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Question 214502: using pythsgorean theorem to find the distance, to the nearest tenth between points P(-10,1) and Q(5,5)?
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Question 214502: using pythsgorean theorem to find the distance, to the nearest tenth between points P(-10,1) and Q(5,5)?
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Question 214697: A 45 - 45 - 90 triangle has a hypotenuse of length 15 units. What is the length of one of the legs? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 215087: a triangle has side lengths 1.5cm, 2cm, and 2.5cm. Is the triangle a right, acute, or obtuse triangle?
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Question 215277: The perimeter of the cover of an address book is 14 inches, and the diagonal measures 5 inches. What are the length and width of the cover?
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Question 166688: I'm not exactly sure how to apply the formula. Thnk you for your site and any help!
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Question 216286: what is the missing side if 8 and 12 are legs?
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Question 216502: a tv tower is 20.5m high.Wire braces attached 4.5m from the top of the tower are 8m aways from the base.Find the length of each wire brace.illustrate.
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Question 216504: Rectangle ABCD has dimensions of 7 units by 5 units.Find the length of each of its diagonals.

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Question 216505: a carpenter wants to build a diagonal brace for a gate that is 2mwide and 3 m high.Find the length of the brace to the nearest tenth of meter.
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Question 217105: I wanna know what the size of the largest square is that could fit in a circle with a diameter of 1".
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Question 217229: In a certain right triangle, the two sides that are perpendicular to each other are 5.7m and 5.7m long. What is the tangent of the angle for which 5.7m is the opposite side?
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Question 218293: the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 12 yards. the other two sides are equal in length .find the length of each side to the nearest tenth of a yard.
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Question 218481: i do not really get pythagoream and theorem. what do u do with the formula?
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Question 219011: 1.)A painter leans a 10-foot ladder against the house she is to paint. The foot of the ladder is 3 feet from the house. How far above the ground does the ladder reach?
2.)A pleasure boat on Narragansett Bay sails 3 miles due north, 4 miles due east, and then 5 miles due south. How far is the boat from its starting point?
Give these answers both as an exact answer in the most simplified form and as decimals rounded to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 220207: how do you classify a triangle by its anle ?
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Question 221845: How do you calculate the distance diagonally of a rectangle when the width is 160 ft and the length is 120 ft? I have looked everywhere for this calcualtion and cannot find anything. Please help! Thank you!
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Question 222839: One leg of a right triangle is half as long as the other. What is the length of the hypotenuse as a function of the shorter leg?
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Question 222926: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 1 cm longer than the longer leg. The shorter leg is 7cm shorter than the longer leg. Find the length of the longer leg of the triangle
leg^2+leg^2=hypotenuse^2.
The legs of the trangle are x and x-7. The hypotenuse is x+1.
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Question 223128: Find the area of a triangle with a base of 8 yd and a height of 19.1 yd.
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Question 223129: a/-7 - 7 = 5
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Question 223130: a/-7 - 7 = 5
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Question 223304: give the next number in the pattern 17 23 15 21 13 19
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Question 223304: give the next number in the pattern 17 23 15 21 13 19
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Question 223327: solve 31+25x=7x-14+3x
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Question 223342: the value of 2x is always greateer than the value of x
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Question 223691: can you help me describe the pattern of theses numbers {1,13,37,73,121,181,253,337} in an equation only ussing the nth term
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Question 224126: Ferdy uses a guy wire to support a young tree. He attaches it to a point0.6 m up the tree trunk. The wire is 10 m long. How far away from the trunk will the wire reach?
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Question 224125: A ladder, whish measures 14 m positioned against the wall of a house. If the top of the ladder is 6 m above the base of the wall, how far is the bottom of the ladder placed from the base of the wall?
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Question 224224: A rectangle and a triangle have equal areas. The length of the rectangle is 12 inches, and its width is 8 inches. If the base of the triangle is 32 inches, what is the length, in inches, of the altitude drawn to the base?

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Question 224110: The volume of a sphere with radius r is given by the formula V=(4/3)πr^3 and the surface area is given by the formula S=4πr^2 . If S=100π, find V. (use π = 3.14.)
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Question 226386: What are the dimensions of a right angle triangle that is similar to the 3 -4 -5
Right-angled triangle, and that has an area four times as large?
a.4-5-7 b. 4-12-13 c. 6-8-10 d. 9-12-15 e. 12-16-20

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Question 228542: A boy is two meters tall. about how tall is the boy in feet and inches? 1 meter=39inches.
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Question 228968: What is the length of the diagonal of a rectangular picture whose sides are 12 inches and 17 inches?
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Question 229202: what is a=?,b=15,=31
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Question 230116: a tv tower is 20.5m high . wire braces attached to the tower are 8m away from the base.find the length of each wire brace. illustrate

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Question 230138: Is this equation possible 0=3x^2+12x-135? And Factor it.
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Question 230391: does a right triangle with the dimensions of 8cm,9cm,and 12cm exist?
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Question 230390: Does a right triangl with the dimensions of 8cm,9cm,and 12cm exist?

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Question 230396: Are the numbers 8,15,and 19 a pothagorean triple?

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Question 231199: One leg of a right triangle is 2 m longer than the other leg. The length of the hypotenuse is 10 m.Find the lenght of each side.
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Question 231199: One leg of a right triangle is 2 m longer than the other leg. The length of the hypotenuse is 10 m.Find the lenght of each side.
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Question 231205: the number N, in millions, of broadband cable and DSL subscribers in the United States t yearsafter 1998 cane be approximated by
N = 0.3t^2 + 0.6t
When will there be 36 million brodband cable and DSL subscribers?
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Question 231776: I am having trouble solving this problem:
Find the distance between the points A(2,-1) and B(-4,2).
I came up with the answer of 3 which is incorrect, please help. Thanks.
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