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Question 939146: Determine, to three significant figures, the length of the side of a square in which the area of the square is seven more than twice the perimeter

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Question 939020: In a manufacturing plant, three machines, A, B, and C, produce 40%, 33%, and 27%, respectively, of the total production. The company's quality-control department has determined that 1.5% of the items produced by Machine A, 2% of the items produced by Machine B, and 2.5% of the items produced by Machine C are defective. If an item is selected at random and found to be defective, what is the probability that it was produced by Machine B? (Round your answer to three decimal places)
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Question 939239: The length of a rectangular painting is 3 inches longer than its width. If the diagonal is 15 inches long, what is the length of the painting?
A.
9 inches
B.
12 inches
C.
13 inches
D.
18 inches

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Question 939248: architect is trying to draw on an isosceles triangle on a grid to use in his next blueprint. He has a point at (6, 3) and a point at (-2, 3). What could be the third point?
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Question 938170: Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle. m A is 64�, m B is (6x + 4)�, and m C is (9x - 1)�. What is m D?
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Question 939319: a cereal box has a volume of 3000cm cubed. If its length is 20 cm and its width is 5cm, what is the height?
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Question 939392: the length of rectangle is 1cm less than twice the width. the perimeter is 28cm. find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 939329: Find area of triangle if one side is 261 ft the other is 200 ft and third side is 176 ft
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Question 939442: a paratrooper encounters stronger winds then anticipated while parachuting from 1350 feet, causing him to drift at an angle of 8 degrees. how far from the drop zone will paratrooper land?
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Question 939632: The length and the breadth of hall are in the ratio 5:4. If the breadth of the hall is 70m. Find its area?
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Question 939643: the length of a new rectangular playing field is 5 yards longer than double the width. If the perimeter of the rectangular playing field is 334 yards, what are its dimensions
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Question 939616: what is the perimeter of an ellipse with an area equal to 12pi square units if the non-opposite vertices are 5 units apart?
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Question 939709: a rectangular piece of paper has a length of 25cm and a breadth of 20 cm. The piece of paper is cut into a number of identical squares such that no part of the paper is left unused.
(i) Calculate the largest possible length of each aquare piece that can be cut.
(ii) how many squares pieces are obtained?
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Question 939782: The diagonal of one cube has a length of 22cm. A diagonal of another cube is 42cm. The larger cube has a volume of 64cm^3. Find the volume of the smaller cube.
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Question 939903: Plz help me solve this question
Q1 .A rectangular piece of land measures 0.8 dm by .5 dm it is to be fenced with four lines of wire what length of wire is needed
Q2. A rectangular garden is 105 metre by 75 metre. how many round of this garden will a boy make, if he runs 3600 metres.
Q3. Find the perimeter of square equal in area to two squares whose sides are 12 metres and 5 metres respectively.
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Question 940146: If x = 5 inches, y = 2 inches, and z = 3 feet, what is the volume of wood used to make the gate, to the nearest cubic inch?
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Question 940329: A finished quilt consists of 28 rectangular pieces, each measuring 4in X 6in. What is the total area it will cover (in inches) ?

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Question 940303: The length of a rectangle (L) is 8in. more than its width (W). The perimeter of the rectangle is 24in. What are the width and length of the triangle.
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Question 940346: A line segment is 8cm more than 3 times the length of another. Their difference is 42cm. How long are they?
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Question 940235: Shelby made a scale drawing of a house and its lot. The front patio, which is 9 meters wide (L1) in real life, is 6 millimeters wide (L2)in the drawing. What scale factor (SF) does the drawing use?
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Question 939604: A room is 12 ft by 20 ft. It needs to be painted. The ceiling is 8 ft above the floor. There are two windows in the room, each one is 3 ft by 4 ft. The door is 2.5 ft by 6.5 ft.
a.) find the area of the walls and ceiling to be painted
b. ) one gallon of paint covers 70.87 sq ft. How many gallons are needed to paint the room?
c.) at $22.47 a gallon, what is the cost to paint the room?
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Question 939100: A home is built on a 56 ft 9 in wide lot. The house is 5ft 5in from the side of the lot and is 34 ft 10 in wide. How far is the house from the other side of the lot? Need the answer in inches
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Question 938597: The area (A) of a rectangular ice - skating rink is 900 square yards if the length (L) of the rink is 100 yards what is the width (W)of the rink?

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Question 938590: A rectangular ceiling tile has a perimeter of 134 inches and an area of 1,102 square inches. What are the dimensions of the tile?
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Question 940373: What is the area of the circumcircle of a triangle whose sides are length 6,8 and 10?
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Question 938579: an observer is lying on the ground 200 feet from the spot directly below the balloon watching the balloon rise. If the angle of elevation from the observer to the balloon is 30 degrees, how high is the balloon?
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Question 938257: the areas of two similar tetrahedrons are 24 square inches and 96 square inches. find the ratio of their volumes

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Question 936929: Please help me solve this equation: If angle A is 8 degrees less than three times angle B. If side by side they form a straight angle, find each angle.
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Question 940412: the perimeter of a rectangle is 480 ft and the sides are in a ratio of 5:1. what are the length and width of the two sides of the rectangle
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Question 940492: This problem is actually for ALG 1 but I can't remember how to complete it? Please help?!
PROBLEM:
The second side of a triangular deck is 5 feet longer than the shortest side and a third side that is 5 feet shorter than twice the length of the shortest side. if the perimeter of the deck is 68 feet, what are the lengths of the three sides?
ANSWER:
The shortest side of the deck is...feet?
The second side of the deck is...feet?
The third side of the deck is� feet?
(Simplify all answers)
So that's the ALG 1 word problem. Please help? I'm stumped on how to solve this math problem.
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Question 940674: a rectangular floor measures 6m by 8m. It is lined with bricks each 20cm long placed end to end long each side. How many bricks are there around the edge of the floor?

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Question 940694: from a square sheet of cardboard 8 in by 11 in, square corners are cut out so the sides can be folded up to make a box. what dimensions will yield a box of max. volume?
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Question 940977: A teacher wants to demonstrate pie to her students, so she plans to cut a piece of wood 2pie feet in length and show her class . Explain why she cannot do this , then give the approximation for how long the piece of wood should be

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Question 941035: How to solve a surface area using algebra..Please help me
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Question 941060: A square rug measures 4x+1 on a side. Find the expression for the area of the rug.
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Question 941044: The area of a rectangular garden is 35 square meters. If the length is 2 meters greater than the width, find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 941038: One side of the rectangular garden is 2 yd less than the other side. The area of the garden is 63 yd^2. Find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 940495: The perimeter of a square is less than 28cm,what can be said about the length of one of its side?

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Question 941039: A banner is in the shape of a right triangle of area 63 in^2. The height of the banner is 4 inches less than twice the width of the banner. Find the height and the width of the banner.
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Question 941343: the perimeter of a regular polygon is 36 centimeters. the length of one side is 4.5 centimeters. which identifies the polygon?
A. decagon
B. hexagon
C. octagon
D. pentagon
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Question 941337: Please help me solve this question: the area of a rectangular field is 153 square yards. If one side of the field measures 9 yards, how many yards of fence do you need to go around the field?
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Question 941562: The perimeter of a triangular lot is 117m. The lengths of two sides are each 4/5 of the length of the third side. Find the length of each side.
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Question 941561: A rectangular parking lot has a perimeter of 310 meters. The length is 5 meters more than 4 times the width. What is the length and width?
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