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Question 574820: the side of an equilateral triangle is x . its area is ___________ its perimeter is ________________.

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Question 575123: how to find length of hypotenuse of a right angled triangle if the length is 6cm and 8cm
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Question 575090: how do you find the length of the side of an right angle triangle when you know the length of one side
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Question 575144: in a 30-60-90 triangle, what is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to the shorter leg?
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Question 575180: The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 17 inches more than the perimeter of a square, and the side of the triangle is 8 inches longer than the side of the square. Find the side of the triangle.
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Question 575111: If the area of an isosceles triangle is x sq. cm and each of the congruent sides measures y cm, find the measure of its base?
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Question 575263: classify ABC by its side and angles. all angles equal 40 degrees. what type of triangle is it?
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Question 575441: If a triangle has a height of 12 in. and a base of 5 in., what is its area?
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Question 575440: in an isosceles triangle, the base is 14 cm long, and the legs are 13 cm long. Find the measure of the vertex angle to the nearest degree
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Question 575698: In a right angled triangle two of the angles are in the ratio 6:13.find the third angle.
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Question 575839: the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle is 14. what is the height?
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Question 575840: the hypotenuse of a 45-45-90 triangle is 30. what is the height??
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Question 575841: the hypotenuse of a 45-45-90 triangle is 6 sqrt 3. what is the height?
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Question 575838: In a computer catalog, a computer is listed as being 19 inches. The distance is the diagonal distance across the screen. If the screen measures 10 inches in height, what is the actual width of the screen to the nearest inch?
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Question 575894: "Nate built a skateboard ramp that covers a horizontal distance of 10ft. The ramp rises a total of 3.5ft. What angles does the ramp make with the ground?"
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Question 576106: In the right triangle the ratio of the measures of three sides are 2 4 8, and its perimeter is 280 inches. find the length to the longest side.
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Question 576246: What is the area of an equilateral triangle that has an altitude of 9?
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Question 576268: To find the height of a flagpole, a surveyor moves 90 feet away from the base of the flagpole and then, with a transit 3 feet tall, measures the angle of elevation to the top of the flagpole to be 60�. What is the height of the flagpole? Round your answer to the nearest foot.
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Question 576278: A boat in calm seas travels in a straight line and ends the trip 16 km west and 50 km north of its original position. Find the direction of the trip to the nearest tenth of a degree.
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Question 576285: if a squeare has side lenght 3 m, then its perimeter is 12m
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Question 576352: If a triangle is a 3-4-5 right triangle, and the altitude has been drawn to the hypotenuse, how do I find the altitude?
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Question 576438: If you had a Tan problem with an angel of elevation at 30 and the height of a triangle was 19,340 feet. And you were trying to find the base or in this case 'x', would the equation equal 170 feet?
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Question 576427: If the perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 33. How do I find one of its altitudes?
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Question 576500: I need help on some homework please and thank you.
Given the following measurements, A=42degrees, a=44cm, and c=58cm how many solutions are possible?
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Question 576551: The length of two sides of a triangle are 15 inches each. The third side measures 10 inches. What type of triangle is this? Explain your answer using geometric terms. Thank, you
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Question 576573: Two sides of a triangle are 5 feet and 7 feet. What could not be the length of the third side?
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Question 576581: One leg of a right triangle measures 5 inches; the hypotenuse measures 13 inches. What is the measure, in inches, of the other leg?
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Question 576617: What is the rule/formula for telling wether any given lengths form a triangle
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Question 576621: If the base of a triangle is 25 ft, why does the height have to be 10 ft?
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Question 576647: What is the hypotenuse of a right triangle if it's legs are 12cm and 16cm
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Question 576622: Find a formula for the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs have lengths of A and B.
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Question 576622: Find a formula for the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs have lengths of A and B.
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Question 576714: what is the base of a right triangle with a height of 5 and a hypotenuse of 8?

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Question 577000: Suppose you need to walk from a point P to a Point Q. You can either walk in a line from P to Q or you can walk in a line from P to another point R and then walk in a line from R to Q. Which one is shorter? Please provide proof!
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Question 576982: what is the area of a triangle if the base is 10 meters and the height is 6 meters ?
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Question 575823: If a triangle has angles of 50� and 120�, what is the third angle? How do you know?

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Question 577147: Please help me solve this, its for a quiz grade and im clueless on how to solve this.
Show that in a 30-60-90 triangle, the altitude to the hypotenuse divides the hypotenuse in the ratio 1:3. In triangle ABC let CD be the altitude to the hypotenuse and DB=x
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Question 577192: what is the area of a triangle that has a base of 9 cm and a height of 3 cm
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Question 577285: I need help finding the area of a triangle with 22 as the base and 28 as the height.I don't get how to find the area for this. I keep searching for how to do it, but it hasn't helped.
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Question 577598: what is the area of a triagle with 7m and 3.6m
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Question 577639: The area of a triangle with base 19in and height 11 is ______ ? Be sure to include units.
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Question 577683: a triangle has the following for angles what are the angles
57
x-24
x
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Question 577693: If you are trying to find the measurement of angle C, and the measurement of angle B is 2a and measurement of angle A is a:
1) Find the measure of angle C of a triangle ABC if
a) measurement of angle A= a
b) measurement of angle B= 2a
Can you explain how to do it and solve the problem. Also if the problem said:
2) Find the measerement of angle C of a triangle is
a) measurement of angle A= 60 degrees+a
b) measurement of angle B= 60 degrees-a
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Question 577680: if a triangle has the following what are the angles
48
2x
x
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