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Question 1153584:
A rectangle has a length 11 meters longer than twice the width. The perimeter
is 160 meters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
What is the first step to solving an applied problem involving a comparison?
A.
Select a quantity to be represented by a variable.
B.
Find the area.
C.
Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 1153585:
A cement walkway is to be poured. It consists of the two rectangles with
dimensions a quarter of a circle with radius 1 yards. Use pi equals 3.14

as an approximate value. (a) How many square yards will the walkway be? If

a painter paints it for $4.50 per square yard, how much will the painting cost?

A quarter of a circle has a vertical radius which is the width of a rectangle
with a width of 1 yard and a length of 10 yards and a horizontal radius
which is the width of rectangle with a width of 1 yard and a length of 3 yards.
(a) How many square yards will the walkway be?

sq yd (Round to the nearest hundredth.)

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Question 1153621: What will it cost to carpet a rectangular floor measuring 9 feet by 21 feet if the carpet costs $26.50 per square yard.
Please show formula steps.
Thank you in advance,
SYL
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Question 1153639: Given a rectangle with an area of 20 square units if the width is x units and the length is x+1 units what is the difference between the length and the width?

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Question 1153651: How to calculate the maximum area of rectangle give the fixed perimeter of 24.
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Question 1153651: How to calculate the maximum area of rectangle give the fixed perimeter of 24.
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Question 1153651: How to calculate the maximum area of rectangle give the fixed perimeter of 24.
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Question 1153669: Double the width of the rectangle is equal to 50m less than triple the length. Find the equation.
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Question 1153785: a rectangle has an area of 84 square feet. the width is x and the length is x+5. find the dimension of the rectangle.
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Question 1153785: a rectangle has an area of 84 square feet. the width is x and the length is x+5. find the dimension of the rectangle.
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Question 1153853: Find the area of the rectangle to the right.
A rectangle has a length measuring 28 miles and a width measuring (3 y plus 1) miles.
left parenthesis 3 y plus 1 right parenthesis miles
28 miles
The area of the rectangle is left parenthesis nothing right parenthesis

mi.
(Simplify your answer.)
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Question 1153988: Name the type of graph that represents this relationship
When x=4 the value of Y is 8 and the perimeter is 8+16=23
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Question 1153987: Name the type of graph that represents this relationship
When x=4t the value of Y is 8 and the perimeter is 8+16=23
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Question 1154087: The area of the rectangle is 2a^2+13a-24. If the length of the rectangle is given as (a+8), what is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 1154100: A rectangular parking lot has a perimeter of 874. The length is 8 more then twice the width, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1154162: 2/3 of 10
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Question 1154162: 2/3 of 10
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Question 1154293: Kyle framed his masterpiece
The painting by itself is a rectangle with length or 20 cm and width 16cm
The painting and frame together form a larger rectangle with length 25cm and width 20cm
Find the area of the frame assume no overlap between the frame and painting.
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Question 1154520: The length of a rectangle is three times its width, the perimeter of the rectangle is 24cm. Calculate the area.
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Question 1154601: The perimeter of a rectangular outdoor patio is 58 ft. The length is 35ft. greater than the width. What are the dimensions of the patio?
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Question 1154603: One side of an equilateral triangle has length (4x+7), another sides has length (3x + 8). Find the perimeter of a triangle. The definition a equilateral triangle may be useful to solve this problem. Be analytical
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Question 1154612: For a rectangle with area 361 to have the smallest perimeter, what dimensions should it have? (Enter the smaller value first.)
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Question 1154814: Knowing that 1 inch equals 2.54cm, find the area in square ft for (7.66cm + 14.3in) x (24.00mm)
Please help. Thank you!
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Question 1154814: Knowing that 1 inch equals 2.54cm, find the area in square ft for (7.66cm + 14.3in) x (24.00mm)
Please help. Thank you!
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Question 1154814: Knowing that 1 inch equals 2.54cm, find the area in square ft for (7.66cm + 14.3in) x (24.00mm)
Please help. Thank you!
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Question 1155172: The perimeter of a rectangle is 84cm.
Its shortest side has a length of 3cm.
State the length of the longest side.

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Question 1155172: The perimeter of a rectangle is 84cm.
Its shortest side has a length of 3cm.
State the length of the longest side.

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Question 1155786: Ahmed and Manu work in a sweet shop .During Eid, Ahmed and Manu charge RS 200 and RS 250 a day, respectively, to work in the kitchen. Their combined earnings during the Eid period was Rs. 3900. If, in total, Manu earned Rs. 1100 more than Ahmed, how many days did each one work for what payment did each one receive?
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Question 1155785: John makes a square tile with each side measuring 4cm . What is the length of its diagonal?
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Question 1155923: When the length of a rectangle is increased by 20% and the width increased by 10%, by what percent is the area increased?
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Question 1156142: The length of a rectangle is 4 centimeters less than its width. What are the dimensions of the rectangle if it’s area is 285 square centimeters.
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Question 1156196: how would i figure out this problem. Neil cut a square paper vertically to make two rectangle pieces. Each rectangle had a perimeter of 27 inches.How long is each side of the original square paper?
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Question 1156639: The length of a rectangle is 7 inches longer than it is wide. If the perimeter is 38 inches, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 1156641: The length of a rectangle is 7 inches longer than it is wide. If the perimeter is 38 inches, what are the dimensions of the rectangle? width? length?
answer can not be in mixed numbers

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Question 1156767: A rectangle has length 12 cm and breadth 8 cm. A second rectangle, geometrically similar to the first,
has adjacent sides 4 cm and cm long. Calculate the two possible values of x.
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Question 1156805: the area of a rectangle is 36 square centimeters. give all possible whole-numbers dimension of the rectangle.which rectangle has the greatest perimeter.

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Question 1157114: Casey wants to shrink a poster at Kinko’s. The poster is two feet by three feet. He wants to make it 1/9 of the
area of the original poster. What will be the dimensions in inches of the new poster?
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Question 1157113: Lilly is doubling the dimensions of her flower garden. If it took three bags of mulch to cover her smaller
garden last spring, how many bags will be needed to cover her enlarged garden?
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