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Question 362059: The angle of elevation of a building from a point on the ground 200 feet away from its base is 42 degrees. Find the height of the building to the nearest foot.
A. 180 feet

B. 187 feet

C. 195 feet

D. 200 feet

E. 206 feet

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Question 362141: the measures of three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4:5:6. Find the measure of each
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Question 362234: How many triangles can you make if their perimeter can only be 24 units? The demensions are only in whole numbers. The triangles can be scalene, equilateral, or isocoles.
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Question 362199: in ∆DEF, the sum of the measures of
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Question 362463: if a right triangle has a leg measuring 52 m and a hypotenuse measuring 63 m. What is the length of the other leg?

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Question 362323: Find the missing side and angles in the right triangle, where a is the side across from angle A, b across from B, and c across from the right angle. a = 23, c = 26.
Keep three significant digits.
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Question 362586: Two angles are supplementary. One is 15 degrees more than four times the other. Find the measures of the angles.
What is the smaller angle?
What is the other angle?
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Question 362651: ho tu make a triangle whit 4 cm of base and an the load 7 cm tanks

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Question 362777: How can I solve a triangle that is not a triangle.
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Question 362896: Find the area of the triangle.
the height is dashed through the middle and says 7 and it is a 90 degree angle
and the base is twelve.

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Question 363088: Find the area of the triangle with vertices of A(0, 0), B(3, 4), and C(4, 3).
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Question 363105: Find the area of an equilateral triangle that has a perimeter of 21 inches. Round the answer to one decimal place.
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Question 363162: If one leg of a triangle is 8 feet and one leg is 21 feet. What is the remaining leg?
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Question 363162: If one leg of a triangle is 8 feet and one leg is 21 feet. What is the remaining leg?
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Question 363186: A triangle has a leg of 12 m and a hypotenuse of 13 m. Find the length of the other leg.

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Question 363186: A triangle has a leg of 12 m and a hypotenuse of 13 m. Find the length of the other leg.

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Question 363431: an isosceles triangel has a perimeter of 34cm. the congurant mesaure (4x-1) cm. the thrid leg is x. what is the lenght of each side?
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Question 363510: There are two right triangles back to back and the base of both triangles together is 20 and the two hypotenuses have a value of x. I'm supposed to find the area of the triangles together.
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Question 363473: what is the measure of each base angle of an isosceles triangle if its third angle measures 24 degrees and its two congruent sides measure 16
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Question 363685: In triangle ABC, if altitude AD is drawn to side BC, which of the following must be true?
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Question 363701: Triangles ABC and DEF are similar.

What is the measure of angle C, rounded to the nearest tenth?
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Question 363702: Right triangle FGH has leg FG with a length of 12 centimeters and leg GH with a length of 16 centimeters. To the nearest whole degree, what is the measure of angle GHF?
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Question 363760: find the measure of the third side of the triangle given its 2 sides and perimeter.
1side= 7x^2 + 5x + 9
2side= 8x^2 - 6x + 12
P= 19x^2 + 12x + 35cm
please help thank you!
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Question 363888: A baseball diamond is in the shape of a square, 90 feet on a side.
what is the direct distance from the home plate to second base?
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Question 363888: A baseball diamond is in the shape of a square, 90 feet on a side.
what is the direct distance from the home plate to second base?
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Question 363909: 2 and 1/6,2 1/6 and 1 1/4.what do i do first

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Question 363961: how can i solve this? I'm confused!
the sum of the degree measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180. Find the degree of the measures of the third angle given the degree measure of the two angles.
a. 7x^2 + 6x + 45; 5x^2 + 10x - 55
b. 3x^3 - 15x^2 - 24x + 5; 9x^2 + 30x + 36
c. 9x^4 + 58x^3 + 24x^2 - 45x + 15; 11x^4 - 47x^3 + 16x^2 - 94x + 27
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Question 364014: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 7 cm. If one leg of the triangle is 4 cm, find the other leg. Simplify your answer.

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Question 364467: Which of the following is a better buy: a large pizza with a 14-inch diameter for $12.00 or a medium pizza with a 7-inch diameter for $5.00?
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Question 364608: If a triangle's hypotenuse is 3 feet, and it's angle of incline is 25 degrees, what are the lengths of its sides?
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Question 364759: in the 45-45-90 triangle, p=6. find the other two angles
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Question 364801: my math problem saysfor each problem find the value of x (write an equation) and there is a triangle that says one side is (x+2) another side is 132 degrees and the last side is just x how do i solve it
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Question 364807: -4x-25=-27 2/3
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Question 365113: a triangle has an area of 32ft squared and has a height of 4ft
what is the length of its base??
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Question 365115: A segment 12" long is divided into two segments having lengths in the ratio of 2:3. Find the length of each segment. (Hint: Let 2x and 3x represent the length of the parts.)

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Question 365350: Okay it says The variable expressions represent the angle measures of a triangle. Find the measure of each angle. Then classify the triangle by it's angles.
1. m angle A= (x+30) degrees
m angle B= x degrees
m angle C= (x+60) degrees
What does this mean?
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Question 365392: can a triangle ever have more than one acute exterior angle?EXPLAIN..
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Question 365393: the length of the two sides of a triangle are 9 and 5.Suppose the length of the third side is an integer. Give all the possible lengths for the third side. PLEASE EXPLAIN THE ANSWER
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Question 365398: What is the measure of angle C if angle A measures 48 degrees in the isosceles triangle ABC?
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Question 365426: A triangle hs a perimeter of 84 centimeters, each of the two longer sides of the triangle is three times as long as the shortest side. Find the length of each side of the triangle
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Question 365655: why cant a polygon have two sides?

My work: A polygon can not have two sides because no two dimensional figure can have less than three sides.
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Question 365769: if the degree measures of the angles of a triangle are represented by x, y and x+y, what is the measure of the largest angle of the triangle.
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Question 365796: if measure angle P=21 degrees and measure angle O=37 degrees then what type of triangle is triangle pqo.

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Question 365973: find the area when b=12ft and h=5ft
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Question 365967: A.Find all of the values of x for which the measure of an acute angle is between 60 and 105, here is the main equation
(3x+18)* the mark means degrees.
B.From the range found in part A, find all values of x for which the acute angle will be obtuse. I just need equation.

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