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Question 486362: The length of a rectangle is 4 cm less than 3 times the width. The perimeter is 88 cm. What are the dimensions of the rectangle??
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Question 486382: A floor salesman was asked to help Mrs. Cooper with a problem situation. She wanted to remove the carpet in her den and replace it with green marble, 9 inch square tiles. The rectangular room measures 12 feet by 15 feet.
A. What is the main question (s) that you think the floor salesman is being asked
by Mrs. Cooper?
B. Identify at least two facts in the problem statement that are not relevant to finding the solution to this problem.
C. Name at least three contextual or mathematical clues that the floor salesman will have to use to interpret this problem situation.
D. To clarify his thinking, what questions will the salesman have to consider before answering the question being posed?
E. What additional information will the floor salesman need to resolve the problem situation?
F. What mathematical models or formulas will the floor salesman have to use to determine the solution to this problem?

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Question 486602: If the area of a square with side x is 9, what is the area of a square of side 4x?
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Question 486872: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm greater than its width. The perimeter is 24 cm. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 486897: Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).
I know that area is l(w) I also know how to plot these points on a graph. What am I missing here?
Suzie
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Question 487023: A rectangle is 2 times as long as it is wide. If the area is 18 square feet, find its perimeter
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Question 487026: A ball thrown into the air reaches a height h (in feet) according to the formula h = -16t2 + 80t, where t is the time elapsed since the ball was thrown. Find the shortest time it will take the ball to reach a height of 64 feet.

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Question 487436: find the area of a rectangle with a base of 6 1/4yds and a height of 3 1/3yds
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Question 487560: Lenght of a rectangle is 1 unit more than it's width.
The area of this rectangle is 30 square units.
What are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 487771: let l represent the length of a rectangle with a perimeter of 100 ft. write an expression for the width of the rectangle in terms of l.
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Question 487793: One integer is 3 more than twice another integer. If the sum of the two integers is 36, what is the smaller integer?
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Question 487792: One integer is 3 more than twice another integer. If the sum of the two integers is 36, what is the smaller integer?
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Question 487870: the perimeter is 44 ft. the area is 120 sq ft. How do you find the length and the width using the formula P=2l + 2w?
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Question 487882: espress the area for a rectangle with a perimeter of 100ft as a function of its length
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Question 487624: The length of a rectangle is increased by 60% By what percent would the width have to be decreased to maintain the same area?
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Question 487906: Rectangle with 4 m base 2 and height 2 cm
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Question 488537: Suppose the length and width of the rectangle are doubled. what effect would this have on the area? Justify your answer. rectangle dimensions = 17ft L
4 ft W
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Question 488781: if the rectangle is 36 cm by 25 cm, what is the perimeter
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Question 488769: The area of a rectangle is 18 in square. The length is twice the width. What is the length and width of the rectangle. Thanks
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Question 488923: A farmer owns two rectangular fields. The length of the larger field is twice the length of the smaller field, and the width of the larger field is four times the width of the smaller field. If the smaller field has an area of 1 acre, what is the area of the larger field?
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Question 489125: the width of a rectangle is 15 cm less than the length. The perimeter is 98cm whats the rectangles dimensions and how do you work it
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Question 489330: Hw
q can I write an equation to find the length of each side of the square if it's p=36.??
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Question 489401: IF the perimeter of a rectangle is 10 times the width of the rectangle, then the length of the rectangle is how many times the width?
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Question 489690: The length of a rectangle is four times its width.
If the area of the rectangle is 324m^2 , find its perimeter
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Question 490020: A contractor needs to cut a piece of glass to fit a square window. the area of the window is 12ft2. Find the length of the side of the window to the nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 490156: how to find the maximum area of a rectangle if the perimeter is 200
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Question 490204: Find the length of the diagonal in a rectangle with a length of 8 cm and a width of 6 cm.
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Question 490127: the width of a rectangle is one half the length. the perimeter of the rectangle is 90, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 490129: a retangular carpet has a perimeter of 182 inches. the length of the carpet is 73 inches more then the width. what are the dimentions of the carpet?
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Question 490990: a rectangle's width is one-third its length. If the width is 8 inches, what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 491328: The area of a rectangle is represented by x2-4, and a pair of consecutive sides are measured x+4 and x-3. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 491332: perimeter of rectangle is 74 inches. What are dimensions if the length is 7 inches greater than twice the width.
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Question 491392: the area of a rectangle is 27 cm squared. the width is three times its length, what is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 491670: Suppose that the length of a certain rectangle is 2 meters less than two times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 32 meters. Find the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 491654: The area of a rectangle is 54 centimeters squared. The side lengths are 2x+1 and x+2. What is the measure of each side?
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Question 491590: The length of a rectangle is 1 foot more than twice the width. The perimeter is 20 feet. Find the dimensions.
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Question 491923: A rectangle of area 360 square yards is 10 times as long as it is wide. What is the length and width?
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Question 491923: A rectangle of area 360 square yards is 10 times as long as it is wide. What is the length and width?
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Question 492067: the length of a rectangle is 4 inches longer than its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 112. find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 492372: The formula for the perimeter of a rectangle is P = 2l + 2w , where l is the length of the rectangle and w is the width of the rectangle . Solve the equation for w .
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Question 491943: A picture measure 7 1/2 inches by 5 inches is a a large so that the larger side become 18 inches. What does the shorter side become?

With a solution please. =)
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Question 492626: a room is 15 feet by 30 feet and the tile 1 foot and cost 92 cent how much will it cost to cover the entire room
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Question 492616: How thick is a sheet of metel if the length is 50cm and the width is 20cm and it weighs 5.4 grams?
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Question 492730: find the perimeter of a rectangular object which has a width of x+4 and a height of x
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