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Question 935035: A rectangular lot is to be enclosed with 500 feet of fencing. The area of the lot is 14,400 square feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangular lot.
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Question 935120: A 7200 square feet rectangular land need to be fenced
What is the length of the fence in yards if the length of the land is twice the width?
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Question 935196: the area of a square garden is 625 meter square.find its length.
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Question 934423: in working with a scale factor, what would be the dimensions of a cylinder whose height is 4.8 inches and diameter is 2.5 inches using a scale factor of 3. I tried just multiplying the cylinder height and width by 3 and made a model which appears proportionately way too large. Thanks
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Question 935222: To build a box, you find a square piece of cardboard that measures 10 inches on each side. From each corner of the cardboard, you cut out congruent squares. Use the picture to find the area of the cardboard you will use for your box.

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Question 935235: The vertex of an isoceles trangle is twice the measure of each base angle. What is the measure of the vertex angle?
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Question 935237: Each leg of an isosceles triangle is 3 more than twice the measure of the base. If the perimeter 41cm,how long is the base?
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Question 935238: An angle is 30 degrees less than the measure of its supplement. Find the measure of the supplement.
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Question 935239: The measure of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 4:5:6. Find the measure of the largest angle.
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Question 935239: The measure of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 4:5:6. Find the measure of the largest angle.
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Question 935343: A floor 8m 20cm by 6m is to be covered with a tiles of size 20cm by15cm. Find the number of tiles required and cost of the tiles come at �6�4240 for 15 tiles.
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Question 935425: How many metres of carpet 63cm wide will be needed to cover the floor of a room 14m by 9m.

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Question 934260: the area of a rectangle is 350 cm2 if the width and the length are in a ratio of 7:2 find the dimensions
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Question 935521: An artist drew a painting with similar rectangles with whole-number dimensions in inches. The small rectangle is 8 inches by 3 inches. One dimension of the medium rectangle is 9 inches. One dimension of the large rectangle is 32 inches. What are the dimensions of the medium and large rectangles.
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Question 935643: how many cubic feet of concrete will be needed for a driveway section that is 10 feet long 8 feet wide and 1/2 foot thick ?
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Question 935656: The interior angles of a convex nonagon have degree measures that are integers in arithmetic sequence. What is the smallest angle possible in this nonagon?
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Question 935660: The perimeter of a parallelogram is 60. If one side is 5 longer than the side next to it, what are the lengths of the sides?
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Question 935715: Timber (wood size 20' length x 3' perimeter). what is the cubic feet of this timber?
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Question 935709: when area of rectangular field is 25000 metre square(2.5 hectares) and its sides are in the ratio 3:2. find perimeter?
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Question 935830: One right triangle has sides of length 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm. Another right triangle
has two sides of length 3 cm and 4 cm, but it is not congruent to the first triangle. What is the length of the third side of this triangle? Express your answer in
simplest radical form
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Question 935930: A contractor uses the expression 7(x+3) to find the length in feet of chains that he needs for a certain project. The contractor needs four chains that are this length. What is the total length of all of the chains?

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Question 935971: Given the equation 4x + 5y = 3, If x decreases by 10 units, what is the corresponding change in y? please show every step
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Question 935971: Given the equation 4x + 5y = 3, If x decreases by 10 units, what is the corresponding change in y? please show every step
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Question 936058: The area of a rectangle is 4 ft2. If the length is 5 ft, what is the width?
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Question 936106: If the line passing through the points
(a, 1) and (1, 8)
is parallel to the line passing through the points
(12, 5) and (a + 2, 1),
what is the value of a?
a =
please show all work
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Question 936133: Find an equation of the line that has slope m and y-intercept b. (Let x be the independent variable and y be the dependent variable.)
m = −8; b = −1

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Question 936203: Solve the equation which represents the locus of points equidistant from points (1,1) and (7,1)
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Question 936379: Find the point of intersection of the pair of straight lines.
6x+2y=26
−9x+5y=−19
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Question 936410: a window glass is 5ft 2 in by 3ft 5in. what is its perimeter and its area?
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Question 936135: Find the break-even point for the firm whose cost function C and revenue function R are given.
C(x) = 14x + 18,000; R(x) = 20x
(x, y) =

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Question 936418: quadrilateral ABCD HAS VERTICS a (-5,1) , b (6-1), c(3,5)and d(-2,7)

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Question 936401: ABCD is a parallelogram in which AB||CD and AD||BC. A and D bisects BC at E and meet DC extended at E.
Prove that area of triangle BCF=area of triangle DEF
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Question 936502: What is the area of the shaded segment in the figure at the right?
Use at least three steps. Show your work. Leave your answer in
terms of p and in simplest radical form.
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Question 936585: What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle whose one side is 5x-2 and another side that is equal to x
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Question 936648: A woman bought 65 lb. of fertilizer to spread over her rectangular backyard. if she spread it at a rate of 20 lb. to 1000 ft. and the length of the yard exceeds the width by 10 ft., what were the dimensions of the yard?
This is a word problem in a certain chapter in our book which deals all about Quadratic Equations. I hope you could help me out. Thanks.
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Question 933701: Mr. Thomas wants to replace the tiles around his pool. The shape of his pool is shown.

If the perimeter of his pool is 154 feet, what is the missing side length?

27

50

54

104
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Question 936753: a box in a form of a rectangle solid has a square base of 5 feet in length, a width of 5 feet and a height of h feet if the volume of the rectangular solid id 200 cubic feet, which equation may be used to find h ?
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Question 933631: the perimeter of a rectangular garden is 38 ft. the width of the gardem is one less than 3 times the length. determine the length and width of the garden

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Question 936834: Question Part

Determine the value of k for which the system of linear equations
3x− y= 5
6x+ ky= 5
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Question 936845: Tell me the answer for this guestion.....line that run stright across.
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Question 936895: A garden in the form of a right angled triangle has sn area of 72sq.m. if the two sides comprising the right angle are equal. What could be the length of these sides.
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Question 936963: How do you find the dimensions of the bottom of a box if the bottom of the box is 7ft
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Question 936963: How do you find the dimensions of the bottom of a box if the bottom of the box is 7ft
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