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Question 156964: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 24 ft. The length is 2 ft more than the width. Find the length and the width of the garden.
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Question 157352: The width of a rectangle is fixed at 11 cm. What lengths will make the perimeter greater than 88 cm?
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Question 158677: I will first describe the picture. There is a rectangle, ABCD with the long side labeled y and short side labeled x.
Here is the question.
If the perimeter of the rectangle ABCD is equal to p, and x=1/5 y, what is the value of y in terms of p?
I know the answer is (5p)/(12) but am not sure how this answer is derived?
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Question 158958: Find the missing dimension in each rectangle. Length is 13m and perimeter is 68m
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Question 159213: A rectangular lot, whose area is 210 meter square, has one of its longer sides next to a river. The total length of fence surrounding the lot is 42 meter. Find the dimensions of the lot.
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Question 159212: A rectangular patio is surrounded on three sides by a fence (the remaning side is up against the house). If the area of the patio is 38 meter square, and the total length of fence is 18 meters, what is the length and width of the patio.
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Question 159411: what is the area of a 11 by 3x rectange
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Question 159838: A farmer has 800 ft of fencing material to enclose a rectangular field. The
width of the field is 175 ft. How do I find the length and area of the field?
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Question 159892: Calculating the dimension of a rectangle with 28 inch length and surrounds a 48 square inch picture. How do I calculate the dimension of the rectangle given this information.
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Question 160165: the volume of the box is 560 inches. the width is 7 inches. how long and heigh of the box

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Question 160257: Find the perimeter of a rectangular board whose length is 3 feet longer than the width.
p= 2l + 2w

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Question 160264: 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 square feet.
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Question 160339: The area of a rectangle is 30 cm^2. The perimeter is 26cm. What are the length and width of the rectangle.
this is what i have so far
a=lw so 30= lw
p=2L + 2W so 26= 2L+2W
I'm not sure if I am supposed to substitute the first equation into the second one or just try to isolate L and w.
thanks.

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Question 161451: The formula for the perimeter of a rectangle is P=2L+2W,where L is the length and W is width. A rectangle has a perimeter of 24 inches.find its dimensions if its length is 3 inches greater than its width.
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Question 162328: A bedroom is 12 feet in length, 13'2 feet wide and 8 feet high. What is the volume?

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Question 162778: As a real estate tycoon you have bought a rectangular parcel of waterfront property and want to enclose your land as follows: Using 5000 feet of fencing you want to enclose a rectangular section on only three sides using the water as the 4th side. What dimensions (length and width of the rectangle) should the enclosure be to assure maximum area?
I have been working on this problem for over two hours, it's ripping my mind apart! PLEASE HELP.
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Question 163403: A rectangle has a diagonal of length 20 ft. and a perimeter or 56 ft. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 163403: A rectangle has a diagonal of length 20 ft. and a perimeter or 56 ft. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 163485: If the length of a rectangle were decreased by seventeen feet the rectangle would be a square. The perimeter of the rectangle is three hundred twenty-six feet. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 164304: A rectangle has a length that is 6ft more than the width.Its perimeter is 100 ft. What is the area?
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Question 164437: a rectangular storage area is to be constructed along the side of tall building, a security fence is required along the remaning three sides of the area. what is the maximum area that can be enclosed with 800 ft of fencing.
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Question 165049: What is the area of square with perimeter P?
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Question 165047: If the area of square region having sides of length 6cm is equal to the area of a rectangular region having width 2.5 cms, then the length of the rectangle, in cms is ???????
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Question 165105: A Frame 2 inches wide is placed around a rectangular picture with dimensions 8 inches by 12 inches. What is the area of the frame, in square inches?
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Question 165103: The length of each side of square A is increased by 100% to make square B. If the length of the side of square B is increased by 50% to make square C, by what percent is the area of Square C greater than the sum of the areas of squares A and B?
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Question 165104: A Rectangle with integer side lengths has perimeter 10. What is the greatest number of these rectangles that can be cut from a piece of paper with widht 24 and length 60?
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Question 165108: The size of a television screen is given as the length of the screens diagonal. If the screens were flat, then the area of a square 21-inch screen would be how many square inches greater than the area of a square 19-inch screen???
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Question 165109: A square board that has an area of 25 square inches is to be cut into pieces, each of which is a square with sides of length 1,2 or 3 inches. What is the least number of such square pieces into which the board can be cut?
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Question 165118: A square board that has an area of 25 square inches is to be cut into pieces, each of which is a square with sides of length 1,2 or 3 inches. What is the least number of such square pieces into which the board can be cut?: A square board that has an area of 25 square inches is to be cut into pieces, each of which is a square with sides of length 1,2 or 3 inches. What is the least number of such square pieces into which the board can be cut?
Answers are as follows
A). 5
B). 6
C). 7
D). 8
E). 9
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Question 165276: The length of a rectangle is more than twice its width, and the area of the rectangle is . Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 165223: Find the perimeter and the area of the shaded region use 3.14 for pie.
A retangle shaded with a half circle on one end. The width is 25 ft. the height is 20 ft. I have the answers but I need to know how to work the problem.
Answer: Perimeter = 101.4 ft
Area = 343 ft2
Can someone please help by showing me how to work the problem?
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Question 165454: This is a math stars question I can't don't know how to tell my son how to get the answer.
Faye has 20 feet of fencing to make a rectangular pen for her dog. what is the largest area that she can fence in? His teacher said answer is 25 square feet-how did she get that answer?
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Question 165935: The length of a certain rectangle is 4 centimeters longer than its width. And the number of square in its area exceeds 7 times the number of centimeters in its width by 18. Find its dimensions.
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Question 166172: PLEASE HELP!!!!
Quadrilateral JKLM is a rhombus. If angle LMK=36, find angle KJM.
I must show my work and I don't know how to do this. PLEASE HELP!!!!
Thanks

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Question 166221: Suppose you have a Golden Rectangle cut out of a piece of paper. Now suppose you fold it in half along its base and then in half along its width. You have just created a new, smaller rectangle. Is that rectangle a Golden Rectangle?

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Question 166237: what is the answer to the area of a rectangle that has a lenght of 3x+1 and a width of 4x-3?
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Question 166235: The length of a rectangle floor is 8 meter less than twice its width. If a diagonal of the rectangle is 20 meters, find the length and width of the floor.
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Question 166306: Hello,
I am having a hard time solving this problem and iwas wondering if you can help me. #1 One side of a rectangle stage is 2 meters longer that the other. If the diagnonal is 10 meters then what is the lenghts of the sides.
#2. An angry constuction worker throws his wench downward from a height of 128 feet with am initial velocity of 32 feet per second. The height of he wrench above the ground after t seconds is given by S(t0 = 16^2-32t+ 128.
A. what is the height of the wrench after 1 second?
B. How long does it take for the wrench to reach the ground?
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Question 166487: The perimeter of a rectangle is 46m. If the width were doubled and the length were increased by 6 m, the perimeter would be 70 m. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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