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Question 1091346: Geometry Jill baked a rectangular cake for her brothers, John and Jerry. She planned to cut the cake in half and send an equal amount home with each brother. However, when she took the cake from the fridge, she saw that her son, Geometry Joe, had cut out a rectangular chunk and eaten it. How can she make a single straight cut through the cake that will guarantee each brother an equal amount? Jill has some string on hand, but no measuring tools. Also, she may not cut the cake through the middle, parallel to the cake's top surface. Each brother should receive an equal amount of the frosted top.
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Question 1091375: Show that point (0,-1),(6,7),(-2,3),(8,3) are vertics of rectangle
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Question 1091375: Show that point (0,-1),(6,7),(-2,3),(8,3) are vertics of rectangle
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Question 1091397: There is a narrow rectangular plot reserved for a school,in Mahuli village.The length and breadth of the plot are in the ratio 11:4.At the rate of Rs 100 per metre it will cost the village Panchayat Rs 75000 to fence the plot.what are the dimensions of the plot???
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Question 1091617: The diagonal of a rectangle measures�7√ 2�inches. If the width is 2 inches less than the length, then find the dimensions of the rectangle

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Question 1091661: The area of a rectangle is 24 square inches. If the length is 3 times the width, then find the dimensions of the rectangle. Round off your answers to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1091663: A positive real number is 4 more than another. If the sum of the squares of the two numbers is 72, find the numbers.
(If applicable, write your answers in the form p±qsqrt(r))
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Question 1091662: Evaluate: If the sides of a square measure 9sqrt(3) inches, then find the length of the diagonal.
(Write your answer in the square root form)
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Question 1091747: A rectangle has a length of 8 inches and an area of 64 square inches. What is the width?
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Question 1091828: How do I find 30% of a rectangle?
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Question 1091824: the width of a rectangle is 8 inches shorter than its length. the perimeter of the rectangle is 18 square cm. what are the lengths and width? which equation models the problem?
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Question 1092002: the perimeter of a rectangular parking lot is 276m if the length of the parking lot is 84m what is its width

2. The area of a rectangular pool is 6351m2 if the width of the pool is 73m what is its length
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Question 1092004: the perimeter of a rectangular parking lot is 276m if the length of the parking lot is 84m what is its width

The area of a rectangular pool is 6351m2 if the width of the pool is 73m what is its length
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Question 1092179: The dimension of a rectangle are such that it's length is 5 in. more than its width. If the length were doubled and if the width were decreased by 5 in. the area would be increased by 162 in^2. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 1092231: A book designer decided that the pages of a book should have 1-in. margins at the top and bottom and 0.5 in. margins on the sides. She further stipulated that each page should have an area of 50 in.2. Find a function in the variable x, giving the area.
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Question 1092247: A garden is in the shape of a square with a perimeter of
52
52 feet. The garden is surrounded by two fences. One fence is around the perimeter of the garden, whereas the second fence is
3
3 feet from the first fence on the outside. If the material used to build the two fences is
$
1.32
$1.32 per foot, what was the total cost of the fences?
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Question 1093055: a field is a rectangle with a perimeter 1020 feet.The length is 100 feet more than the width.find the width and length of the rectangular field.

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Question 1093310: The perimeter is 100cm, the length is 5x and the width is 2x - 6 what does x equal?
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Question 1093507: A tree that was 30meters high was broken so that the broken part was 7 times the length of the part that was left standing. Find the lenghth of each part
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Question 1093539: The perimeter of a rectangle is 304 cm the length is 40 cm longer than the width what is the length and width

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Question 1093669: Find the area of square which has same perimeter as a rectangle of length 64 meter and 4 times its breadth.
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Question 1093787: perimeter of the playing field is 342. the length is 3 less than double the width. What are the dimensions
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Question 1093787: perimeter of the playing field is 342. the length is 3 less than double the width. What are the dimensions
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Question 1093889: A rectangle has perimeter 40 feet and an area of 84 square feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle assuming the width is smaller than the length.
Thank you for any help. Please try to make things as clear as you possible can. Again thank you!!! I really appreciate it!
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Question 1093890: A box with a square base and no top is to be made from a square piece of carboard by cutting 8 in. squares from each corner and folding up the sides. The box is to hold 20000 in cubed. How big a piece of cardboard is needed?
Please try to make things as clear as possible. Thank you for any help!!! I really appreciate it!!
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Question 1094080: if 6.67 cubic metres of mulch is to go in a garden bed of 48.9 metres squared calculate the depth of the mulch
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Question 1094136: The square rug shown below has a side lengths of (3x-11). To fix the rug you will need to cut out a rectangle with sides of (2x+4) and x. What will be the area of the shaded region once the rectangle is removed?
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Question 1094268: the length of a rectangle is 3/2 units greater than its width. if the width is w, which expression gives the perimeter of the rectangle in terms of its width?
A:4w + 3.
B: 7/2w -3.
C: 5w.
D:6w + 4.
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Question 1094699: a rectangular block of iron has to be cast so that its length is three times its width and its volume is a maximun,.find the dimensions of the block if its total surface area is not to exceed 1800 square cm
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Question 1094933: A garden is in the shape of a square with a perimeter of 44 feet. The garden is surrounded by two fences. One fence is around the perimeter of the garden, whereas the second fence is 2 feet from the first fence on the outside. If the material used to build the two fences is $1.46 per foot, what was the total cost of the fences?
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Question 1095155: The length of one side of a rectangle as 6cm and diagonal as 10cm. What is its width? What theorem we apply to find it?
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Question 1095185: Please. Answer this question for me.A rectangle is 25 cm long.The perimeter is 84 cm.What is width of the rectangle?
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Question 1095272: The perimeter of a rectangle is 86m if one side is 16m what is the other side?
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Question 1095575: The area of a rectangular field is 1000 yd2.Two parallel sides are fenced with aluminum at $15/yd. One of the remaining sides is fenced with steel at $10/yd, and all but 10 yd of the remaining side is fenced with wood costing $5/yd.The remaining 10 yd are left unfenced.The total cost of the fencing is $1525. a. What is the length of the side fenced with steel? b. What is the length of each side fenced with aluminum?

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Question 1095647: The length of a rectangle is three less than twice the width. If the perimeter of the recatangle is 84 meters, what are the length and width?
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Question 1095644: the area of a rectangle computer screen is 5x^2 +6x +1 the width of the screen is x + 1 find the length of the screen
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Question 1096212: What is the width of the rectangle if the perimeter is 30m and the length is 7m?
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Question 1096264: 1. A picture 6 dm more than its width is to be framed with 3 dm border. The total area of the border is 288 square dm. What are the dimensions of the pictures?
2. The area of a 12mx8m rectangle is to be doubled. By what equal amount must each dimensions be increased?
3. The product of two consecutive integers is 210. What are the numbers
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Question 1096180: The width of a rectangle is 5 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 194 cm^2, what is the length of the diagonal?
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Question 1096315: the rectangle has an area of 252 sq ft. side lengths are 21-5x and 7. find the value of x
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Question 1096315: the rectangle has an area of 252 sq ft. side lengths are 21-5x and 7. find the value of x
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Question 1096731: The perimeter of a rectangle is 62ft. Describe the possible lengths of a side if the area of the rectangle is not to exceed 184 square feet
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