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Question 439871: What is the greatest possible value of the perimeter of a triangle when 1 side has a measurement of 5, another is 8 and the 3rd is missing?

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Question 439855: the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle has lenght 13. what is the lenghth of the side opposite the 60 degree angle?
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Question 439812: A 45-foot ladder leans against a building point 27 feet above the ground. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the building?
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Question 440509: A rectangular prism has a surface area pf 2200 square centimeters and a volume of 6000 cubic centimeters. What are its dimensions?
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Question 440596: A side of an equilateral triangle is 40 m long. What is the area of the triangle?
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Question 440636: Is a triangle with the side lengths of 8,11,14 a right triangle
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Question 440790: the sides of a triangle are 3,5 and 7. if the shortest side of a similiar triangle measures 9, find the longest side
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Question 440793: In an isosceles right triangle, the hypotenuse is 12 inches, how long are the other legs?
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Question 440792: the sides of a pentagon are 5,8,9,11, and 17. What is the length of the longest side of a similar pentagon whose shortest side is 10?
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Question 441093: in an isosceles right triangle the hypotenuse is 12 inches how long are the other legs?
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Question 441234: I know that this statement is false :
"If it is an equilateral triangle, then its angles add up to 200 degrees"
However, my Professor wants us to create a counterexample to prove this is false even though the statement is false. Help?
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Question 441335: A right triangle has a hypotenuse with a length of 8 inches and a leg with a length of 5 inches. What is the length of the other leg?

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Question 441354: a triangle has sides measuring 5 inches and 8 inches. if x represents inches of the third side, what is the inequality for the value of x
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Question 442105: If two sides of a triangle are 32 cm and 20 cm, can the third side be 10 cm?
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Question 442022: A segment is divided into two parts having lengths in the ratio of 5:3. If the difference between the length of the parts is 6", find the length of each part? I tried doing it like And i got (x = 1 1/3) and it was wrong what do I need to do?

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Question 442432: area of an isosceles triangle is 60sq. cm. the same two side of is 13 cm, what is the other one leangth ??
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Question 442502: If a right triangle has sides of 3 and 5, what is the measurement of the other side?
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Question 443078: If one side of a triangle is 72 inches and the other is 108 inches what is the other side if the angle is 90 degrees where the two meet (the 72 and the 108 sides )
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Question 443274: Two triangles one with sides 5, 5, and 4 the other with side 5, 5, and x the triangles have the same area and are not congruent what is x?
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Question 443328: From a point on a straight road, John and Fred ride bicycles in opposite directions. John rides 9 miles per hour and Fred rides 13 miles per hour. In how many hours will they be 88 miles apart?
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Question 443400: how to find the missing measure of each right triangle. a=5 m, b= 4m
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Question 443364: On a graph paper the line y=3x+1 is graphed, what is the lines slope angle?
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Question 443778: If the lengths of two sides of a triangle are 4 and 13, what is the range of possible lengths for the third side?

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Question 443778: If the lengths of two sides of a triangle are 4 and 13, what is the range of possible lengths for the third side?

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Question 443981: Find the area of an equilateral triangle with sides 12cm each. I tried this problem three times but got a differnt awnser each time.
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Question 444115: How many different isosceles triangles are possible if the sides must have whole number lengths and the perimeter must be ninety-three inches?
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Question 444309: The height of a triangle is 4 times the length of the base. The area of the triangle is 18 square feet. Find the height and base of the triangle.
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Question 444392: There is a shape which is made from a quarter-circle of a radius of 3cm and two equilateral traingles. Outside of this shape there is an angle x. How can I work out the angle x?
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Question 444652: claculate the perimeter of a right triangle where the lags are 6 cm and 8 cm
AND HOW
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Question 444471: how do you get the area of a triangle 14 in x 5 in could you explain how you do it
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Question 445127: a flower bed is in the shape of a triangle with one side twice the length of the shortest side, and the third side is 25 feet more than the length of the shortest side. find the dimensions if the perimeter is 165 feet
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Question 445198: The Earth is approximately a sphere. Its diameter is about 12 730 Km. Whater covers approximately 66% of the Earth's surface. How many Square kilometers of land covers the earth?
AND HOW?

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Question 445399: a garden has the shape of a right triangle with one leg 5 meters longer than the other. the hypotenuse is 5 meters less than twice the length of the shorter leg
what is the length of the shorter leg?
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Question 445452: In triangle ABC, A=40 degrees, B=60 degrees, and a=5. Find b.
How do I figure this out?
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Question 445463: one leg of a right triangle is 7 units longer than the length of the other leg if the hypotenuse is 13 then find the other two legs decide what to make x write and equation would it be 13=7+2(x) with x=3?

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Question 445796: Triangle RST is a right triangle and < S is a right angle. The measure of
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Question 446020: A 15 ft ladder is leaning against a house at a 60 degree angle with the ground. How far is the ladder from the house
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Question 446240: A triangle has side lengths of 18 & 13. Which of the following could not be a measure of the third side?
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Question 446283: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 4 cm longer than the shortest side and 2 cm longer than the remaining side. Find the dimensions of the triangle.

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Question 446370: I am an under grad college newbie, I am struggling with an assignment question pertaining to finding the area in a triangle figure. The question asks to find the area in this figure. 5/4m is inside the triangle and 10/7 is below the triangle? What is the formula to come up with the correct answer?
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Question 446376: A billboard is on top of a building. You are 134.9 feet from the building. You measure the angle of elevation of the bottom of the billboard as 39.4 degrees and the angle of elevation of the top of the billboard as 47degrees. How tall is the billboard?
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