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Question 911671: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The area is 38 square inches.
a. Perimeter is = √48
b. You cannot calculate the perimeter with the given information.
c. Perimeter is ≈ 6.93 inches
d. Perimeter is ≈ 29.4 inches

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Question 911663: Amanda wants to make a rectangular fenced area for her dogs. She wants the area to be 32 square feet with the length of the yard being twice the width.
What would it cost Amanda to put up fencing for her dogs if the fencing costs $3.00 per foot?
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Question 911677: The length of a rectangle is half the width. The area is 25 square meters. So whats the perimeter?
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Question 912000: Ok a square and rectangle have the same area .the length of the rectangle is five inches more than twice the length of the side of the square. The width of the rectangle is six inches less than the side of the square. Find the length of the side of the square ?
Need help ASAP plz and thank u
Ps I'm not sure if this is a geometry question I have a mathematics 1B course
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Question 912049: he perimeter of a rectangle garden is 72 centimeters. The length is 6 meters longer than twice the width. What are the dimensions of the garden ?
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Question 912051: he perimeter of a rectangle garden is 72 centimeters. The length is 6 meters longer than twice the width. What are the dimensions of the garden ?
what is the width ?
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Question 912002: What is the maximum total area that 450cm of string can enclose if it is used to form the perimeters of two adjoining rectangles?

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Question 912065: the perimeter of a rectangle and a square is 80 cm each. if the difference between their areas is 100 cm find the sides of the rectangle.
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Question 912224: The length of a rectangle is eight centimeters greater than twice the width. The length is 54 what is the width?
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Question 912354: Find the dimensions of the rectangle that has a length of 3 meters more than its width and a perimeter equal in value to its area?
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Question 912327: The longest side of a triangle is 4 more than three times the shortest side and the remaining side is 6.2cm. Find the lengths of each side if the perimeter is 23cm.
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Question 912740: A rectangle's length and width are in a ratio of 3:1. The area is 75 square feet. What are the length and width?
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Question 912885: a garden is made up of a rectangular patch of grass and two semi-circular vegetable patches.if the length and width of the rectangular patch are 16 and 8m respectively, calculate:
a) the perimeter of the garden
b)the total area of the garden
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Question 912892: the length of a rectangle is 5 cm less than 3 times the width. the perimeter is 150 cm. find the length and width.
How do I set this up?
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Question 912971: jhanavi wants to make a rectangular park for children and others to play . the area of the park remains unchanged if its length is increased by 7m and breadth is decreased by 3m unit. its area remains uneffected if the length is decreased by 7m and breadth is increased by 5m.find the dimentions of the park why did jhanvi decide to make a park.
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Question 913001: The length of a rectangle is 1 cm. more than twice the width. if the length of the rectangle is decreased by 2 cm and the width is decreased by 1 cm, the perimeter is 20cm. find the length and width of the original rectangle?
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Question 913054: The area of some rectangle is 35in^2. Four times the width of this rectangle is the same as 3 inches more than twice the length. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
I came up with the equations:
4W=2L+3 and LxW=35
I tried to do emilination, but because one of the equations is multiplying, it did not work. Should I substitute 4W=2L+3 with 4(35/L)=2L+3 and end up with a quadratic function & figure out the problem from there? Thank you so much for your time.
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Question 912530: explain how to identify the gcf and lcm of a pair of number if one number is a factor of other numbers
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Question 913319: The description of a TV based on the diagonal length. If the height of a TV is 10 inches and the width is 7 inches what is the approximate diagonal length in inches?
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Question 913406: how much should you change the length of the rectangle so that the perimeter is 54 centimeters?

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Question 913412: the area of a rectangle is represented by x^2-4. If the perimeter is 40, find x.

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Question 913796: a rectangular playground has a perimeter of 342 feet. If the length of 43 feet longer than the width, what is the length of the playground? the answer is 107 but how do you solve the problem.
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Question 913798: a rectangular field has a perimeter of 876 feet. If the length is 12 feet longer then twice the width, what is the length of the field? the answer is 296 but how do you get that answer
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Question 914040: The width of a rectangle is 1/4 of the length. The area is twice the perimeter. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 914040: The width of a rectangle is 1/4 of the length. The area is twice the perimeter. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 914111: If the ratio of the width of a rectangle to its length is 7/8, and the length is 40 centimeters, find the width
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Question 914326: A plant grows for two months and then adds a new branch. Each new branch grows for two months, and then adds another branch. After the second month, each branch adds a new branch every month. Assume that the growth begins in January. How many branches will there be after 12 months?
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Question 914323: A photograph is to be printed on a rectangle in the divine proportion. If it is 7 cm high, how wide is it, to the nearest centimeter ?
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Question 914324: If a canvas for a painting is 20 inches wide, how high should it be, to the nearest inch, to be a rectangle with divine proportions? The canvas is higher than it is wide.
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Question 914355: WRITE THE RATIO OF LENGTH TO WIDTH OF A STANDARD BRICK TO A DECIMAL.
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Question 914671: If the perimeter of the rectangle is 232cm, what is the value of the length of the rectangle in centimeters
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Question 914759: the art teacher displays fourth grade student's paintings on a bulletin board. Each painting is 24 inches wide and covers 108 square inches of the bulletin board. What is the length of each painting. This is a 4th grade math area question. My son came up with
A=LXW
108=Lx24
108/24=L
L=4.5
However, we did not think there would be a decimal number for 4th grade math

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Question 914747: the perimeter of julia's garden is 500 yards. Find the dimensions of the garden if the length is 50 yards more than three times the width
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Question 915192: What are all the possible demensions of a rectangle if it's area is 54 in?
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Question 915370: 5 rectangles each have 60 meter perimeter.The length of the perimeter is what?
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Question 915411: Hi. This is the problem I have:
The length of a rectangle is 3 times its width. If its perimeter is 32m, what is its area?
My friend has only written down on my book:
3x4=12
12+12+4+4=32 and
12x4=48
I don't understand how she got these numbers and would like you to explain this to me.
Thank you.

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Question 915419: A rectangle is four times as long as it is wide .if the perimeter is 50 inches find the length.
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Question 915426: The length of a rectangle is 2 more than 5 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 88 inches. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 915554: if the area of the rectangle is 900 what is the scale factor?
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Question 915614: the length of the rectangular garden measures 3 feet more than three times the width of the garden. The perimeter of the garden is 46 feet.

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Question 915669: if the perimeter of a rectangle is 53 cm. if the length is four times the width decreased by ll cm whats the dimensions
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Question 915652: A rectangle has perimeter 38 feet and an area of 88 square feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle assuming the width is smaller than the length.
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Question 915766: The perimeter of a field is 326 yds the length is 87 yds what is the width

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