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Question 601867: How can you find area for complex rectangles or squares . ( 4th grade leval )
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Question 602083: What is the greatest possible area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 38 ft?
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Question 601927: What are the dimensions of a rectangle if the length is 5 less than three times the width and the area is 78?!

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Question 602192: The length of a rectangle is 5 m, and its width is 18 m. What is the area of half of the rectangle?
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Question 602849: A garden measuring 6 meters by 8 meters is to have a pathway around it, increasing the total area to 252 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway?
Can you please explain HOW to find the answer? Please and thank you!
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Question 602996: "If the sides of a rectangle are 12 and 15, then the diagonal is _____________."

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Question 603460: Suppose I want a garden with 400 square feet (area). Write an equation that can be used to find the values for x that result in that area.
My thoughts are:
A(x)=x*y
or

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Question 603769: The length of a rectangular deck is 8 meters more than twice the width. The perimeter of the deck is 46 m. Find the length of the deck.
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Question 603776: its a circular garden has a diameter of 16m what is the area of the grade n
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Question 603940: What is the perimeter of a rectangle of 26 meters long and half as wide
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Question 604235: Wildlife biologists catch, tag, and release 90 deer into a wildlife refuge. Two weeks later, they observe a sample of 154 deeer, 77 of which are tagged. Assuming the ratio of tagged deer in the sample is the same as the ratio of tagged deer in the refuge, how many total deer are in the refuge?
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Question 604233: 130 feet of fencing what should the dimensions be if you want the length to be 15 feet greater than the width?

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Question 604336: A square is divided into 5 equal sized rectangles. If the perimeter of one of the rectangles is 30cm, how many centimeters are in the perimeter of the square?
Thank you.
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Question 604355: A rectangular floor that measures 78 inches by 102 inches
is to be completely covered with square tiles. The tiles are
available in sizes with only whole-number side lengths. What
is the smallest number of uncut tiles that could be used to
cover the floor?
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Question 604677: A rectangular garden has a length that is four times its width. If the area of the garden is 676 square feet, find the length and the width.
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Question 605054: a semicircle of radius r =2x is inscribed in a rectangle so that the diameter of the semicircle is the length of the rectangle.

a.) express the area of the rectangle as a function of x.
b.) express the perimeter of the rectangle as the function of x.
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Question 605310: find the length and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 54 and the length is 8 times the width
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Question 605301: Find the length of a diagonal of a rectangle if the length of the rectangle is 24 cm and its width is 10 cm.
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Question 605711: a rhombus has a perimeter of 84 cm and an area of 252 cm square.find the lenght of the altitude
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Question 606207: What are length and width of rectangle with an area of 59 square units? What is perimeter?
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Question 606523: I have done these problems before but I am stumped.....
The area of a rectangular wall is 240 sq. ft. It's length is 6 feet shorter than three times it's width. Find the length and width of the wall.
I know A=LW and I set it up as w(3w-6)=240
I got answers that don't work. How do I solve this? Have I set it up correctly??
Thanks,
Tammy
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Question 606589: B + C = 24 yards. B is 6 yards shorter than C. How do we set up this problem to solve?
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Question 566785: A rectangular patio is 9 yd 2 ft long and 5 yd 2 ft wide. What is the perimeter of the patio in yards?
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Question 606865: A rectangle's length is seven centimeters more than its width. The rectangle's area is 78 square centimeters. What is its length?
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Question 606892: the width of the rectangle is half its length. It has a perimeter of 42 m what is its length and width
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Question 607109: have a container openning of 90" tall and 92" wide, how do i get the the distance from the bottom righthand corner to the top of the lefthand corner of the openning ? it has been a while since i used that type of math.
thanks in advance for your help
Dan
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Question 607174: Please can you help me with this problem. I really do appreciate your help...

The width of a rectangle is 6 kilometers less than twice its length if its area is 80 square kilometers find the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Question 607342: a rectangular garden has a perimeter of 28 yards, the width of the garden is 6 yards less than its length. what is the area of the garden, in square yards?
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Question 607218: The length of a rectangle is 4 inches longer than twice its width. The area of the rectangle is 96 square inches. What is the length and the width of the rectangle?

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Question 607389: Can you please help me solve this question: the perimeter of a rectangle equals 114 feet. the length equals 3 less than twice the width. Find the demensions of the rectangle.
I have tried guess and check and comparing it to a square. Thank you!
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Question 606590: D + E = 16 feet. D is 4 feet longer than E. How do we set up this problem to solve?
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Question 607684: The perimeter of a rectangle is 48 cm. The length is 6 cm less than twice the width. Which system would model this situation, and what are the length and the width?
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Question 607788: I would like to know the two quadrilaterals that always involve all right angles
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Question 607917: Determine the equation of a line through the point (3,-4) that is perpendicular to the line y=3x+7. Show work.
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Question 608159: how or what do I do to make 7 inch semicircle at end of 7inch heigth x 11 inch width rectangle

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Question 608483: A room is 12 feet by 27 feet. What is the cost of carpeting the room at $11.00 per square yard?
A)$29.70
B)$396.00
C)$45.64
D)$225.00
E)$1188.00
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Question 608488: the scale of a map is 3/4 inch=12 miles. What is the area, in square miles, of a plot represented on this map by a square whose side is 1 inch?
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Question 608479: A rectangular plot 50 feet by 100 feet is surrounded on all sides by a concrete walk 5 feet wide. Find the number of square feet in the surface of the walk.
A)1600
B)5250
C)5500
D)6100
E)6600
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Question 608760: A triangular piece of glass (XYC) is cut from a rectangular pane (ABCD). Points X and Y are the midpoints of two sides of the rectangular pane. What fraction of the area ABCD is XYC?
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Question 608963: The width of a rectangular yard is x feet. If 300 feet of fencing is needed to enclse the yard, which of the following represents the length of the yard, in feet, and why?
A. 300-x
B. 300-2x
C. 150-x
D. 150-2x
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Question 609137: how do you solve the following If the area of a rectangle is 13 1/2 units and the length of one of the sides is 1/5 the perimeter what are the values of length and width and how? Thanks so very much.
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Question 609279: Can a square fit in a rectangle?
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