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Question 104616: How would I set up to figure the area of 560 sq ft with a length of 12 greater than the width's dimension. What are the dimensions?
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Question 104813: I have a hexagon with 6 equal sides! I have only one measurement that runs from the top vertex to the opposite vertex(diagonally)and is 15ft. I am to find the area of the hexagon in square feet. Can you please help. Thanks, Joann
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Question 104629: Two fences in a field meet at 120 degrees. A cow is tethered at their intersection with a 15-foot rope, as shown in the figure. Over how many square feet may the cow graze?
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Question 104618: If the area of a square garden is 48 square feet, what is the length, in feet, of one side of the garden?
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Question 105002: The radius of the base of a cylinder is 2.7 mm. The height is 2.7 mm. Find the surface area. Round to the nearest hundreth.
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Question 105031: The top of a soda can has a 6.3 cm diameter. What is its radius? its circumference? its area?
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Question 79173: How do you find the lateral area of a cone?
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Question 106359: I have a quadrilateral with four sides. base is 36inches. Left side is 24 inches. top side is 30 inches. Im suppose to find the fourth side and the area of the quadrilateral. My answer for the fourth side is 25.5 inches. I hope thats right. But I dont know how to find the area of this object. thanks
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Question 106973: A brick patio is twice as long as it is wide. It is bordered on all sides by a garden 1.5 m wide. Find the demensions of the partio iff the area of the garden is 54 m
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Question 107330: Find the height of a trapezoid with bases 6ft and 10ft and area 32sq ft.
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Question 107331: Find the area of a parallelogram with base 10 and corresponding height 4.
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Question 107335: Find the area of a square with side 6.
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Question 107926: Find the area of a circle with radius 4.
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Question 108381: How do I find the Area of a perimeter that is 9 feet by 11 Feet I am in the 5th grade
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Question 107998: One side of a rectangular pasture is 80 ft in length. The diagonal distance is 110 yd. If fencing costs $3.29 per foot, how much will it cost to fence the pasture?
I know that perimeter is 2L*2W, but this gives a diagonal distance. How do you figure that and how do you change yds to ft??
Please help.
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Question 108451: Mitchell is building a 6-foot square wooden deck for his tree house. He will use 3/4 inch thick pine planks that are 8 feet long and six inches wide. His carpenter's plans warn him to not use pieces less than 3 feet long for the deck. How many planks must Mitchell buy to make the tree house deck?
I am in 5th grade and I can't figure this one out. Even my parents have worked on it and they can't figure it out.

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Question 109743: We have to build and igloo out of 1 gallon jugs for class. It will have an interior diameter of 6 feet + an entry which is a cylender shape on it's side that is to be 3 feet wide and 3 feet long. How do I calculate the outside area so that once I have the demensions of the milk jugs, I can determine how many jugs I need... It would be a dome with an open ended 1/2 cylender?/?
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Question 108013: Find the perimeter of a parallelogram that has sides of 30 and 18 inches.

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Question 107924: Find the area of a rhombus with diagonals 4 m and 12 m.
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Question 107923: Find the area of a trapezoid with bases 5in and 11in height 3in.
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Question 109858: Find the circumference of a circle whose radiusis 8 in. (Use pi.)
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Question 109856: Find the area of a regular hexagon with side 12.
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Question 109857: The area of a trapezoid is 186 in squared. If the height is 11 in. and the longer base is 21 in., what is the length of the shorter base? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 110821: A triangle has a perimeter of 105 inches. The lengths of the sides of the triangle are consecutive odd integers. Find the length of the sides and then use Heron�s Formula to find the area of a triangle. Show all work to receive credit
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Question 110820: The area of a right triangle is 120 sq. in. The longer leg is 4 more than twice the shorter leg. Find the length of each leg. Show all work to receive credit.
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Question 110819: Find the area of the trapezoid pictured below.
A trapezoid is drawn with smaller base labeled 8 units. The larger base is not labeled but has a 40 degree angle on each end. The legs of the trapezoid are both labeled 10 units.
83.5 sq. units
96.4 sq. units
70.2 sq. units
100.7 sq. units
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Question 94715: The area of a rectangle is 18 square inches. The length of the rectangle is twice its width. Find the length and width of the rectangle.

bxh=18in.??
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Question 111103: What is the area of a rectangle with a diagonal of 5 inches?
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Question 111411: What is the approximate area of the region bounded by the graphs:
y equals one-half times x squared plus 2., x = 0 , x = 3 and y = 0 (the yellow region)?
Show all work to receive credit.
The graph of y equals one-half times x squared plus 2 is drawn. The area under the graph and bounded by the lines y equals 0, x equals zero and x equals 3 is shaded yellow.
I know this sounds confusing, I couldn't figure out how to draw it. On the graph
it looks like a parabala the yellow region is on the positive side of the x axis beneath the parabala. It is divided into 3 sections. (1,0)(2,0)and(3,0)
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Question 111917: Find the area of a regular pentagon with apothem 15 meters. Show all work to receive credit.
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Question 112279: The length of a rectangle is 8 cm mor than 3 times its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm.
B. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 112281: The length of a rectangle is 8 cm mor than 3 times its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm.
A. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Question 112280:
The length of a rectangle is 8 cm mor than 3 times its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm.
B. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 112278: The length of a rectangle is 8 cm mor than 3 times its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm.
A. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

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Question 112277: The length of a rectangle is 8 cm mor than 3 times its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 cm.
A. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
B. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 112496: please help me on this problem!
A contractor has been assigned the job of painting the rooms of an office building. Each floor of the building has 12 identical rooms that need to be painted. The four walls and the ceiling of each room will be painted. Each room is 12 ft. by 14 ft. and has a height of 10 ft.One wallhas a door with dimensions of 8 ft. by 3 ft. and another wall has a window that is 5 ft. by 3 ft. If the contractor charged $0.75 per square foot for labor and paint,how many floors were painted if the bill was $17,523?
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Question 112529: I need your help I will appreciate it.
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo,Egypt is a square pyramid. Each edge of the base is 751 feet and the slant height of each face is 610 feet. Find the approximate surface area of the pyramid.

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Question 112756: The shape of Colorado is nearly a rectangle. The length is 100 miles than the width. The perimeter is about 1320 mi. Find the length and width of colorado.
thanks
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Question 112803: PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS PROBLEM
A can of green beans is a cylinder with a diameter of 3.5 inches and a height of 6 cm. What is the area of the label around the can?

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Question 112792: PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS PROBLEM
A can of green beans is a cylinder with a diameter of 3.5 inches and a height of 6 cm. What is the area of the label around the can?
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Question 112804: A can of green beans is a cylinder with a diameter of 3.5 inches and a height of 6 cm. What is the surface area of the label around the can?

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Question 113052: Calculate the perimeter of a figure if one side is 4.5ft,another side is 1.7ft., another side is 1.5ft., another side is 8.8ft, another side is 1.9ft., and the last side is 2.2ft.
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