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Question 182442: Graph the pair of numbers on a number line.
sqaure root of 64 over 121 =?= 8 over 11

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Question 182793: The hubble telescope is orbiting earth 600 km above earth's surface. Earth's radius is about 6370km. use pythagoream theorem to find the disance x from thee telescope to earth's horizon. round to the nearest km. I no the answer is 2830km. I need to no how to get that answer
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Question 183175: square root of y4
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Question 183471: Ok so im tryingto get my ged and i got a book The ged for dummies.
i suck at math and im in the math part its asking
A right triangel has a hypotenuse of 5 feet and one side thats 36 inches. What is the length of the other sidein feet.
i have never donethisbefor dont understaind how to find the answer please help
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Question 183652: A 25-foot ladder is placed against a building. The bottom of the ladder is 7 feet from the building. If the top of the ladder slips down 4 feet, how many feet will the bottom slide out? (It is not 4 feet).
7 squared+x squared=25 squared
49+x squared=625
x squared=576
x=24
Then what?
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Question 183991: It gave me triangles to see if they had right angles. There were 4 of them. Then it asked me to find the sum be of the non-right angles and what i noticed. Then it asked me if i were to draw a different right triangle, what would the sum be of it's non-right angles and how i know?
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Question 184271: A lot is in the shape of a right triangle. The shorter leg measures 120 m. The hypotenuse is 40 m longer than the length of the longer leg. How long is the longer leg?

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Question 186552: Consecutive bases of a square-shaped baseball diamond are 90 feet apart. Find the exact distance from first base diagonally across the diamond to third base. Then approximate this distance.
So far I tried:
90 squared + 90 squared = c squared
8100 + 8100 = c squared
16200 = c squared
when taken by the square root I get
9 square root of 2 = c
approximate distance is 34 feet
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Question 186645: what is half the circle of a triangle of 4,5 and 3?

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Question 186672: I need a day-to-day example using the Pythagorean theorem. I cant come up with anything. My mind is completely blank. Can anyone help me??? Thank you!
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Question 187647: Woody Woodpecker picked at a 17m wooden pole until it cracked and the upper part fell, reaching a point on the ground 10m from the foot of the pole. Since the pole had not completely broken off, Woody pecked away where it had cracked. How far was Woody above the ground?
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Question 187811: 4. the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 5m long.One leg is 1m longer than the other. Find the lengths of the legs.(SET UP AND SOLVE)
My teacher is so complicated...I don't even know where to start with this.
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Question 187813: 4. the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 5m long.One leg is 1m longer than the other. Find the lengths of the legs.(SET UP AND SOLVE)
I thought I submitted this bt it said did not enter a textbook or something....Anyway, I am very confused by this problem
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Question 188306: ok there is a square that has a diagnol through it and the diagnal is x the line makes the square a triangle so then one triangle has sides of 3 and 5 it is asking what does x equal help
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Question 188733: Find the fifth term of the expansion of (x +3)^9
I worked it out to =10206x^5.
Am I correct?
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Question 189251: There is a ladder 12' and it is leaning on a wall and the bottom of the ladder is 4ft. What is the hypotenuse?
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Question 189251: There is a ladder 12' and it is leaning on a wall and the bottom of the ladder is 4ft. What is the hypotenuse?
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Question 189297: 5b+12c=a?
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Question 189891: the directions say "Find the value of x. Simplify answers that are radicals." They give me a right triangle and tell me that one of the legs is 5, the hypotonuse is 11 and the altitude is 3. They want me to find the other leg with is labeled x. I didn't think you could find the x unless you knew both of the parts of the hypotenuse?
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Question 189888: x^2 + 15^2 = 5 times the square root of 13 ^2
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Question 190170: Hi, I really need help with the question below. It is from a homework handout so I do not have an ISBN. Thanks for your help.

A ladder 15 feet long leans against a wall. The top of the ladder reaches a height that is 3 feet more than twice the distance from the base of the ladder to the wall. Draw and label a diagram. How high up the wall does this ladder reach?
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Question 190258: I also got this one wrong, can someone show me the correct way to solve this, please?
Consider the formula n(A U B) = n(A) + n(B) - n(A ∩ B).

