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Question 355109: Two lines intersect at a point and formed two non-adjacent angles whose measures are (4x-95)and (2x+21)degrees.What is the value of each angle?

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Question 355111: If two sides of a triangle measure 23cm and 7cm,which of the following can be measure of third sides?
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Question 356089: What do I do if I am given the hypotenuse and need to find the length of a leg? And reverse?
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Question 356089: What do I do if I am given the hypotenuse and need to find the length of a leg? And reverse?
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Question 356705: Q1- If the largest member of a pythagorean triplet is 65,then what is the smallest member of that triplet?
Q2- If in a isosceles right angled triangle ,the length of the hypotenuse is 82 cm then then what is the area of the triangle?
Q3- what is the greatest six digit and the smallest six digit perfect square?
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Question 357331: A plane needs to fly to a town located 200 km away in the direction 50 degrees east of north. There is westerly wind blowing at 60 km/h.
Determine the plane's airspeed and the direction in the degrees east of north, so it can fly directly to the town in 1/2 hour.
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Question 357675: find the exact length of the side of a square which has a diagonal of 12 feet
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Question 357922: One leg of a right triangle is 4m less than the hypotenuse. The other leg is 2m less than the hypotenuse. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
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Question 358070: Is a triangle with sides of 2m,3m,and 4m a right triangle?

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Question 358391: If the length of one of the sides of a right triangle is twice that of the other and the hypotenuse is 5 units, what is the area of the triangle?
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Question 358520: Right angle triangle. Hypotenuse is 7".
Aspect ratio is 16:9 (1.78:1)
a^2 * b^2 = c^2 � �
a=1.78x � b=x � c=7
(1.78x)^2 * x^2 = 7^2
(1.78x)^2 * x^2�= 49
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Question 359915: I dont understand what to do, the way everything is explained seems to complicated
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Question 360165: One leg of a right triangle is 1 in. shorter than the other leg. The hypotenuse is 4 in. longer than the shorter side. Find the length of each side.
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Question 360358: how can i do the Pythagorean theorem
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Question 360358: how can i do the Pythagorean theorem
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Question 360567: I need to measure the height of a building using the pythagorean theorem, using shadows and a fence or a post and measure the shadows. I understand what I have to do but I can't figure out how to get my answer. I can get the measurements of the post and it's shadow but the building all I have is the length of the shadow now what do I do?
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Question 361311: The longer leg of a right triangle is 35 inches longer than the other leg. Find the length of the two legs if the hypotenuse is 65 inches.
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Question 361292: a painter leans a 20 foot ladder against a wall. The top of the ladder is 16 feet above the ground. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the wall?
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Question 361496: express in radical form the length of the hypothenuse of a right triangle whose legs have lengths of 1 and 3
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Question 361577: what is the slope of y=2x+3

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Question 361807: You are planning to put a new digital flat TV on a wall that is 12 ft long and 9 ft
high. The digital TV has a diagonal of 72 inches. 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?
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Question 362575: An equilateral triangle has an altitude length of 36 feet. Determine the length of a side of a triangle.
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Question 362897: what is the height of a 15inch tv when the width is 12inches.
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Question 362964: if you have the hypotenuse for a isosceles right triangle how do you find the legs?
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Question 362890: how is a triangle with sides of 3 miles, 6 miles, and 8 miles not a right triangle ?
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Question 363041: Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve: If the two legs of a triangle are a = 5 and b = 12, find the length of the hypotenuse. c =
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Question 362887: determine whether a triangle with sides of 3 miles, miles, and 8 miles is a right triangle. Explain .
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Question 364291: What is the slope of a binomial 2x+3?
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Question 364647: √2 cm √3 cm √5cm
Can the measures represent the sides of a right triangle?
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Question 365474: what is the square root of 71 to the nearest hundredth?
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Question 358197: how do you solve the pythagorean theorem
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Question 366070: hypotenuse is 2.65m in a right angle triangle. Neither leg is given a length but we know that the legs are the same length. How would I solve this?
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Question 366342: A dead tree was struck by lightning, causing it to fall over at a point 14 feet up from the base of the tree. If the original height of the tree was approximately 31 feet, what is the distance (along the ground) from the top of the tree to the base of the trunk?
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Question 366930: In a right triangle one leg is 9 cm less than the hypotenuse. The other leg is 2 cm less than the hypotenuse. How do I find the length of each side?
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Question 367266: Find the lengths of the sides of the triangles: sides are x and x+1 and the hypotenuse is x+4. So I end up getting x^2 -6x-15= 0 but I don't know how to factor this. What am I doing wrong?
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Question 367760: The lengths of the sides of a right triangle are consecutive integers. Find the lengths of the three sides. (I know the answer is 3, 4, and 5 but how do I show the work?)
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Question 367806: what if u have the hpothenuse side and u r to find a and b what do u do.
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Question 367871: what is the answer to leg:15m hypotenuse:17m leg:
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Question 367873: what is the answer to leg 12in. hypotenuse:15 in leg
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Question 368651: ONE LEG IS 5 THE HYPOTENUSE IS 7 AND THE OTHER LEG IS 2X-2 WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE VALUES OF X
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Question 368728: One leg of a right triangle is 3 cm longer than the other leg. The length of the hyptenuse is 10 cm. Find the length of each side.
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Question 368727: One leg of a right triangle is 3 cm longer than the other leg. The length of the hyptenuse is 10 cm. Find the length of each side.
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