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Question 936850: A rectangular field is 400 feet long and 300 feet wide. You want to walk from one corner to the
opposite corner. How many feet of walking would you save if you walk across the field instead of
walking the length and width?
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Question 937114: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third is 20 cm longer than each of the other sides. The perimeter is no less than 95 cm. At least how long are the sides of the triangle?
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Question 937219: I have two square laws. 1st is 20 meters square and 2 nd is 35 meters square. Find the ratio of time to cut the lawns.
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Question 937246: A 6 ft ladder is placed against a wall its base 2 ft from the wall. How high above the ground is the top of the ladder?
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Question 937301: What is the length of a room that contains 252 square feet and is 18 feet wide.

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Question 937342: I am painting the four walls and a ceiling of a room. The room is 600cm long by 450cm wide and 300 cm high. What is the area?
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Question 937478: If each side of a square is enlarged three times, by how many times is it's area increased?
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Question 937486: If the garden is 18 m long and 12 m wide. What is its perimeter?
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Question 937346: the perimeter of a rectangle is 26 inches. the length of the rectangle is 1.6 times the width of the rectangle. what is the length of the rectangle
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Question 937353: Find the optimal value(s) of the objective function on the feasible set S.
Z = 3x + 2y
(3,5) (1,3) S, (1,1), (6,1)
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Question 937517: Find the center and radius of a circle circumscribing a triangle with the vertices (5,1) (-6,0), (-1,-7)
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Question 937599: A 36 ft ladder is used to reach the top of a 28 ft wall. if the ladder extends 2 ft past the top of the wall, find its elevation to the horizontal.
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Question 937714: Paul's room is 12 feet long, 10 feet wide and 8 feet high. He wants to paint the walls and the ceiling. A gallon of paint covers 500 square feet. Will paul be able to paint the room with one gallon of paint?

Formula i used S=Ph or S=Ph+2B
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Question 937614: simplify 1-2+3-4+...+49-50+49-48+47-46+...+1.please help.thanks in advance
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Question 937764: I have a 5 x 7 horizontal photograph. If I want to blow it up to be 4 feet wide, how tall would it be? How do I solve that for any width I choose?
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Question 937762: In an isoceles triangle, the length of the third side is 25% of one of the equal sides. Find the length of each side when perimeter is equal to 135 ft.

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Question 937835: Looking for help to solve the following geometry problem. One side of a triangle is 18 cm. Inside the triangle, a segment is drawn parallel to the 18 cm side, forming a trapezoid whose area is 1/3 that of the original triangle. Find the length of this segment.
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Question 937873: the perimeter of rectangular cloth is 24 decimeters (dm). what is the width in cm if its length is 7 decimeters (dm)

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Question 937786: A cube has each of its edges doubled. Find the ratio of the volume of the first cube to that of the second cube. Find also the ratio of the area of a face of the first cube to that of the second cube

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Question 937809: please help me to calculate 12-in W x 12-in L
Gray Concrete Square Patio Stone
$1.50 / Stone
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Question 937906: Two vertical poles 2 metres and 8 metres high stand apart on a horizontal plane . the height in metres of the point of intersection of the lines joining the top of each pole to the bottom of the other pole is
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Question 938039: In a survey of 325 individual investors regarding subscriptions to the New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and USA Today (UST), the following data were obtained.
124 subscribe to the NYT.
150 subscribe to the WSJ.
70 subscribe to the UST.
35 subscribe to the NYT and WSJ.
25 subscribe to the WSJ and UST.
22 subscribe to the NYT and UST.
53 do not subscribe to any of these newspapers.
(a) How many of the individual investors surveyed subscribe to all three newspapers?
investors
(b) How many subscribe to only one of these newspapers?
investors
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Question 938034: In how many ways can a subcommittee of five be chosen from a Senate committee of six Democrats and four Republicans if
(a) All members are eligible?

(b) The subcommittee must consist of three Republicans and two Democrats?

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Question 938035: graduate students have applied for four available teaching assistantships. In how many ways can these assistantships be awarded among the applicants if
a) No preference is given to any one student?

(b) One particular student must be awarded an assistantship?

(c) The group of applicants includes eight men and six women and it is stipulated that at least one woman must be awarded an assistantship?

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Question 938142: hello, you please help me with this Pythagorean theorem question?
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Question 938179: I have a wall panel that is 58 inches by 33.5 inches. What is the square footage of the panel.
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Question 938166: Cylinder A has a volume of 360 cm3. Cylinder B has a base and height identical to that of cylinder B, but leans to the right in such a way that its slant length is greater by 4 cm. What is the volume of cylinder B?

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Question 938211: What is the area in yd2 If the length is 10yd and the width is 36ft
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Question 938036: In how many different ways can a panel of 12 jurors and 2 alternates be chosen from a group of 20 prospective jurors?
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Question 938037: Lynbrook West, an apartment complex financed by the State Housing Finance Agency, consists of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The rental rate for each type of unit�low, moderate, or market�is determined by the income of the tenant. How many different rates are there?
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Question 938325: ribbon A is 1/3m long. it is 2/5m shorter than ribbon b. what is the total length of the ribbon?
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Question 938386: A ladder is

104
inches tall. How tall is it in feet and inches?

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Question 938416: what unit can be used to measure the approximate volume of a storage shed?
Can you please help!!!!!
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Question 938346: write 7/12500000 in scientific notation.please help with a little explanation.thanks so much and more power.
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Question 938434: edwin bends a 48 inch wire to form a recatangle. If the width of the rectangle measures 2 times its length, what is the length of the wire
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Question 938331: 7x^8 -2 state whether the following expression is a polynomial, if it is give its degree if not state why
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Question 938328: Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. Which day of the week was he born?
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Question 938596: A sqare has a side 7 feet what is the area of the sqare

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Question 938888: a piece of wood is cut into 3 pieces the 2nd piece is 4 ft longer than the first piece, the 3rd piece is three times as long as the 1st piece but 5 ft shorter. if the board was 49ft long, find the length of each piece.
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Question 939000: a stage is 10 yards long and 5 yards wide. an orchestra in front of the stage is 4 yards long and 2 yards wide. how much floor space do the stage and the orchestra pit take up?
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Question 939077: The area of rectangle plot is 2028 sq.m .the length and the breadth of the plot are in the ratio 4:3.find the cost of fencing the plot at �6�45per metre.
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Question 939149: The floor of a rectangular deck has an area of 600 sq. ft. The floor is 20 ft. wide. How long is the floor?
A. 20 ft.
B. 30 ft.
C. 15 ft.
D. 45 ft.
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Question 939151: The floor of a rectangular deck has an area of 600 sq. ft. The floor is 20 ft. wide. How long is the floor?
A. 20 ft.
B. 30 ft.
C. 15 ft.
D. 45 ft.
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