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Question 497132: How does the area of a rectangle change if the length is doubled but the width stays the same? drawing the scenario.
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Question 497045: you have 100 feet of fencing for a garden to be built along the long wall at the back of your yard. what are the dimensions of the largest garden that can be enclosed by this fencing?
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Question 497818: 180in=60ft how?

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Question 497969: the length of a picture frame is 3in grater then the width. the perimiter is less then 52in. describe the dimension of the fram.
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Question 498212: Area of rectangle= 25
express perimeter as function P(w) of width
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Question 498226: how to find the diagonal of a rectangle whose length is 7 cm and breadth is 24 cm
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Question 498197: the diagonals of a rectangles are 24 inches long intersect at an angle of 60 degrees.find the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 498228: The length of a rectangle is 5 times the width and its area is 180 square units. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 498228: The length of a rectangle is 5 times the width and its area is 180 square units. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 498193: A retangular room is 12 1/2 feet wide and 14 feet long. What is the perimeterof the room.
I know if you the formula I have to use is p = 2(l+w)
but I am confused because of the fraction. Please help. Thanks!
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Question 498037: a rectangle is inscribed in a circle with a radius of 10 ft. the rectangle is 5 feet by 6 feet. find the area of the shaded region.
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Question 498022: what's the perimeter of a rectangle with 45cm length and 25width?
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Question 498015: a farmer has a rectangular garden plot surrounded by 200 ft of fence. Find the length and width of the garden if its area is 2400 ft squared
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Question 498237: The width of a rectabgle is 1 meter more than half the length of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 40 meters, find the width and the length. I know A=w*l and P=2l+2w, however I can not figure out how to set this problem up.
Thank you,
Feona
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Question 498016: A box with a square base and no top is to be made from a square piece of cardboard by cutting 4 inch squares from each corner and folding up the sides. The box is to hold 100 in cubed. How big a piece of cardboard is needed.
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Question 497995: Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 15.5 cm and a width of 38.0 mm
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Question 497975: 5 cm more than the length of rectangle is less than equal to 44 cm greater than or equal to 20 cm. The width of the same rectangle is 10 cm. What is the positive difference between the maximum possible are of rectangle and least possible area of rectangle
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Question 497930: A rectangle has a perimeter of 70. What is the 4 to 5 (length to width) ratio of this rectangle ?
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Question 498258: the area of a rectangle is the same as the area of a square with a side of 8 cm. if the length of the rectangle is 16 cm, what is its width in centimeters ?
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Question 497872: a rectangle and a square have the same width but the rectangle in 6m longer than the square. Their total area is 176 sq. m. Find the dimensions of each figure
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Question 497788: the perimeter of a rectangle is 64 ft. the lenght is 8 ft less than 3 times the width. find the length and width
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Question 497721: The area of a rectangular garden is 108 square meters. The width is 3 meters longer than one-half the length. Find the length and the width of the garden.
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Question 498614: How many times the sides of a square would increase if the area was increased by nine times?
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Question 498880: The length of a rectangular field is 30m greater than its width, w metres.
i) Write down an expression for the area A m^2 of the field, in terms of w.
I got this to be w(w+30)
ii) The area of the field is 8800m^2. Find its width and perimeter.
This is where I'm stuck. I know the perimeter is 2 x the width + 2 x the length but I have no idea how to work out the width from that. Many thanks.
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Question 498548: how do u find the area of a rectangle with length of 32 an a width of 16

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Question 498858: a rectanglar playing field has a perimeter of 100 meters. if one side is one meter less than twice the other, what are the dimensions of the field?

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Question 498824: the area A of a rectangle increased by 4 is equal to 36 decreased by 5 times the area. what is the area of the rectangle? with equation and solution
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Question 498820: The length of a rectangle is three less than two times the width. If the perimeter is 42, find the length and width. (Equation and solve)
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Question 498747: the perimeter of a rectangle is 16x its width. the length is 12 cm more than the width. find length and width
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Question 498671: Exactly how many cubic centimeters of ice cream can an ice cream cone hold (within the cone) if its height is 6.4 centimeters and the radius of its base is 1.5 centimeters?
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Question 498575: The area of a rectangle is the product of its length and width. Suppose the area of a rectangle is 24 in squared. What are the possible whole number measurements of its length and width?
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Question 498572: if the perimeter is 100 meters and a the length is 14m more than the width what is the length and the width?
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Question 498571: suppose rectangles Q and R are similar. the dimension of rectangle Q are 8 cm and 20 cm. the area of rectangle R is 2250 square cm . what are the dimension of rectangle R?
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Question 499085: The length of a rectangle is 8 units greater than the width, x. Write an expression giving the area, A, of the rectangle.
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Question 498567: The perimeter of a rectangle is 760 centimeters. If the ratio of its width to its length is 5 to 14, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 498501: If the perimeter of a rectangular is 88 feet and the length says 4w-1 and the width says w whats the length of each side?!?!?!?!?!?
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Question 498482: Write an equation to solve the problem. Do not forget to identify each variable. include a brief but detailed explanation of your thought process through the problem. also include a picture the correctly labels the length and width.
the length of the rectangle is five inches greater than the width. the sun of the length and width is 41 inches. find the length and width of the rectangle. what geometric term would describe the distance around the rectangle?
-my school just started last week, i'm a sophomore and my geometry teacher gives us a "Geometry Challenge Problem" each week worth TEN POINTS! i can write the explanation and the picture and solve the problem and all that. i just don't know where to start. i haven't done perimeter since like 5Th grade. please help me get started. thank you
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Question 499174: if perimeter of rectangle of A is greater than perimeter of rectangle B
then which one is greater
1:area of rectangle A
2:area of rectangle B
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Question 499123: A strip of uniform width is to be cut off of both sides and both ends of a sheet of paper that is 20 inches by 6 inches, in order to reduce the size of the paper to an area of 32 square inches. Find the width of the strip.

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Question 499122: The length of a rectangular sheet of paper is 3 centimeters more than three times its width, and the area of the rectangle is 216 square centimeters. Find the length and width of the rectangle.

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Question 498455: If the length of a rectangle is half the width and the area is 25 square meters, what is the perimeter?
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Question 498414: The perimeter of a rectangle is 34 inches, and its area is 104 square inches. Find the dimensions of the rectangle/

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Question 499272: the length of a rectangle is 10 units longer than its width. if the total perimeter of the rectangle is 44 units, what is the width?
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Question 499318: Framing for a concrete slab for a garage.The width is 48ft and the length is 24 ft.I need to know what the diagonal measurement is in ft and inches.Please and thank you
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