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Question 161189: I am not certain if I need to use the a^ +b^ =c and then use a radical expression to reduce.
One side of a rectangular stage is
2 meters longer than the other. If the diagonal is 10 meters,
then what are the lengths of the sides?
Thank you,
Tracy

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Question 161403: One side of a rectangular stage is 2 meters longer than the other. If the diagonal is 10 meters, then what are the lengths of the sides?
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Question 161479: Area of a sail.
The area in square meters for a triangular sail is given as
a.) Find
b.) If the height of the sail is meters, then what is the length of the base of the sail?
How would I set this up and work it?
Thank you,
Tracy
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Question 162719: a mover must put a circular mirror two meters in diameter through a one meter by 1.8 meter doorway. find the lenght of the diagonal of the doorway. will the mirror fit?

please help:)!
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Question 164280: 10^2+x^2=50^2
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Question 164372: Can there be a right triangle with sides of length 1, 2 and 3? Why or why not? Can yo find a right triangle whose side lengths are consecutive natural numbers?

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Question 164365: If a right triangle has legs of length 1 and x what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 164371: Suppose you know the base of a rectangle has a length of 4 inches and a diagonal has a length of 5 inches. Find the area of the rectangle?

I'm clueless on this one. I just cant seem to get this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Question 164539: a radio tower located 18 miles north of a straight highway has a transmission radius of 33 miles. find x the length of the section of highway that is within the transmission radius of the tower.

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Question 166528: Use the pythagorean theorem then find the exact length of the hypotenuse in the following right triangle
5 and 7
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Question 166999: A boulder 10m high is on edge of a cliff. From a point on the ground 200 ft away from the foot of the cliff, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the boulder are 60 degrees and 40 degrees respectively. How high is the cliff?
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Question 168041: The screen size of a t.V is the length of the diagonal across the screen. The height of the screen = 16inches. The diagonal of the screen is 32inches. How to i find out the width?
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Question 168429: how would you find 8 square root of 3
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Question 168734: What is the hypotenuse of 30-60-14 ?
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Question 168834: i cant figure out how to get the answer for hypotenuse i understand that you have to add the two numbers together but how to get that finale answer
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Question 169528: If I walk 1/2 mile north and 1 1/2 mile east how many miles can I walk back with taking two miles to return. I need to know the shorter distance back to my main starting point.
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Question 169783: Find the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 5 inches and 10 inches.
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Question 169783: Find the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 5 inches and 10 inches.
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Question 169890: A man 6 feet tall has a shadow 7.8 feet long while standing next to a flagpole that has a shadow measuring 195 feet. How tall is the flagpole?
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Question 169913: Boat A was 10 km west of Boat B. Boat A travelled directly north to shore. Boat B travelled 26 km directly to the same point on the shore. Boat A's trip was how many kilometres shorter?
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Question 169626: If angle AC is Parallel to angle EF ,mEFC=113, m angle BEF is 71 find m angle EAC .
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Question 170537: A square is inscribed in a circle whose diameter is 10 cm. Find the length of the side of the square.
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Question 170538: Can an umbrella 28 cm long be packed in the bottom of a suitcase 24 cm long by 16 cm?
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Question 170729: A builder is about to cut rafters for a roof of a cottage. If the width of the cottage is 24 m and he wants a roof 5 m high with an overhanging eave 1 m, find the total length of the rafter.
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Question 170991: triangle abc has a right angle at B.
AB=9cm. BC=12cm
find the length of AC
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Question 170991: triangle abc has a right angle at B.
AB=9cm. BC=12cm
find the length of AC
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Question 171038: A classroom is 20 m long, 12 m wide, and 7 m high. Find the distance from the northeast corner of the room to the southwest corner of the room at floor level.
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Question 171507: Given the triange with a hypotenuse = 20 , and one leg = X + 8 , and the other leg = X
Approximate to the nearest foot how many feet of walking distance a person saves by cutting across the lawn instead of walking on the side walk.
I know you use pythagorean theorem to get {2x^2 + 16x -336 = 0}
then simplify and get 2(x^2 + 8x - 168) = 0
After this you use quadratic equation and get -4 +- ^736 over 1
I dont know how to get the whole number after this
Thanks

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Question 171845: If the long les of a 30-60-90 triangle is 5. What is the short leg and the hypotenouse?
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Question 172190: suppose you know the base of a rectangle has a length of 4 inches and a diagonal has a length of 5 inches. Find the area of the rectangle
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Question 172315: If the the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 13 then what are it's legs?
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Question 172551: a=3, b=4, c=?
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Question 172690: Using the Pythagorean theorem:
Two jets pass directly over each other at 10am. One jet is traveling south at 480 km/h the other is traveling east at 900 km/h. How far are the two jets apart 2 hours later?
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Question 173193: In a 30-60-90 triangle, the short leg is 8 m. Find the length of the long leg.
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Question 173498: A garden lot is in the shape of a right triangle. The hypothenuse is 30 yds. longer than twice the length of the shorter leg, and the longer leg is 20 yds. longer than twice the length of the shorter leg. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 173712: Janice bought a 13 foot inflatable snowman to display in her yard during the holidays. She bought a 22 foot rope to anchor to the top of the snowman. How far away from the base of the snowman should she stake the other end of the rope so the snowman doesn't lean?
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Question 174131: Area of a sail: The area in square meters for a triangular square sail is given by A(x)=x^2+5x+6. Find A(5) If the height of the sail is x+3 meters, then what is the length of the base of the sail?
I plugged in 5 in the x variables. A(5)= 5^2 + 5(5) +6 which will equal A(5)=56
Thus, the answer that I got was 11.2 meters. The second question is where I think I am off track. Starting with a^2+b^2=c^2 Do I plug in the 5? I was orignially using the 5 as the hypotenuse. My answers are coming out crazy. I have worked this problem for 2 hours now. I am ready to throw my computer.
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Question 174158: One side of a rectangular stage is 2 meters longe than the other. If the diagonal is 10 meters, then what are the lengths of the sides?
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Question 174426: c=x+8
b=x
a=x+7
find x
i tried everything i could..i cudnt find any solutions and it drove me crazy...help would be soo appreciated.
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