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Question 290732: The total surface area of a cube is 10,648 centimeters squared. What is the length of a diagonal that is not a diagonal of a face?
Note: The surface area of a cube is 6e squared, where e is the edges of the cube.
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Question 290838: A rectangular painting with a width of x centimeters has an area of x2 + 50x square centimeters. Find a binomial that represents the length. See the figure below.
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Question 290839: Amount of an investment. The amount of an investment of P dollars for t years at simple interest rate r is given by A = P + Prt.
a) Rewrite this formula by factoring out the greatest common factor on the right-hand side.
b) Find A if $8300 is invested for 3 years at a simple interest rate of 15%.
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Question 290863: A rectangular piece of tin measures 36in by 25in.a square measuring 4in by 4in is cut out of each corner and the sides are folded to form a box. what is the volume of the box?
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Question 290935: Aleta is making a rain cover for a square sandbox with sides 7.5 feet long. How much area does she need to cover?

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Question 291202: find the area of a circle with a radius of 14in. use 22/7 for 3.14
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Question 291251: The length of an edge of a cube is 5ft What is the total volume of two cubes of the same size?
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Question 291251: The length of an edge of a cube is 5ft What is the total volume of two cubes of the same size?
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Question 291344: if the area of a circular pond is 153.86 sq. yd. what is the circumference of the pond?
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Question 291511: If you have the area of a rectangle can you find the base and height?
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Question 291470: Mrs Lopez wants to retile her 16 ft by 18 ft dining room.
a. How many 1 ft sq tiles does she need? my answer is 288 tiles
b. She changes her mind and wants to use 4 inch by 4 inch tiles. How many tiles will she need?
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Question 291531: if a fertilizer with an analysis of 10-0-0 costs 15 dollars for a 60 pound bag, what will be the fertilizer cost for fertilizing 2000 square feet of root area at a rate of 2 pounds per 1000 square feet?
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Question 291642: Find the surface area, to the nearest tenth, of a cylinder with diameter 5 cm and height 8 cm. (S=2(pi)rh+2(pi)r^2)
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Question 292146: In a cone with a slant height of 7.5 feet, the slant height forms a 38 degree angle with the radius. Find the surface area and volume of the cone. Show all work.
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Question 292271: What is the ratio of 4ft to 4yd
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Question 292335: Can you please please help me find the area of a dodecan in the simplest way possible. I've tried looking for help on other web sites but the formulas are so complicated i have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks so much
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Question 292397: I need help on finding an answer for the surface area of a cylinder. thank you this is the problem.
r= 5ft h= 12ft thank you
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Question 292588: How do you find the lateral area of a regular polygon?
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Question 292615: From a 12-inch-by-16-inch piece of cardboard, 0.5-inch-square corners are cut out, as shown in the figure below, and the resulting flaps are folded up to form an open box. Find the volume and the external surface area of the box. Assume a = 16 in, b = 12 in, m = n = 0.5 in
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Question 293077: How do you find the radious of a cylinder when you only have the height and the surface area?
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Question 293271: What is the radius of a tennis ball with a surface area of 28 in.�?
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Question 293409: what is the area of an octagon which has sides 2m in length?

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Question 293409: what is the area of an octagon which has sides 2m in length?

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Question 293753: Having problems solving this word problem can someone please help:
Sandbox: a civic group builds a sandbox that is enclosed by 1-foot railroad ties. The group needs to find the area inside the sandbox to find the amount of sand needed. Use the figure and the formula for area to write an expression that represents the area inside the sandbox.
The figure is a picture of a square: above the top side there is a bracket on each end that has 1ft wrote above them. the left side of the square has a bracket at top and bottom that has 1ft wrote next to them. the bottom side has one bracket running from end to end with x-ft, and the right side has a bracket from top to bottom with x-ft.
really need help understanding this problem plaese help.
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Question 293936: Jessica is decorating a section of one wall of her kitchen with ceramic tiles. The area shi is decorating is represented by the shaded area in the diagram below. She is using 3 inch square tiles. The tiles are sold in boxes of 100.
Outside dimensions are 2.5 by 6 feet
Inside box is 2 ft by 1.5 feet
How many boxes of tiles will Jessica need to cover that section of wall?
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Question 294025: what is the area of my ass
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Question 294073: each face of a cube has an area of 12 square inches. what is the surface area of the cube?
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Question 294237: an envelope measures 24 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. what is the perimeter of the envelope
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Question 294470: 1. the floor of a room that is 12 feet wide and 15 feet long will be covered with tiles that are 1 foot square. How many tiles are needed?

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Question 294688: how can i find out the length of the slant height of a cone with a radius of 15 cm ad a surface area of 1884 cm square? thank you
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Question 294688: how can i find out the length of the slant height of a cone with a radius of 15 cm ad a surface area of 1884 cm square? thank you
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Question 294684: how can i find out the length of the slant height of a cone with a radius of 15 cm ad a surface area of 1884 cm square? thank you
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Question 294745: The earth has a total surface area of approximately 5.1x10^14 = 510,000,000,000,000 sq. meters. Seventy percent of this surface area is rock, ice, sand, and open ocean, Another 8% of the total surface area is tundra, lakes, streams, continental shelves, algal beds, reefs, and estuaries. We will consider the remaining area suitable for growning food and for living space.
Determine the surface area available for growning food and for living space.
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Question 294746: The earth has a total surface area of approximately 5.1x10^14 = 510,000,000,000,000 sq. meters. Seventy percent of this surface area is rock, ice, sand, and open ocean, Another 8% of the total surface area is tundra, lakes, streams, continental shelves, algal beds, reefs, and estuaries. We will consider the remaining area suitable for growning food and for living space.
Determine the surface area available for growning food and for living space.
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Question 294934: How do you find the surface area of a cylinder
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Question 294934: How do you find the surface area of a cylinder
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Question 295050: how do I find the surface area of 1/2 cylinder?
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Question 295426: What is the area of a regular hexagon with sides 2cm long? leave your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 296045: From a 17-inch-by-12-inch piece of cardboard, 2.5-inch-square corners are cut out, as shown in the figure above, and the resulting flaps are folded up to form an open box.
What is the volume of the box?
What is the surface area of the box?
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Question 295950: A rectangular park having lenght of 72 m and breadth of 54 m is surrounded by a path of 2.5 m wide. Find the area of the path?
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Question 296190: find the ratio of the surface areas of two cylinders whose radii are in the ratio 2:3 and have equal heights.
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Question 296322: Hello, I am having trouble with geometry. My problem is find the area of the shaded region to the nearest tenth. Assume the hexagon is regular. The picture is a circle with an inscribed regular hexagon. The shaded part is the between then hexagon and circle. The raduis of the circle is 8 in.
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Question 296421: I am completely confused on how to solve this problem i recieved on a take home test: The sum of the height and radius of a cylinder is 9m. The surface area of the cylinder is 54pie square meters. Write and solve an algebraic equation to find the height and the radius.
Thanks.
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Question 296538: A rectangular lawn has a length that is 3 yards greater than the width. The area of the lawn is 130 square yards.
Note: The formula for the area of a rectangle is Area = length \times width .
a) Write the polynomial equation for the area of the lawn. Use the variable x to represent the width of the lawn.
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