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Question 287547: the official ratio of width to length for the US flag is 10 to 19. If a flag is 45 inches wide, what is the length of the flag? thanks for your help
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Question 287159: among all rectangles having a perimeter of 25 m, find the dimensions of the one with the largest area. _____ m by ______ m

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Question 287687: how do i find the area of a rectangle???
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Question 287554: Ricardo wants to design a rectangular window whose perimeter is 84 inches. What dimensions will maximize the area?
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Question 287524: The perimeter of a rectangle is 34 feet, the diagonal is 13 feet. What is the length and the width?
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Question 287752: A rectangle is 15 yards long and 10 feet wide. Find its area.
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Question 287754: The length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than its width. The area of the rectangle is 15 inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 287824: determine the combined capacity of these three round peices of pipe if they all have a diameter of 10 inches? (round to the nearest tenth).
piece A= 6' 3"
piece B= 6' 8"
piece C= 7' 7"
the total length of the pipe is 20' 6"
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Question 287826: determine the diameter of a circle having a circumference of 7'- 61/2". please express your answer in feet and inches to the nearest 1/16.
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Question 287822: determine the area of a triangle having a base of 3 1/2 inches and a height of 2 1/2 inches.
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Question 287823: what is the area of a circle having a diameter of 6 feet - 6 inches? Please express answer in square inches and feet.
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Question 287821: find the perimeter of a rectangle having a length of 8 feet - 4 inches and a width of 5 feet - 7 inches. Express answer in feet and inches please.
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Question 286736: The width of a rectangle is 4 meters less than its length. The area is 140 square meters. Find the length of the rectangle
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Question 288001: Suppose that the width of a rectangle is 5 inches shorter than the length and that the perimeter of the rectangle is 50 inches. Set up an equation for the perimeter involving only L, the length in the rectangle.
Also solve this equation algebraically to find the length of the rectangle. Find the width as well.
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Question 287957: a rectangle is 54 square feet. the lenth is 15 feet more that the width. write an equasion. what is the width and the legth?
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Question 288056: There are 32 vertical fence posts enclosing a rectangular field. The posts are evenly spaced and 2m apart . there are 10 posts along the length of the field . find the area of the field in square meters
A 180 b 252 c 60 d 168 e 308

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Question 288163: the length of a rectangle is 4in longer than its with.if the perimeter is 28in find its area
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Question 287766: draw a rectangle whose perimeter equals 24 inches and whose area is less than 30 square inches
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Question 288284: The length of a rectangle is increased by 15% and the width is decreased by
20%. Compared to the area of the original rectangle,the area of the new
rectangle is
(a) 8% less (b) 5% less (c) the same (d) 5% more (e) l2% more
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Question 288270: A square piece of paper is folded in half to form a rectangle . this rectangle has a perimeter of 18cm . the area of the original square in cm^2 is
A 9 b 12 c 18 d 24 e 36

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Question 288390: what is the length and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 24m and the area is 35m2?
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Question 288262: A rectangle has a diagonal that measures 10 centimeters and a length that is 2 centimeters longer than the width.What is the width of the rectangle in centimeters?
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Question 288260: A rectangle has a diagonal that measures 10 centimeters and a length that is 2 centimeters longer than the width.What is the width of the rectangle in centimeters?
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Question 288502: your job requires you to cut 4 sides of an 86 x 28 rectangle how many total feet will you cut?
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Question 288478: Alan is building a garden shaped like a rectangle with a semicircle attached to one short side. If he has 40 feet of fencing to go around it, what dimensions will give him the maximum area in the garden?
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Question 288496: What would 2 different rectangles be with the perimeter being 20ft for both.
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Question 288545: HOW DO YOU FIND THE MISSING LENGTH GIVEN THE LENGHT OF ONE SIDE AND THE LENGTH OF A DIAGONAL
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Question 288539: The perimiter of a rectangle is 150 inches. The length exceeds the width by 29 inches. Find the length and width.
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Question 288704: if possible, give an example of a rational function which does not have a vertical asymptote. explain your answer?
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Question 288741: length of a rectangle is 8 in less than twice the width. the area is 90 in squared find the width
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Question 288756: What is the length and width of a rectangle whose perimeter is 15? We can only use whole numbers.
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Question 289103: In rectangle ABCD, diagonal AC = 5x and diagonal BD = 6x � 2. Find x and then find the length of AC.
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Question 289211: a 40-foot by 30-foot rectangular playground needs to be covered by rectangular pieces of grass turf that measures 2-foot by 4-foot. if the pieces of turf are not cut, how many of them will be needed to cover the playground?
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Question 289426: How would I figure out the rectangle that was 7/8yards by 32/49 yards? And then put it into sq ft.
Thank you
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Question 289463: The area of a rectangle is 72 sq feet. If the length is 12 feet, the width is
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Question 289636: find the perimeter of a rectangle given that only that the two opposite sides are equal. the length (l) of two sides is 15 inches and the other two sideswith width (w) are 20 inches
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Question 289618: The length of a rectangle is 5 centimeters less than twice its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 26 cm. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 290070: Please help me solve this question.
If the perimeter of a rectangle is 40 centimeters and the legnth is 8 centimeters, determine the width of the rectangle.
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Question 290059: if the area is 40 square meters, and the perimeter is 26 meters, what is the length and the width? (this was a question on my son's grade 4 math test that is stumping me...)
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Question 290129: please help me solve this problem: the perimeter of a rectangle is forty yards. it is 1 and a half yards longer than it is wide. what is the length and width?
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Question 290265: what is the perimeter of a rectangle with the lenght of 8 and width of 27
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Question 290302: what is the area of a rectangle with a length of 15 feet and a width of 9 feet?
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Question 290367: I need help with this question :
The perimeter of a rectangle is 126 cm. The ratio of the length to the width if 5:2. Find the width of the rectangle.
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