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Question 56270: I'm honestly not sure which category this question falls under, but here it is
To determine the distance to an oil platform in the Pacific Ocean from both ends of a beach, a surveyor measures the angle to the platform from each end of the beach. The angle made with the shoreline from one end of the beach is 83 degrees, from the other end 78.6 degrees. If the beach is 950 yards long, what are the distances to the oil platform from both ends of the beach?
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Question 56309: Thank you all for your help. I have a construction question.
if a garden area is 30 ft long and 20ft wide. A path of uniform width is set around the edge. if the remaining garden area is 400 ft. what is the width of the path?
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Question 56418: Is their a relationship between the perimeter and area?
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Question 57573: Find the area of the rectangle...
the width is 1/2 and the length 2 1/2
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Question 57648: A square has a perimeter of 54in. What is the area of this square?
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Question 58728: The width of a rectangle is 3 inches less than one-half of its length. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 42 inches, find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 61384: The surface of a sphere is 86 pie ft^2? what is the diameter of the sphere?
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Question 61704: Please help!!
Find the surface area of this rectangular solid in square inches. Dimensions are in feet and are 3,3,4
thank u
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Question 61755: what is the volume of a sphere with a radius of 2 cm?
What is the volume of a cone with 5cm height and 4cm width?
what is 1/2h(L1+L2)with L1:10.8, L2: 8.2, h:4?
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Question 60435: From a square piece of cardboard with width x inches, a square of width x-3 inches is removed from the center. Write the area of the remaining piece as a function of x.
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Question 62559: for homework there is a challenge question that says:
This net will fold into a triangular pyramid. Find the surface area of the pyramid, and estimate its volume.

The height of the pyramid is 5.2cm and the length is 6cm
I got this from the Math Impact Textbook, course 2(purple book)
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Question 64322: Find the area between the two curves
f(x)=1/(x+2) and g(x)=e^x
over the interval [0,1]
Please help!!!

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Question 65165: The area of a rectangular room is 238 square feet. The width is 3 feet less than the length. What are the dimensions?
Thank you for your time!
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Question 65376: The voloume of the box is represented by (x^2 + 5x + 6)(x + 5). Find the polynomial that represents the area of the bottom of the box.
I guess I can not seem to figure out where to start on this type of problem. I can see some of the equations but from there how do I figure out only one piece of the box?
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Question 65956: The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 ft less than twice its width.
If the perimeter of the playing field is 230 ft, find the length and width of the field.

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Question 66310: What is the equation for the surface area of an open box? For an example a box with dimensions 2=h, 4=w, 6=l
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Question 68785: I am having trouble solving this one. What is the formula to find the area of a kite? My teacher gave us A= 0.5(d + d2) what does d stand for?
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Question 69150: find the area of a rectangle with length, l = 2x + 3 and width, w = 2x - 3
a. 4x2
b. 4x2 - 12x + 9
c. 4x2 - 9
d. 4x2 + 9
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Question 69329: What is the area of a parallelogram that has a height of 12 inches and base of 28 inches?
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Question 69359: how do you calculate the surface area of a cone with height of 18 ft and r of 10 ft
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Question 69586: What is the area of a rectangle that has a perimeter of 47 mm and a length of 18.5 mm?
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Question 69582: What is the area of a square whoose sides are each 4 1/2 feet long?
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Question 70164: Hello,
I need help finding the area of a square with a side of 12cm.

Thank you
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Question 70167:
Someone please help me with this: Find the area of a rectangle with sides 4.1 and 5

Thank you
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Question 70169: Hi,
I'm not able to find the area of a trapezoid with height 2ft and bases 1ft and 3ft.

Thanks
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Question 70169: Hi,
I'm not able to find the area of a trapezoid with height 2ft and bases 1ft and 3ft.

Thanks
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Question 70176: Hi,
I need help with this problem: Find the base of a triangle with an area of 15 sq cm and 4 cm height.

Thank you
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Question 70134: I need to find the area of a triangle whose base is 3c+4 and height is 3c+4. Could you please help me. Thank you
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Question 70177: i have a right triangle with a circle inside. the height is 3 and the base is 4. the long diagonal side is 5. i need to know what the radius of the circle is?
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Question 70346: Hello,

I need help finding the surface area of a cylinder with a 10m radius and a 12m height.
Thank you
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Question 70416: Hi,
I need to find the surface area of a square with a base of 2yd and a height of 2yd.

Thank you
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Question 71297: Please help
From a square piece of cardboard with width x inches, a square of width x-3 inches is removed from the center. Write the area of the remaining piece as a function of x.
Please provide how this problem was answered so I can learn to do this.
Thank you
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Question 71319: hey
i need to find the area of a square with a side of 2 units.

thanx
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Question 71479: hey
ok. the bases of a trapezoid are 3ft and 4ft. the area is 42 sq ft. i need help finding the height.
thanks
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Question 72089: the paint in a certain container is sufficient to paint an area equal to 9.375 meter square.how many bricks of dimensions 22.5cm*10cm*7.5cm can be painted out of this container?
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Question 72166: How would I figure out how to find the circumference of the circle. When the formula is v=2/3 pi squared h. Then I have to round to the nearst hundredth?
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Question 72873: How do you find the area of an irregular region? I know that the formula is A=(I+1/2B) x U...but that is basically it. In each question, we are given some kind of wavy shape with a grid on top of it, and the lenght of a side of one square of the grid is given.
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Question 73195: what is the surface area of a cilynder with a diameter 12 inches and height of 8 inches? use 3.14 for pie

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Question 73430: A Biosphere covers over 130,000 square feet. If its layout was in the shape of a single square, what would be its dimensions?
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Question 73621: the area of a rectangle is 42 square meters.the width of the rectangle is 6 meters.what is the length? thanks
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Question 73683: the volume of a cylinder is given by V=pier^2h where r is the radius of the cylinder and his the height of the cylinder. Suppose the volume of the can is 100 cubic centimeters.
a) write h as a function of r. Keep pie in the function's equation
b) what is the measurement of the height if the radius of the cylinder is 2 centimeters. round to the nearest whole number. show work
c) graph this function
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Question 74068: Find the surface area of the right square pyramid. Slant 25cm. square sides of base are 14 cm.
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Question 73679: An open top box is to be constructed from a 6 foot by 8 foot rectangular cardboard by cutting out equal squares at each corner and the folding up the flaps. Let x denote the lenght of each side of the square to be cut out.
a)find the function V that represents the volume of the box in terms of x.
b) graph the function and show the graph over valid range of the variable x.
c) Using the graph, what is the value of x that will produce the maximum volume
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Question 74860: If the radius of a circle is 3 and is located inside of a square touching all 4 sides, what is the area of the 4 corners of the square? (Use 3.14 for pi)
This is multiple choice question. Need to see the formula that is used.
Multiple choice answers:
A. 5.15 sq units
B. 17.16 sq units
C. 7.74 sq units
D. 21.72 sq units
Thank you!
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