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Question 262522: if the total distance from city A to city B to city C and back to city A is 1400 miles, and it is 600 miles between two cities that are furthest apart, what are the two distances between cities?
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Question 262894: A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 15 and a leg of length 8. What is the area of the triangle? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places
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Question 262988: One leg of a right triangle is two meters longer than twice the length of the other leg. The hypotenuse is eight meters longer than the shorter of the two legs. What is the perimeter of the triangle, in meters?
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Question 262989: A 25-foot ladder reaches 24 feet up the side of building. Then the top of the ladder slides down 4 feet. How many additional feet does the bottom of the ladder slide out from the base of the building?

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Question 264306: a 18-foot ladder is leaning against a house. the bottom of te ladder is 4 feet from the house. to the nearest tent of a foot. how high does the top of the ladder reach?
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Question 264720: Find the side or a triangle with a hypotenuse of 11, and one side of 9.
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Question 264838: find hypotenuse of the following triangles. and leave the answers in radical form? how do i do that?
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Question 265224: How to find square root of 3 using the Pythagorean theorem
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Question 265407: please show steps to solve: (1-x)� +(1/3)�=x�
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Question 265564: A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 25 and a leg of length 20. What is the length of the other leg? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 265865: Find angle 2. The measurements are 128.5 and 13
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Question 266509: A right triangle has sides of integer length and perimeter 2010 units. The length of the shortest side is equal to one-fifth of the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. What is the area of the triangle?
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Question 267116: The shortest side of a triangle is one half the length of the middle side, plus 2 cm. The longest side of the triangle is one and one-half times the length of the middle side, less 2 cm. The perimeter of the triangle is 60 cm. How long are each of the sides?

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Question 267117: The shortest side of a triangle is one half the length of the middle side, plus 2 cm. The longest side of the triangle is one and one-half times the length of the middle side, less 2 cm. The perimeter of the triangle is 60 cm. How long are each of the sides?
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Question 267232: The diagonal of a computer monitor is measured to be 17 inches. If the width of the monitor is 12 inches, find the height of the monitor to the nearest inch. what is the height ? i have to show all work... thanks for helping
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Question 267272: The screen on a computer monitor has a length of 15 inches and a width of 12 inches. What is the length of the diagonal to the nearest tenth of an inch?
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Question 268598: a 13-foot ladder is leaning against a house. if the base of the ladder is 5 feet from the house, how high up the side of the house will the ladder reach?
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Question 268694: I completely dont understand what your supposed to do if one of the sides of the right angle triangle is a decimal, or if the sides a and b are decimals.
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Question 269886: a castle has a drawbridge that can be rasied and lowered. When ther drawbridge is lowered, what angle does the chain form with the road leading up to the castle? (If its an 90 degree and 45 degree and a 45 degree)
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Question 269796: if one side of a triangle is 15 and the other side is 17 what is x
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Question 269898: how do u solve the pythagorean therom on a grid
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Question 269981: Find the length of the leg of this right triangle. Give an approximation to 3 decimal places.
the triangles sides are 35, 30, and a

a. 8.062 c. 46.098
b. 17.748 d. 18.028

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Question 270749: A rectangle has a width of 6 feet and a length of 8 feet. Find the length of the diagonal in feet.
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Question 270885: hi, please help me with this problem.....
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Question 271721: name the sets of -5/6
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Question 272016: Whats the square root of 205 rounded to the nearest degree
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Question 272150: how do you determine whether each triangle with sides of given lengths is a right triangle?
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Question 272159: a cube-shaped container has a volume of 3.5L. What is the side length of the container, to the nearest tenth of a centimeter?
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Question 273448: Ok, so I'v got this question. on The Pythagorean Theorem. There is a diagram that shows a broken post. one side of the post the left side or b2 is given as 2 and the bottom or c2 is given as 18 inches. I was woundering how to get a2 if c2 and b2 are already given?
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Question 274245: solve using the pythagorem theorem c=? a=10,b=24
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Question 274245: solve using the pythagorem theorem c=? a=10,b=24
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Question 274727: Find the measure of the diagonal of one face of a cube whose side measures 12 cm.

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Question 274879: The hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is 10 cm long, and the other two sides are x cm and x-2 cm. Find the lenghts of these two sides
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Question 275017: Pythagorean triplets represent a special relation that both satisfy the Pythagorean theorem and as well as another characteristic. It is this additional characteristic that I am especially looking for. There are several formulas that will produce Pythagorean triplets. I need to find at least one. I need at least 5 other examples of triplets, not including 3-4-5.

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Question 275108: What is another characteristic of Pythagorean theorem?
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Question 275711: How do i find the area of a 45�-45�-90� triangle with a 4-cm hypotenuse
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Question 275942: A=? B=32 C=39
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Question 276140: A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length c = 65 ft. Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of leg a when the length of leg b is 16, 25, 33, and 39 feet.
b = 16; a = ft
b = 25; a = ft
b = 33; a = ft
b = 39; a = ft
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Question 276703: The measures of the sides of a right triangle are those of a Pythagorean triple. If the measure of the shortest side is 17, what are the measures of the other two sides?
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Question 276769: A ladder is placed against the outside of a house at the roof line. The ladder is 10 feet long. The bottom of the ladder is plaed 3 feet from the house. What is the height of the side of the house? Round off answer to the nearest tenth if necessary
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