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Question 1148851: If you place a 80-foot ladder against the top of a 64-foot building, how many feet will the bottom of the ladder be from the bottom of the building?
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Question 1149254: how long is a string reaching from the of a 15 foot pole to a point on the ground that is 9 ft from the base of the pole
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Question 1149475: A long-distance runner runs 2 miles south and then 8 miles east. How far is the runner from the starting point? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth if necessary
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Question 1149618: ♦ A rectangular field is to be divided along its diagonal PR into two plots. If the
dimensions of the field are 150m × 75m calculate the length of the fencing needed
to divide the field (length of PR)
♦ Round off to an acceptable level of accuracy.

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Question 1150122: a 4 m ladder rests against a vertical wall with its foot 2m from the wall. How far up the wall does the ladder reach?
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Question 1150309: If x =3cm and Z=5cm, what is the length for Y
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Question 1150326: A cube has a side length of 6 meters. How would the Volume be affected if you tripled the height of a cube?
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Question 1150326: A cube has a side length of 6 meters. How would the Volume be affected if you tripled the height of a cube?
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Question 1150326: A cube has a side length of 6 meters. How would the Volume be affected if you tripled the height of a cube?
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Question 1150626: Using a 4:3 ratio, determine the side lengths of a TV whose diagonal length is 55 inches.
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Question 1150626: Using a 4:3 ratio, determine the side lengths of a TV whose diagonal length is 55 inches.
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Question 1151126: 15. 5. A baseball “diamond” is actually a square with sides of 90 feet. If a runner tries to steal second base, how far must the catcher, at home plate, throw to get the runner “out”? Given this information, explain why runners more often try to steal second base than third.

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Question 1151538: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 9 feet long. One leg is 3 feet longer than the other. Find the exact length of each leg and approximate the length of each leg to 2 decimal places

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Question 1151547: a newly planted tree needs to be staked with three wires. each wire is attached to the trunk 3feet above the ground and then anchored to the ground 4feet from the base of the tree. how much wire is needed for 6trees?

i could be a smart butt and put double that as an answer but i need the credits for math.
thank you for you help :}
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Question 1152528: Simplifying the expression 12x-4x²-(3+x²)
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Question 1152528: Simplifying the expression 12x-4x²-(3+x²)
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Question 1152529: Mr Singh sells his house for R585000. The total commission is 6,5% of the selling price of which the booker receives three quarters and the salesperson receives the rest. The amount that the salesperson receives ,is
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Question 1152789: Triangle 1 has an angle of 40° and 80°. Triangle 2 has an angle of 80°, and another angle a, a≠40°. Based on this information, Mark says the triangles are NOT SIMILAR. What value of a, in degrees, would disprove Mark′s claim?
°

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Question 1152871: The longer side of a rectangle is four times the length of the shorter sides. If the diagonal is 17 cm long, find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 1153355: what does y and z equal
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Question 1153355: what does y and z equal
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Question 1153355: what does y and z equal
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Question 1153355: what does y and z equal
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Question 1153485: Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve
A flagpole has a height of 16 yards. It will be supported by three cables, each of which is attached to the flagpole at a point of 4 yards below the top of the pole and attached to the ground at a point that is 9 yards from the base of the pole. find the total number of yards of cable that will be required.
Thank you again,
SYL
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Question 1153567: The lengths of two sides of a triangle of 8ft and 12ft. What are the possible lengths for a third side?
A) 3ft
B) 5ft
C) 21ft
D) 15ft
E) 18ft
F) 9ft
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Question 1153568: Triangle ABC is right tringle with two side lengths of 3 and an unknown angle measure with the theta symbol.
What is the measure of angle theta? Round to one decimal place.
Find the measure of BA (the hypotenuse). round to one decimal place.

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Question 1153802: What formular is used to calculate for the sides of triangles
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Question 1153802: What formular is used to calculate for the sides of triangles
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Question 1153802: What formular is used to calculate for the sides of triangles
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Question 1154032: Given a field
223
feet by
63
feet, how far is it to walk from one corner of the field to the opposite corner?
Answer: The distances is exactly
feet. (You don't need to simplify.)
How far is it to the closest tenth of a foot? Answer: The distance is approximately
feet.
I need help when I plug in my answer which is 241.3 feet it is incorrect not sure what I am doing wrong

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Question 1154093: The perimeter of parallelogram ABCD is 96 cm. AD is 6 cm more than twice AB. Find the lengths of all four sides of ABCD.
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Question 1154093: The perimeter of parallelogram ABCD is 96 cm. AD is 6 cm more than twice AB. Find the lengths of all four sides of ABCD.
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Question 1154527: how do you do c+b=a ?
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Question 1154893: The ladder is 60 meters long. It leans against a wall with one end on the ground 35 meters from the wall . The other end just reaches a windowsill . Calculate the height of the windowsill above the ground
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Question 1154894: How do I Determine which of the following side lengths for triangle ABC would form a right triangle and which would form a non-right triangle.
it is just 3 different numbers per choice I don't know how to do iy this is my last question 9/10 it is the Pythagorean Theorem
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Question 1154905: If the sides of a triangle are 20,40,and 80cm , is it a right triangle ?

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Question 1154905: If the sides of a triangle are 20,40,and 80cm , is it a right triangle ?

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Question 1154905: If the sides of a triangle are 20,40,and 80cm , is it a right triangle ?

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