(a) Show that this relation holds for A = {1, 2, 3, 4} and B= {2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
(b) Make up your own two sets A and B, each consisting of at least six elements. Using these two sets, show that the relationship above holds.
(c ) Use a Venn diagram and explain why the relation holds for any two sets A and B.

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Question 190973: Directions: Make a sketch for each problem(optional). Approximathe each square root to the nearest hundreth. A calculator may be helpful.
Problem: A right triangle has sides whose length in feet are consecutive even integers. Determine the length of each side.
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Question 162085: a=3
b=13
c=_____
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Question 191243: This is a problem tha was on a quiz. I missed it totally. Can someone please help me? I am not sure where to place a question with sets and subsets? Is it in Algebra II or Geometry?
A drug company is considering manufacturing a new product that has two different flavors, orange and cherry. They surveyed 150 people. The results are as follows:
75 liked cherry flavor
94 liked orange flavor
22 liked both flavors.
Construct a Venn diagram and answer the following:
a) How many liked only orange flavor?
b) How many liked only cherry flavor?
c) How many liked either one or the other or both?
d) How many liked neither?

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Question 192351: I had this question on a test and missed it.
It says;
Use the converse of the pythagorean Theorem to find the triples that could be the sides of a right triangle from the given choices.
for the number one the choices are
a.12,16,18
b.15,17,4
c.40,399,400
d.12,16,20
and for the second problem the are
a.40,75,85
b.60,80,90
c.13,12,12
d.51,49,7
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Question 192709: PQRS is a rectangle in which PQ=9 cm and PS=6 cm.Tis a point on PQ such that PT=7 cm and RV is the perpendiculer from R to ST. Calculate ST and RV?
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Question 193086: In right triangle abc, m angle b = 90, ab=5, and ac = 12. find bc. round to the nearest tenth. i used the pythagorem theorem. my answer in 2.6
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Question 193132: Liz is flying a kite. she let out 80 ft of string and attached the string to a stake in the ground, the kite is now directly above her brother mike who is 32 ft away from liz. find the height of the kite to the nearest foot.

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Question 193186: I looked at the solution for question #193175:
A diagonal walk through a rectangular rose garden 18 meters by 24 meters can be built at $12 per linear meter. How much will the walk cost?
But I was unable to figure out what ankor was talking about. I am not as versed in using a calculator as some are and did not understand. Can someone help please.

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Question 193878:
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Question 194408: Find the length of X The hypotenuse in the triangle. this is a right angle and the 12 is on the side that is straight down and 9 on the bottom. thank you again
2. The base of a ladder is 6 feet away from the wall. to the nearest tenth of a foot, how high is the top of the ladder from the floor?

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Question 194940: Find the length of a diagonal of a square if its area is 162 square feet.

I don't even know how to set this problem up. Thanks for the help.
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Question 195288: find the unknown length of the right triangle ; base is x; height is x+2 and the hypotenuse is 10 using the pythagorean theorem
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Question 195313: How to you square 5 square root of 5, many thanks.
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Question 196341: Kaleb was on a hike with his boy scout troop. They hiked 3 kilometers due east and then 4 kilometers due north. To get to the spot where they were camping, they hiked 2 kilometers southwest toward where they started. How many kilometers did they have to hike in the morning to get back to where they started?
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Question 197153: Please help me answer this question: a=5,c=10
use a^2+b^2=c^2
In the directions it says to find the missing length of the right triangle if a and b are the lengths of the legs and c is the length of the hypotenuse. I tried to work out the problem but didn't get a perfect square, instead I got the square root of 75 as my answer.
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Question 197896: c=5%9xf-32 how do i rearrange this to make f the subject
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Question 198584: How do you solve this problem?
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Question 198665: find the distance of the points (-2-3)+(-3-3)
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Question 198729: What is the perimeter of a square whose diagonal measures 12 inches?
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Question 198781: I need to find out how to find the length of a diagonal of a square.
If I knew the length and width of the square. such a length=40 ft. and width=60 ft.
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