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Question 418180: in triangle abc, side ab = 17 inches and side bc = 25 inches. what could be the length of side ac?
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Question 418238: a student states that sin A is greater than sin X because the lengths of the sides of triangle ABC are greater than the lengths of the sides of triangle XYZ. What is the student's error? show explaination.
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Question 418392: What is the greatest possible area of a right triangle with a hyptenuse of 30 inches?
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Question 417238: Find the length of the side of a square whose diagonal is 24 cm.
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Question 418717: The sides of and isosceles triangle have lengths 5, 10, and 10. What are the measures of its angles?
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Question 418917: how can you tell what is a right or left triangle by just having numbers like 9in,12in,15in
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Question 419652: The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 35 cm. If the length of each of the congruent sides is 3 times the length of the third side, find the dimensions of the triangle.
So far I've got:
a + b + c = 35
3b = a
3b = c
I'm not sure if that's even right, though.
Thank you.
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Question 419703: Refer to the figure below to find the measure.

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If CR = 3, RA = 5, and CS = 4, find SB. SB= 6 2/3

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If CR = 2, RA = 3, and BC = 10, find CS. CS=4

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If CR = 4, RA = 6, and RS = 10, find AB.

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If AC = 3, BC = 5, and AB = 7, find AD: and DB:

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If AB = 10, AC = 6, and BC = 6, find AD:5 and DB: 5

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Given: 1 = 2
If AC:BC = 3:5 and AB = 12, find AD:4.5 and DB: 7.5

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In the figure below, the segment is parallel to one side of the triangle. Find the values of x and y .

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In the figure below, the segment is parallel to one side of the triangle. Find the value of x .
x =
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Question 419878: if the lenghs of a right triangle measure 9 feet and 12 feet. what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 419741: How do you do indirect proofs?
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Question 420108: Describe the possible lengths of the third side of the triangle given the lengths 5inches, 12 inches?
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Question 420035: What is the area of a triangle whos sides are 30,40,50 meters
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Question 420001: The sum of three numbers is 32 the difference between the largest and the smallest number is 17. The sum of the two smaller numbers is 13 find the numbers
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Question 420067: http://www.learningbygrace.org/geom/images/geom_11.2.gif
Complete the following proofs:
If two angles form a linear pair, then they are supplementary.
Statement 1: Ang ABD and Ang DBC form a Linear Pair. Reason: Given
Statement 2: Ang ABD + Ang DBC = Ang ABC. Reason: Definition of ____.
Statement 3: Ang ABC = ___. Reason: Definition of a Straight Angle
Statement 4: Ang ABD + Ang DBC = 180. Reason: _____.
Statement 5: Ang ABD and Ang DBC are supplementary. Reason: Definition of ____.
Not all choices will be used, and some choices may be used more than once.
a) Supplementary Angles
b) Linear Pair
c) Substitution
d)180
I know that statement 1 is given and statement 3 is 180 degrees, but I'm confused about the others. I think #2 is Linear pair, #4 is Supplementary Angles, and #5 is Linear Pair. Help me please.
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Question 420505: How do i find the degree measurement of an acute angle?
short leg=5
long leg=20
hypotenuse=x
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Question 420829: You have a right triangle with angles 30, 60 and 90. One of the leg's measure is 4, what is the measure of the other leg?
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Question 420940: A triangle has a base of 9 inches and a height of 4 inches. What is the area of the triangle?
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Question 421332: In right triangle ABC, CD is the altitude drawn to hypotenuse AB. AD is 2 units less than DB, and CD=3. In this triangle, which statement is true:
1) CD is less than DB
2) CD is equal to DB
3) CD is greater than DB
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Question 421490: The question says: Find x and the measure of each side of the triangle.
This is the problem:
Triangle FGH is equilateral with FG= x+5, GH= 3x-9, and FH= 2x-2. I don't understand how to find the answer.
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Question 421580: In a right triangle, if r and s are the lengths of the legs and t is the length of the hypotenuse, then?
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Question 421835: The angles of a triangle are 3x, (2x+20), and (5x-40).Find the angles. Show that the triangle is an eqilateral triangle.
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Question 422101: I need your help please. I dont understand how to find the perimeter of an isosceles triangle with one side that measures 5ft. and two sides that measure 11ft. each?
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Question 422161: I need help on figuring this problem out please. The height of a triangle is three feet longer than the base. The area of the triangle is 44 square feet. Find the height and base of the triangle
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Question 422308: Is it possible to determine a triangle type if you only know the base and height?
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Question 422365: In a right triangle find the length of the side not given.
b=1 and c= SQRT 5 and a= ?
I am not good with these type of problems at all so have no work to show what so ever.
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Question 422445: what class does a 225 degree angle belong to?
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Question 422494: if the three angles are a,b,and y and a=1/6b and y=1/2b,find all angles.
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Question 422610: a triangle has sides that measure 4 m, 4 m, and 4 m. what are the measures of its angles
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Question 422608: a triangle has sides that measure 4 m, 4 m, and 4 m, what are the measures of its angles?
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Question 422613: The measure of one angle of a triangle is 55 degrees. A second angle contains 2/3 as many degrees as the third angle. How many dgrees in the largest angle?
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Question 422560: A triangle has side lengths 6 cm, 10 cm, 13 cm. What are the side lengths of a similar triangle?
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Question 422823: Could someone please help me ? Triangle ABC: angle B is 5 times angle A and angle C is 18 degrees than 4 times angle A Find the size of the angles
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Question 422937: which is larger, a triangle with an area of 25 square yards, or a triangle with an area of 25 square meters?
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Question 422949: in a right triangle there a two acute angles what is there measure
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Question 423008: how do i find out if the 3 side lengths are given if it's a right, acute or obtuse triangle?
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Question 423137: How would I use the Pythagorean theorem to determine if given measures could be sides of a right triangle? (eg. 12,34,37)
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Question 423137: How would I use the Pythagorean theorem to determine if given measures could be sides of a right triangle? (eg. 12,34,37)
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Question 423124: if a triangle has 5',12',and 13' sides, what is the area in square feet
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Question 423229: one leg of a right triangle is twice as long as the other leg. the length of the hypotenuse is 20 squared. what is the length of each leg
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Question 423468: how do you find the area of an equilateral triangle???
thanks...
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Question 423616: A triangle has an area of 36 square units. Which of the following can be possible lengths for the base and height? (1 point)
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Question 423625: Can Someone Please Help me?

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Question 423816: What is the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 68 millimeters and a leg of 60 milimeters
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Question 423818: If an isosceles right triangle has an area of 18, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
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