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Question 437294: In triangle ABC, angle A=55 degrees,angle B=75 degrees.Arrange the sides of triangle ABC from shortest to longest.
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Question 437251: one leg of a right triangle has length 8 inches and the hypotenuse has length 10 inches. find the length of the third side.
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Question 437343: an isosceles triangle has a vertical angle of 120 and base 10cm long. find the length of it altitude
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Question 437273: a triangle has sides, in cm, of 3, 5 and 6. Use a=3, b=5 and c=6 to work out the area of this triangle.
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Question 437395: how many triangles of perimeter 12 inches are there if the length of each side must be a counting number?
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Question 437478: TriangleABC is an acute triangle. Two of its side measure 11cm and 14cm. What is the rangle of possible values for its third side?
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Question 437545: If i have an equilateral triangle and all the sides are 8 how do i find the height? please help.
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Question 437672: I've got a question for tonights homework in my book that asks me to find the area of a each regular polygon. The question says, " a triangle with side length 9 inches".
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Question 437674: In a right triangle, if one acute angle has measure 6x-10 and the other has measure 2x-4 , find the larger of these two angles
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Question 437780: If the first angle is equal to 3x+8 and the second angle is equal to 4x-7,what is the third angle?
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Question 437780: If the first angle is equal to 3x+8 and the second angle is equal to 4x-7,what is the third angle?
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Question 437994: A triangle has angle measurements of 55 degrees and 45 degrees. What is the measurement of the third angle?
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Question 438105: The length of each side of a scalene triangle ABC is a prime number. Find the smallest possible perimeter
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Question 438268: find x in these 45-45-90 degree angles, if one angle is 45 degrees and the hypotenuse is 8 what is the leg in square root form?
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Question 438349: Please, help me with these:
8.)If a triangle has sides of lengths 5, 12, and 13, is the triangle right?
Yes
No
Sometimes
Not enough information
9.) If a triangle has sides of lengths 8, 10 and 13, is the triangle right?
Yes
No
Sometimes
Not enough information

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Question 438523: betty is flying a kite she has 150 feet of string out and the string makes a angle of 65 degrees with the ground how high above the ground is the kite. i have no idea what to do and i have been trying for 1 hour and 37 minutes when i remembered my teacher told me about this website if i had trouble.
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Question 438617: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 13 feet long. One leg of the triangle is 5 feet longer then the other leg. Find the perimeter of the triangle
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Question 438650: Find the unknown length using th hypotenuse theory.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
b = 7, c = 12
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Question 438593: if one side of a triangle is 6 inches and the angle measures are 90 70 and 20... how do you find the area
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Question 438778: solve for x in this right triangle. if one leg of a triangle is 12 and the other leg is x and has an angle of 20 degrees what is x?
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Question 438780: The sides of one triangle measure 3, 4, and 5. The sides of a triangle measure 10, 6, and 8. Are the two triangles similar?

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Question 438886: what kind of triangle is 80 degrees

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Question 438893: In a 45 45 90 triangle the length of each leg is 6cm. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
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Question 438989: If the base and altitude of a triangle are 4 and 5 respectively, what is the area of the triangle?
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Question 438989: If the base and altitude of a triangle are 4 and 5 respectively, what is the area of the triangle?
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Question 438919: What is the hypotenuse side of a triangle if the theta angle is 171.4 and the adjacent side is 20592 feet long?
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Question 439057: which is the length of the third side of an equilateral triangle if two sides each have a length of 10 cm?
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Question 439093: Find the perimeter and area of a right triangle if one leg measures 16 ft. and the other leg measures 30 ft.Must show all work step by step. Include correct units with the solution.
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Question 439300: The perimeter of a triangle is 6x^2+11 inches. If two sides have lengths of 3x+2 and x^2+6, find the polynomial that represents the third side of the triangle. Explain your reasoning.
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Question 439298: The perimeter of a triangle is 6x2 + 11 inches. If two sides have lengths of 3x + 2 and x2 + 6, find the polynomial that represents the third side of the triangle. Explain your reasoning.
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Question 439282: Do the set of numbers 10, 11, and 20 measure the sides of a triangle?
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Question 439258: The zoo has hired a landscape architect to design the triangular lobby of the children's petting zoo. In his scale drawing, the longest side of the lobby is 9 cm. The shortest side of the lobby is 5 cm. The longest side of the actual lobby will be 30 m. How long will the shortest side of the actual lobby be? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 439407: in triangle abc angle A=53, angle B=14, and a=10. Find b to the nearest integer.
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Question 439407: in triangle abc angle A=53, angle B=14, and a=10. Find b to the nearest integer.
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Question 439421: Hilly areas often have road signs giving the percentage grade for the road. A 5% grade, for example, means that the altitude changes by 5 feet for each 100 feet of horizontal distance.
Suppose an uphill road sign indicates a road grade of 8%. What is the angle of elevation of the road?

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Question 439431: If I have a right triangle where the inside angle is 22 degrees and one side is 8 feet long, what are the dimensions of the other two sides??? This has a real world application!!
Thanks,
Rich
rjprod@cox.net
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Question 439418: Find the angle between the two sides of length 13 in an isosceles triangle that has one side of length 8 and two sides of length 13
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Question 439312: I need help on question 29 on page 432, here is the link to the question:
http://www.mrsdonavan.net/HonorsGeometry%5CCh11-Section11-2-ans.pdf
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Question 439504: a triangle sides 2y, 6y, and y + 7. what is the perimeter of the triangle when y=3?
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Question 439595: The measure of two angles of a triangle are 58 degrees and 28 degrees. classify the triangle by its angles.
A. Obtuse
B. Acute
C. Right
D. Equilateral

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Question 439420: Hilly areas often have road signs giving the percentage grade for the road. A 5% grade, for example, means that the altitude changes by 5 feet for each 100 feet of horizontal distance.
What percentage grade should be put on a road sign where the angle of elevation of the road is 2 degrees?
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Question 439037: What would be one set of possible dimension for an isosceles triangle with a perimeter of 12 units?
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Question 439726: The length of the base of an isosceles triangle is 12 cm. What are the possible lengths of the legs?

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Question 439677: the distance from point x to the point y is 20 miles and the disstance from x to z is 12 miles.if d is the distance in miles between
points y and z ,then the range of possible values for d is indicated by ?
a-8 <_ d <_20
b-8<_d<_32
c-12<_d<_20
d-12<_d<_32
c-20<_d<_32
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