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Question 231846: Two vertical poles of lengths 6 feet and 8 feet stand 10 feet apart. a cable reaches from the top of one pole to some peoint of the ground between the poles then to the top of the other pole. where should this point be located to use 18 feet of cable?
could you explain how to do this for me?
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Question 232909: The area in square meters for a triangular 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?
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Question 233396: The difference between the hypotenuse and the other two sides of a right triangle are respectively 8feet and 4 feet. the perimeter of the triangle is
a) 48 b0 36 c) 50 d) 37 e) none

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Question 233825: What type of triangle has the lengths of 14, 48, 50
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Question 233829: What type of triangle has the lengths of 6, 7, 9
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Question 233852: a utility pole breaks and falls. nine feet of the pole remains standing ant the top of the pole lands 12 feet from the base forming a right triangle. find the original height of the utility pole.
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Question 233828: What type of triangle has the lengths of 6, 7, 9
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Question 234204: a women travels one mile due north, then two miles due east, then three miles due north again, and then once more east for 4 miles. how far is she from her starting point? (it is less than 5+ square root 5 miles.
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Question 234608: If you know that two legs of a right triangle are 8 and 12 units long, what is the triangle's area? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 234990: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of lengths 5 and 12. If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 236398: The length of a rectangular floor is 1m less than twice its width. if a diagnol of the rectangle is 17m, find the length and width of the floor.
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Question 237118: I was wondering if in the theorum of a2 + b2 = c2 if you can designate all the values as 1 so that the equation would read 1 squared + 1 squared = 1 squared? If you can not do this, I was wondering if you could explain to me why that is? Thank you!
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Question 237244: The perimeter of a right, isosceles triangle is 2 + square root (2)
Find its area. Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Question 237948: The guy wire on a TV antenna is 1 m longer than the height of the antenna. If the guy wire is anchored 3 m from the foot of the antenna, how tall is the antenna?

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Question 238446: the length of the diagonal of a square is 80 inches. find the exact dimensions of the square?
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Question 238487: height-10cm and base-8cm and what is the hypotenuse
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Question 238643: 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 238960: The sum of the squares of the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle is 300 cm2. How many cm are in the length of the hypotenuse? Express you answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 239204: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is three times the length of one of the legs. the length of the other leg is the square root of 32 ft. find the leg and the hypotenuse.
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Question 239597: Hey i need help solving this one problem:
The photograph shows the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt. Each side of its square base is about 214 meters long. Each triangular side is an isosceles triangle with a height of about 179 meters. What is the area of one side of the pyramid?
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Question 240244: if the foot of a 13-meter ladder is placed 6 meters from the base of a building, how high up the building will the ladder reach?

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Question 240183: I think this word problem belongs in this section - can picture the triangle in the word problem, but other than that I am stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Elizabeth is flying a kite. She let out 80 feet of string and attached the string to a stake in the ground. The kite is now directly above her brother Mike, who is 32 feet away from Elizabeth. Find the height of the kite to the nearest foot.
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Question 240504: You are planning on putting a new digital TV on a wall that is 12 feet long and 9 feet high. The digital TV has a diagonal of 72in. The length of the TV is twice the width of the TV. How much of the wall will still need to be decorated around the TV?
We have tried to input doubling the length. We used the numbers 48 and 24. But when we put the numbers into the therom, they did not match up.
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Question 240599: Find the length of each hypotenuse.
(Legs)^2+(legs)^2=hypotenuse^2
(39)^2+(24)^2=x^2
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Question 240298: A baseball diamond is a square with 90 foot sides. What is the length from 3rd base to 1st base? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 241197: Can someone please tell me how to find the dimensions of a box that has a volume of 504 cubic inches and its sides measure x, x+1 and x+2. Much appreciated!
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Question 241255: Please help me find the value of X??

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Question 241311: 1. one leg of a right triangle is 20 cm and the hypotenuse is 10 cm longer than the other leg. find the length of the hypotenuse.
2. the sides of a triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units. if each side is doubled, by how many square units will the area of the triangle increase?
1 Let the hyp = c and the other 2 sides a and b
x^2= a^2 + b^2
x^2+20^2 = (x+10)^2
x^2 +400 = x^2 +20x+100
20x=300
X=15 ans
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Question 241307: The dimensions of a triangle are 13, 13, and 24. What is the area in square units of this triangle?
A) 30 B) 60 C) 90 D) 156 E) 312
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Question 241455: If the length of the shorter side of a 45-45-90 triangle is x, find the length of the hypotenuse, in terms of x.
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Question 241456: At what angle, or slope in degrees will the hypotenus of this triangle ly?
The vertical leg measures 29"
The hypotnuse measures 63"
One angle of the trianlge is 90 degree
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Question 241321: the sides of a triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units. if each side is doubled, by how many square units will the area of the triangle increase?
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Question 242607: Right triangle ABC has one leg of length 6 cm, one leg of
length 8 cm and a right angle at A. A square has one side on
the hypotenuse of triangle ABC and a vertex on each of the two
legs of triangle ABC. What is
the length of one side of the
square? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

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Question 242965: The sides of a right triangle have lengths x � y, x, x + y, where x>y>0.
Find the ratio of x : y.

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Question 243274: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 24 feet long. the lenght of one leg is 14 feet more than the other what is its length
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Question 243274: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 24 feet long. the lenght of one leg is 14 feet more than the other what is its length
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Question 243575: Suppose a right triangle has two legs, one of length 5 and the other of length 3. What is the length of the hypotenuse? Please show work.
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Question 244122: one leg of a right triangle measures 3, and the hypotenuse measures 6. how long is the other leg.
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Question 244969: use the pythagorean theorem to find the indicated quantity. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
14^2 = 5^2 + a^2
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Question 244323: I don't know how to solve a problem like this
9^2 + b^2 = 8^2
How do i solve for the b? Do i take the square root of c? or do i square it?
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Question 244967: use the pythagorean theorem to find the indicated quantity. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
c^2 = 15^2 + 20^2
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