has a base of side 3.2m and a vertical height of 9.2m.
Find the length of the sloped edges of the pyramid

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Question 1070575: Two sides of a right triangle are 8 and 12 inches.
a. Find the missing side if these are the lengths of the legs.
b. Find the missing side if these are the lengths of a leg and hypotenuse.
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Question 1070632: the longer leg of a right triangle is 1 inch longer than the shorter leg. the hypotenuse is 9 inches longer than the shorter leg. find the side lengths of the triangle.
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Question 1071007: Two ships leave at the same time , ship x is heading due north and ship Y is heading due east. Twelve hours later they are 600 miles apart. If the ship X Had travels 480 miles from the port , how many miles will ship Y travel?
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Question 1071253: The telephone wire pole of 25ft which has a support wire of 24ft that runs from top ti the groind find the distance of pole from wire at ground
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Question 1071473: A triangle has sides of
lengths 4, 5, and 6.
Find the length of altitude to
the side of length 6.
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Question 1071992: AB and CD ARE TWO PARALLEL CHORDS OF A CIRCLE WHICH ARE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CENTRE. SUCH THAT AB=10cm AND CD=24cm FIND THE RADIUS IF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AB AND CD IS 17cm.

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Question 1072160: ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral whose diagonals intersect at P such that angle DBC=30 degree and angle BAC=50 degree.
Find angle BCD and angle CAD.
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Question 1072273: Find x. The angle B is a right angle: http://imgur.com/a/xV8jA
I'm not sure if I've got the answer right.
I have solved it but came to get the answers 0 or 12 but can x really be equal to 0? Since when you sub x=0 back in, you get -4 at AB and length cannot be negative... right?

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Question 1072815: In a right triangle ABC , measure of angle C=90 degrees. If AB=6x-1, BC=4x+6 and AC=2x+1, find x.
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Question 1072815: In a right triangle ABC , measure of angle C=90 degrees. If AB=6x-1, BC=4x+6 and AC=2x+1, find x.
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Question 1072820: TEN is a right triangle with Angle T a right angle and TO an altitude to the hypotenuse. If TO= 12, OE is 7 more than NO, find NO and OE.
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Question 1073959: how do I find the height of an equilateral triangle that has a perimeter of 24

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Question 1073959: how do I find the height of an equilateral triangle that has a perimeter of 24

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Question 1073959: how do I find the height of an equilateral triangle that has a perimeter of 24

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Question 1074013: A rectanguler metal box has internal dimensions of 2cm by 4cm with a height of 3cm. Find the length of the longest needle which can be placed in the box correct to the nearest millimetre.
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Question 1074630: hi im stuck on this prob so a and b are the same measurments but c is 10 so ca u tell me what a and b is thxs in advanced

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Question 1074815: Can you help me? A latter is leaning against a wall. The bottom of the letter is 7 feet from the wall. The top of the ladder against the wall is 24 feet up. How long is the lette can you help me? A ladder is leaning against a wall. The bottom of the latter is 7 feet from the wall. The top of the ladder against the wall is 24 feet up. How long is the ladder..
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Question 1074962: In triangle RST, RS = 13, ST = 14, and RT = 15.
Let M be the midpoint of ST. Find RM.
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Question 1074968: The diagonal of a square garden has a length of 10 m find the width of the garden
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Question 1075166: On the grid below, draw a line segment with length 41 cm.
Explain how you did it.
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Question 1075496: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 7 less than three times the shortest leg. The longer of the two legs is 7 more than the shorter leg. Find all three missing lengths.

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Question 1075904: PQR is an isosceles triangle such that QP=QR=13cm and the altitude PS= 12 cm.Find the length of PR.
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Question 1075904: PQR is an isosceles triangle such that QP=QR=13cm and the altitude PS= 12 cm.Find the length of PR.
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Question 1076267: I only know leg b which is 8 in. how do I find the other sides?
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Question 1076575: Given sinx=45 and cosx=35.

What is ratio for tanx ?
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Question 1076575: Given sinx=45 and cosx=35.

What is ratio for tanx ?
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Question 1077134: How do you find the diagnol length of a squares side if you are only giving 1 measurement
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Question 1077439: A piece of metal has the shape of a right triangle. The hypotenuse is 3 ft shorter than four times the shortest side and the longer side is 10 ft longer than twice the shorter side. What is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle?

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Question 1078089: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 1 inch longer than the longer of the two legs. The shorter leg is 7 inches. Find the length of the hypotenuse
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Question 1078236: adam travels 35 miles west and then 42 miles south. how far away is he from his starting point if he goes back in a straight line?
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Question 1078791: Two vertical poles of lengths 10 feet and 12 feet stand 15 feet apart. A cable reaches from the top of one pole to some point on the ground between the poles and then to the top of the other pole. Where should this point be located to use 27 feet of cable?
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Question 1078970: If the diagonal of the square is 13
units long, how long is each side of the square to the nearest tenth?
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Question 1079888: in the diagram below, line qr is an altitude of triangle npq and line nq perpendicular to line pq. if nr equals 250 and pr equals 10, what is the measure of qr, in simplest radical form?
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Question 1080038: Please help me solve this question:
1."A chord of length 24cm Is 13cm from the centre of the circle.calculate the radius of the circle".
2."Two parallel chord lie on opposite sides of the centre of a circle of radius 13cm there length are 10cm and 4cm".
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Question 1080261: Find the lengths of the legs of a right triangle whose hypotenuse is 15^1/2 feet and whose area is 3 square feet.

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Question 1080879: How can you solve a right triangle with two variables?? If a=x+1 b=x c=5 then how do you know?
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