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Question 739703:
The length of a rectangular back yard is 5 feet less than twice the width. The perimeter of the back yard is 302 feet. What is the width and the length of the back yard
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Question 739757: Find the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 56.
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Question 739909: A=240 Square Yards P=62 yards What is the length and width?
Thank you!!!
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Question 739952: the length of a rectangle is three times as long as the width. If each side is increased by 6, the area of the new rectangle is 156 more than the area of the original rectangle. What are the dimensions of the new rectangle?
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Question 739956: the length of a rectangle is three times as long as the width. If each side is increased by 6, the area of the new rectangle is 156 more than the area of the original rectangle. What are the dimensions of the new rectangle?
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Question 739994: a rectangle has length 2squarerootxcm and width squarerootxcm. the length of a diagonal of the rectangle is the squareroot of 45cm.
1 find the area of the rectangle
2 the area of the square is twice the area of the rectangle.
find the length of a side of a square.
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Question 740511:

If the area of a rectangle is 48cm^2, and the length 8cm. Find the perimeter
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Question 740691: Dear tutor, please help me solve this question:
Determine the dimensions of rectangle if its length is 3 times the width and its perimeter is 112
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Question 740811: If the length and width of a rectangle are doubled, by what factor is the length of its diagonal multiplied?
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Question 740822: how many cars can you park in a rectangle field 1400 x 500 and 850 x 300
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Question 740783:
a classroom door measure 152 cm long and 50 cm wide. What is its area
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Question 741102: I used 60 m of fencing to my rectangular garden. The length is 4 m longer than the width. What are the length and width of the garden.
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Question 741110: The area (in square inches) of a rectangle is given by the polynomial function A(x)=X^2+11x+18. If the length of the rectangle is (x+9) inches, what is the width?
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Question 741667: the area of a square equal its perimeter numerically then its side length equal 6 cm. how?
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Question 742014: a rectangle has a length of 9 inches and a perimeter of 30 inches. what is the perimeter of a similar rectangle with a width of 3 inches.
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Question 742527:

the perimeter of a rectangle is 42 ft and the area of the rectangle is 54 ft^2. find the dimensions of the rectangle ?

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Question 742434: the area of a rectangle is 24 square inches. the lenght of the rectangle is two inches longer tha its width. Find the width of the rectangles
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Question 742841: LMNP is a rectangle. LN= 9x-14 and MP=7x+4.What is the length of the diagonals?
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Question 742861: Can someone help me the area is 176cm squared and the perimeter 60cm
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Question 742861: Can someone help me the area is 176cm squared and the perimeter 60cm
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Question 743452: Anyone willing o help me? I don't get this at all I can give you the question and some additional info but after hat I am so lost! Thanks for your time!

You think it would be a great idea to market 22 gallon aquarium that is perfect cube. estimate the dimensions and then check your guess to see how close you can get . What operation do you need to know to get an exact answer?
Common aquarium holds 10 gallons. I know volume of a right rectangular tank is found by multiplying the length of the tank times the width times the height, or V=lwh. I know 231 cubic inches are equal to 1 gallon.
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Question 743439: 2. You have an order for an 8 gallon aquarium that is 20 inches long and 10.5 inches wide. How deep should the aquarium be?
this is what I know....
Common aquarium holds 10 gallons. I know volume of a right rectangular tank is found by multiplying the length of the tank times the width times the height, or V=lwh. I know 231 cubic inches are equal to 1 gallon.
Can you help me understand how to solve this? I have work due on stuff similar. Thanks!

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Question 743450: A customer wants an aquarium that is exactly twice as long as it is wide and holds 30 gallons of water . Suggest at least two sets of dimensions to the nearest tenth inch that would work for this combination. Here is some more info...
Common aquarium holds 10 gallons. I know volume of a right rectangular tank is found by multiplying the length of the tank times the width times the height, or V=lwh. I know 231 cubic inches are equal to 1 gallon.
I am TERRIBLE at word problems especially this one. Can you please help me?

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Question 743500:
The perimeter of a square garden is to be at least 30 feet but not more than 64 feet. Find all possible values for the length of its sides.
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Question 743530: (2x^2+12x+21)/(x+3)
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Question 743925: the rectangle has an area of 96 square feet. find its dimension

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Question 743992:

Find the area of a rectangle if one side measures 15m and the other 30m
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Question 744106: the width of a rectangle is three fourth of the length. find the dimensions of the rectangle if the perimeter is 70 cm.
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Question 744540: If the length and width of rectangle R are each increased by 1, the area of the new rectangle will be 72. If the length and width of rectangle R are each decreased by 1, the area of the new rectangle will be 35. What is the perimeter of rectangle R?
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Question 744662: The area of a rectangular painting is 7614 to the second power . If the width of the painting is 81 centimeters, what is its length?
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Question 744799: perimeter = 50
area = 144
what is the length and width of this rectangle?
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Question 744803: Hey, I have an issue.
I had a rectangle with the area of 255m squared, the length= 17m, the width=15m
I needed to extend this area by 3.226 so it became 822.63m squared. My problem is that how do I figure out the dimensions of length and width once I have this new area? I have tried things like simply multiplying the lengths and widths by 3.226 but they were incorrect and am stuck to how to complete this.
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Question 745024: ABC is an isosceles triangle. The angles A and B are equal to each other, and the angle C is 38 degrees. what are the angles of A and B
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Question 745432: The ratio of the width to the length of a rectangle is 2:3.if the area is 216sq cm, what is the length?
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Question 746054: if two opposite sides of a square are each increased by 12 inches, and the other two sides are increased 4 inches, a rectangle is formed having a perimeter double that of the square. how long are the sides of the square?
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Question 746216: The length of a rectangle is 7 inches longer than it is wide. If the area is 170 square inches, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 746423: A rectangle has a perimeter of 336 square inches. The length is 21 inches long. Find the width

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Question 746423: A rectangle has a perimeter of 336 square inches. The length is 21 inches long. Find the width

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Question 746423: A rectangle has a perimeter of 336 square inches. The length is 21 inches long. Find the width

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Question 746449: what is the length and the width of a recatangle with an area of 38,646 sq ft?

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Question 746498: what is the volume of a building that has a height of 12 feet length of 40 feet and width of 75 feet . in cubic feet?

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Question 746498: what is the volume of a building that has a height of 12 feet length of 40 feet and width of 75 feet . in cubic feet?

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Question 746554: i dont know how to find the perimeter of a rectangle with the long side 2w + 3 and the short side w. the rectangle has 4 90 degree angles.
thanks!!
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Question 747009: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 344 feet. If the width of the garden is 77 feet, what is its length?

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