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Question 941563: . A rectangular garden is 3 times as long as it is wide. If the length is decreased by 8 ft and the width is increased by 5 ft, the perimeter will be 66 ft. Find the dimensions of the original garden.
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Question 941560: The perimeter of rectagular window is 15 ft. Its width is 1/4 of its length. Find the dimensions of the window.
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Question 941558: The first side of a triangle is twice as long as the second side. The remaining side is 9 m longer than the second side. The perimeter is 53 m. How long is each side?
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Question 941557: Each of the legs of an isosceles triangle is 6 ft shorter than the base. The perimeter of the triangle is 84ft. Find the length of the base.
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Question 941556: The length of a rectangular carpet is 8 feet more than twice the width. The perimeter is 46 feet. What are the dirnenSions of the carpet?
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Question 941555: The width of a rectangular lawn is 15 meters less than the length. Find the dimensions of the lawn if the perimeter is 86 meters.
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Question 941545: A painter has enough paint to cover 600 square feet of area. What is the largest square- bottom box that could be painted(including the top,bottom and all sides?
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Question 941544: A rectangular pen will be built using 100 feet of fencing. What dimensions will maximize the area?
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Question 941597: A rectangular garden is 105 m by 75 m. How many rounds of this garden will a boy make,if he runs 3,600 meters.
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Question 941615: Find the height of a triangle with a base of 30m and an area of 45m

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Question 941643: if a side of a square is increased by 6 units, its area is 100 sq units. What is the length of a side of the square?
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Question 941547: A farmers has 400 feet of fencing to make three rectangular pens. What dimensions x and y will maximize the total area?
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Question 941694: The length of the frame is three times the width and it's diagonal measurement is 160 cm, what are the dimensions of the frame?
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Question 941513: find the cost of making a triangular sail that has a base dimension of 14 ft and a height of 30 ft if the price for making the sail is $20.50 per sq foot
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Question 941850: A verandah is 40m long and 15m broad . It is to be paved with stones ,each measuring 6dm by 5dm . Find the number of stones required
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Question 941861: the length of a rectangle is 9 cm longer than its width. If the total perimeter is 250 cm determine the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 942003: What would the measurement of the long side of a golden rectangle be if its short side is 10 inches?
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Question 942077: The base of a triangle is one-half as long as its height. If the area of the triangle 100 yards, find its height
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Question 942122: Solve the problem.
Each side of a square is lengthened by 2 inches. The area of this new, larger square is 81 square inches. Find the length of a side of the original square
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Question 942090: The width of a rectangle is 25 centimeters. Find all possible values for the length of the rectangle if the perimeter is at least 460.
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Question 942130: The perimeter of a square is to be at least 17 feet, but no more than 72 feet. Find all possible values for the length of its sides.
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Question 942125: Factor any difference of two squares, or state that the polynomial is prime. Assume any variable exponents represent whole numbers.
x2 - 100

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Question 942115: The perimeter of a rectangular goat pen is 26 meters. It is 5 meters wide. How long is it?

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Question 941736: The width of a rectangle is 3 less than half the length. Find the length if the perimeter is 54.

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Question 942224: Height of a triangular sail is 2 meters less than twice of the base. If the area of the sail is 30 square meters find length of base and height
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Question 942239: Amanda bought a box with a volume of 10 cubic inches. she then bought another box that is twice as long, twice as wide, and twice as deep. what is the volume of the new box?
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Question 942415: What is the actual volume of a swimming pool with dimensions 5 cm (width) 2 cm (length) and 4 cm (depth) each centimeter represents 3 feet on the actual structure
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Question 942452: the area of a square garden is 126 square meters. estimate the side length of the garden
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Question 942481: two fields have the same perimeter. one is the square of side 72 meter and another is a rectangle of length 80 meter.which plot has the greater area and by how much
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Question 942511: a circular glass table has four thin legs. the legs are at the edge of the table top and at the corners of a square shelf under the top. the diameter of the circular top is one meter. how long are the sides of the square shelf?

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Question 942547: A square storage area measures 10 m on a side. By how much must each side be shortened to decrease this area to less than half the original area? (3 marks - show your work)
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Question 942554: A carpenter used 44 ft of molding in three pieces to trim a garage door. if the long piece was 4 ft longer than three times the length of each shorter piece, then how long was each piece?
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Question 942658: tHIS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM SECTION. AND CAN YOU HELP ME DRAW THE PICTURE . A SQUARE GATE IS BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR A CATTLE LOT. THE SIDES ARE GALVANIZED PIPE AND MEASURE 7FT. HOW MUCH PIPE IS NEEDED FOR THE DIAGONAL BRACE.
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Question 942673: The measure of one angle is eleven more than four times a number. Another angle is twice the first angle's measure. The sum of the measures of the angles is 195 degrees. What is the measure of each angle/
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Question 942690: If the length of the shop is 15 meters, calculate the width of the shop assuming it is rectangular.
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Question 942749: The height of a triangle is 8 m less than the base. The area is 10 m squared. Find the height and base.
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Question 942752: Two Fields have the same perimeter one is a square if side 72 m & another is a rectangle of 80 m which plot is greater .
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Question 942844: a triangular sail on a sailboat is 6 meters across the bottom and 10 meters tall.what is the area of this sail
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Question 942870: A norman window consists of a rectangle and a semi circle. The rectangular pane is 3 feet by 6.5 feet. Calculate the area of the window by square feet.
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Question 942858: a parallelogram with a base four times the height and with an area less than 200 sq ft.
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Question 942959: a closet door measures 64 inches by 20 inches. a decorative brace is placed on the door extending from the upper right corner to the lower left corner. find the length if the brace to the nearest tenth
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Question 942960: the area of a rectangle wall of a barn is 20 feet. its length is 6 feet longer than twice its width. find the length and width of the wall of the barn
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