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Question 495018: The area of is 16 square feet approximately how long is each side
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Question 495183: HOW IS THE HERON'S FORMULA USED FOR CALCULATION OF AREA OF A POLYGON WITHOUT DIVIDING IT INTO TRIANGLES? IF SO HOW? PLEASE TELL
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Question 496266: how can i find the area for 6in, 7in, 18in, 12in

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Question 500744: the approximate side length of a rug with an area of 64 feet squared

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Question 500850: A large rectangular movie screen in an Imax theater as an area of 10,384 square feet. Find the dimensions of the screen if it is 30 feet longer than it is wide?
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Question 501514: A=(1/2)h (b1+b2) for h
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Question 502413: how can I know how many gallions of paints to cover my living room that measures 30ft by 18ft?
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Question 503135: What is the area of this figure? Use 3.14 for pi.
8ft and 6ft
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Question 503474: I am really confused by this question
find a polynormal for the perimeter and for the area x+2 length and x the width
the perimeter is___________do not factor
the area is______________do not factor

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Question 503533: Is the answer for surface area for a sphere squared? Such as the surface area of a softball?
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Question 505886: The area of a square is 36 square feet. If each side is lengthened by 4 feet, how could the perimeter of the new square be calculated?
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Question 507265: area of rectangle is 77 square feet. if its width is 7 and 1/3 feet find its length.
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Question 507544: The safe load a beam can support varies jointly as the width and the square of the depth and inversely as the length. If a 2 x 8 inch beam 16 feet long is turned so that the width is 2 inches, it can support 2,000 pounds. How much weight can the same bea, support if it is turned so that the width is 8 inches?

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Question 508281: If a circular swimming pool is 200 feet around, what is the diameter of the pool?
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Question 508922: this question is in my saxon algebra 3 book and i cant figure it out
find the surface area of a right circular cone whose slant height is 12 in and whos base has a radius of 5 in
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Question 509394: A paint roller has a diameter of 4 inches and a height of 10 inches. How many square feet would I cover after 3 revolutions? This question is asking me to find what?
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Question 509338: Suppose you are standing in the center of castle garden and you walk toward a walll. How far will you walk?
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Question 510758: If two squares have the same area, what do you know about the measures of their sides?
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Question 511538: the lenght of each edge of a cube is 6 centimeters what is the surface area of the cube in square centimeters
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Question 511766: So i need to find the surface area of a half of a cylinder. I've tried everything i know how to do and even looked online and everything, but i cannot find the surface area without a width, and on the problem there is no width.
the length is 5
the diameter is 4
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Question 512008: IF the surface area of a cube is 150 square inches, what is the length of each edge of the cube?
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Question 512554: What is the total surface area of a hockey puck with diameter 7.2cm and height
2.3cm?
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Question 512870: A rectangular block of land is 240m x 180m in size. A well of uniform diameter 14m and 20m depth is dug in the middle of the block and the soil dug out is evenly spread over the remaining area of the land.
What will be the increase in the height of the block?
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Question 515424: A=lw
if the length is 18x-12 and the width is 6 what is the area
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Question 515620: A circle is drawn on a blueprint so that its circumference is 1088 mm longer than its diameter. Find the diameter of this circle. What is the proper steps on solving this problem. The answer in the back of the book is 508 mm but I can't for the life of me figure the formula on how to break down.
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Question 517311: 12.5 yd
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Question 517408: what is the lateral surface area of a cube whose side length is 2.5?
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Question 517782: How to I find the surface area and volume of a cylinder with an inverted half sphere? (picture a slurpy cup with the lid top inside the cup instead of the sphere visible to the naked eye.) I have tried to find the areas and volumes of both the sphere and the cylinder seperately however am unsure of the correct solution due to the inverted sphere into the cylinder. the base is 4 cm and the height is 2.5 cm, these are the only two dimensions given.
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Question 517993: The area of the base of a cylinder is 200, so what is the radius?
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Question 517993: The area of the base of a cylinder is 200, so what is the radius?
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Question 518652: surface Area and volume of spheres, cones and cylinders
16. The diameter of a volleyball is 10.9cm
a) Determine the amount of leather needed to make the ball
b)Determine the amount of air inside the ball

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Question 518997: Please help me to solve this word problem:
A square and a rectangular plot of land have same perimeter. If the square is of side 40 m and rectangle is of length 5 dam, then what is the area of the rectangle?
This the exact question copied from the Maths Olympiad practice book. Also please tell me the method.
Thank you
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Question 519238: A swimming pool is 50 m long and 25 m wide.It is 1 m deep at the shallow end and 8 m wide at the at other end.Find the volume of water in the pool when it is full and the total area of the pool which is in contact with the water ?
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Question 519239: the diameter of a sphere is 6 cm. it is melted and drawn into a wire of diameter 0.2cm . find the length of the wire.

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Question 519964: What is 7*7*22/7

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Question 519989: Find the volume of the figure where a = 5 ft, b = 9 ft, and c = 10 ft
i have no clue how to do this, can you show me the steps so i have a beter idea and can solve the rest of the problems? thanks
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Question 520897: the official height-to-width ratio of the united states flag is 1 : 1.9 . if a united states flag is 9.5 feet wide, how high should it be?

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Question 524703: a cube has a side length of 4 cm. what is the surface area?

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Question 525453: C^2=a^2+b^2 solve for b^2
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Question 525502: A+b+y= 180 solve for b
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Question 525504: A= r/2L solve for L
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Question 525633: A=πr^2 solve for π
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Question 526312: What is 144 yards squared ?
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