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Question 943064: A triangular garden is enclosed by fences of length 8 yards, 15 yards, and 20
yards. All of the internal angles are less than 90◦
. Find the internal angle measures of the
triangle. Give your answers in degrees, rounded to two decimal places.
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Question 943158: Find the perimeter of a square whose area is 25 sq. mm
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Question 943152: The length of a rectangle is 4 more than twice its width and its perimeter is 70 m. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 942609: the width of a garden is equal to one-half of the length .if the length of the garden is 12 feet ;what is the width

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Question 943289: A soccer field is 100 yards wide and 130 yards long. if a person walls across the field along the diagonal instead of walking the length and width of the field, how much shorter is the distance
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Question 943358: Please help us figure out how to get the formula.
Marisol is painting on a piece of canvas that has an area of 180 square inches. The length of the painting is 1 1/4 times the width. What are the dimensions of the painting?
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Question 943054: the width of a rectangular room is 60% of its length. if the length of the classroom is 15 meters,what is the area of the room?
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Question 943363: As a store is 5 times as long as it is wide. If the perimeter of the store is 240 feet. How wide is the store?

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Question 943369: A rectangular garden is two times as long as it is wide and is surrounded by a brick wall 1.5 meters wide. Find the dimensions of the garden if the area of the walk is 171 meters squared.
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Question 941733: The width of a rectangle is half the length.. Find the width and length if the perimeter is 126 m.
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Question 943557: If the area of a rectangle is 20 cm. and its length is 19 less than 6 times its width, what are the length and width? Can you show me how you got the answer?
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Question 943681: A cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 lb. A basketball has a radius of 0.39 ft. How much would the basketball weigh if it was filled with water (to the nearest tenth)?
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Question 943755: What is the length of the rectangle if the width is 598 ft and the area is 698 ft
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Question 943793: A geologist wants to measure the length XY of a rock
formation. To do so, she locates points U, V, X, Y, and Z as
shown. What is XY?
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Question 943841: How do I write the equation to find x? The culinary school spent 18,000 on advertising using radio and newspaper. the amount spent on newspaper was 5/4 that of radio. Find the amount spent on each type of advertising
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Question 943923: A road 2 meter 50 cm wide is built around a square garden of side 15 meter. find the area of the road
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Question 943851: The length of a rectangular poster is 3 inches more than three times its width. Find the length of the poster if the perimeter is 46 inches
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Question 944040: Triangles: The sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the third side. A triangle has sides as follows: the first side is 18 mm and the second side is 3 mm more than twice the third side. What are the possible lengths of the second and third sides? [hint: You will need to solve two inequalities.]
I figured out what the second and third sides have to be more than 13 mm and 5 mm, respectively. (I did this by setting the inequality to x + 2x + 3 > 18) I got the answer half correct; but I do not understand how to get the value the second and third sides have to be less than. Please help!
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Question 943850: Can you help me with this question please. A 400 meter quadrant track ( means 100m along each curve and 100 m along each straightway)is to be fenced. How much fence is needed to enclose the track in a rectangular shape?
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Question 944088: please help me solve for this The sides of a square are altered so that one is increased by 3 and the other is decreased by 1. The area of the new shape is 32 ft2. What was the area of the original square?
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Question 944103: Eric is building an open top box using a piece of cardboard that is twice as long as it is wide. To make the walls of the box, he cuts a one inch square from each corner of the box. If the volume of the box is 144 in2, what were the original dimensions of the cardboard?

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Question 944172: The perimeter of a square is 64 meters. If the field is surrounded by a running path of width 3.5 meters, find the area of the path.
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Question 944242: if a pool table is 8 feet long and 4 feet wide how far is it from one corner pocket to the diagonally opposite corner pocket. How would I figure the problem out?
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Question 944393: A rectangular window pane is 12 square feet. The width of the window pane is 1 foot less than its length.
Find the width of the window pane.
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Question 944343: Carol has a wall in her bathroom that is 8 ft. by 15 ft. She has a mirror hanging on that wall that is 3 ft. by 5 ft. How many feet are not covered by the mirror?

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Question 944454: A triangle has a perimeter of 60 cm. 2 sides are equal, the third side is 10 cm more than the equal sides.
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Question 944502: I built a rectangular dog run in my back yard that is 8feet wide and covers a total of 208 square feet. How long is the dog run? Show your work. Your final answer should be written in a complete sentence.
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Question 944384: If a trapezoid has an area of 500 sq. feet and a height of 18 feet, what is the length of its median

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Question 944635: You are planning on inviting 15 guest to a dinner party the desert recipe will only serve 12 people. Explain how you would use ratios and proportions to change proportions to serve 15 guest. Also give at least one mathematical Example
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Question 944664: the perimeter of a rectangle is 132 meters. the length is 2 meters more than 3 times the width. what are the dimensions?
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Question 944692: Find the equation of the parabola wit vertex at (-5,4),opening to the left and passes through (-7,1).
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Question 944708: A sprinkler can water an area of 121π sq. feet if it rotates 360�. If a gardener sets the sprinkler so that it rotates only 80�, how much fencing is needed to enclose the area that the sprinkler will water?

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Question 944740: Find the equation of the circle with center on the line y=2x-9 and passing through (4,-3) and with radius 5
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Question 944654: peter measured the width of one cardboard as 3 and one fourth feet a second piece measured 3 and two third estimate the combined width what is the measurement combined

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Question 944782: A toy rocket was launched from the ground. The function f(x) = -16x2 + 192x shows the height of the rocket f(x), in feet, from the ground at time x seconds.
What is the axis of symmetry of the graph of f(x), and what does it represent?
x = 12; it takes 12 seconds to reach the maximum height and 12 seconds to fall back to the ground
x = 12; it takes 12 seconds to reach the maximum height and 24 seconds to fall back to the ground
x = 6; it takes 6 seconds to reach the maximum height and 6 seconds to fall back to the ground
x = 6; it takes 6 seconds to reach the maximum height and 3 seconds to fall back to the groun
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Question 944741: Find the equation of the circle with center on the line X-5y+9=0, tangent to X-3y-11=0, and has radius √10
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Question 944837: if you have a string 13 foot long and its cut in two and the second half is 4 foot longer then the first half, how long is the two sections cut
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Question 944705: A banner is made of a square and a semicircle. The square has side lengths of 26 inches. One side of the square is also the diameter of the semicircle. What is the total area of the banner? Use 3.14 for pi
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Question 944875: the vertex of the parabola is at (-2,-3). when the y-value is -2, the x-value is -5. what is the coefficient of the squared term in the parabolas equation?
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Question 944873: The length of a rectangle is 4x + 2y cm and its width is 2x � y cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

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Question 944873: The length of a rectangle is 4x + 2y cm and its width is 2x � y cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

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Question 944844: George measured the capacity of a cardboard box as 400 in3. The true capacity of the cardboard box is 450 in3.
What is the percent error in George�s measurement? If necessary, round to the nearest percent.
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Question 944911: Two sides of a triangle are equal length. The length of the third side exceeds the length of onr of the other sides by 3 centimeters. The perimiter of the triangle is 92 centimeters, find the length of each side of the triangle
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Question 944862: A window in the room has an actual width og 2.5. What is the width og the widow in the actual blueprint.
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