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Question 943936: If you have a 10 meter by 10 meter area. How many post would you need to enclose the area if you put the posts 1 meter apart?
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Question 945010: What is the sum of 11 feet and 4 yards?
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Question 945004: Find the angle of elevation of the sun when a 24 foot tree casts a shadow of 36 feet.

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Question 945011: Katie drew a shape with five sides. Two of the sides were 9cm long. One side was 8cm long. The other two sides were equal to each other in length. How long were each of the other sides?
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Question 945016: Sandy walks diagonally across a rectangular field that is 120 ft. by 175 ft. How long was her walk?
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Question 944998: A flower bed with area of 100+180n. Length is 20 in, what is width?
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Question 945236: find the measures of the angles of a triangle if the measure of one side is twice the measure of a second and the third angle measures two times the second decreased by 20
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Question 945284: Use the formula
P=4s to calculate the
side lengths of a square
with a perimeter of 30
feet.

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Question 945262: The perimeter of a rectangular plot of land is 312 kilometers. If the length is 6 kilometers more than 5 times the width, what are the length and width?
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Question 945290: The combine area of two squares is 45 cm� each side of one square is twice as long as the side of the other square what is the length of each side of the larger
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Question 945340: rectangle rug perimeter is 460ft the length is 9 times as long as the width what is the width and length
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Question 945338: One side of triangle is one-fourth the longest side.The third side is 11 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 124. Find all three sides.

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Question 942626: The third grade classroom has a perimeter of 130 feet. If it is 25 feet wide,how many feet long is the classroom.

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Question 945348: You are planning a vegetable garden and plan to have 12 square garden plots arranged into a rectangle. Each plot measures 1 meter on each side. How can you arrange the 12 plots to have the least perimeter
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Question 945330: A cloth is 2 feet 8 inches long. What fraction of a foot is this length?

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Question 944312: A biologist introduces 200 ladybugs into a crop field. The population P of ladybugs is approximated by the model, P = (1000(1+3t))/(5+t), where t is the time in days. Find the time required for the population to increase to at least 2000 ladybugs.

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Question 944301: A manufacturer wants to enlarge an existing manufacturing facility such that the total floor area is 1.5 times that of the current facility. The flor area of the current facility is rectangular and measures 250 feet by 160 feet. The manufacturer wants to increase each dimension by the same amount. Find the dimensions of the new floor.
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Question 945467: a box is 3 times as long as it is wide.it is 6 inches long.how wide is the box
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Question 943235: The wall shown is to be painted. The door, which will not be painted, is 2.5 feet by 7.5 feet. What area will be painted?
trapezoid has a bases of 11ft and 14ft. also a height of 9ft.
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Question 945586: the measure of the central angle of a circle is 70 and arc AC is 3 meter,what is the measure of the radius?

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Question 945561: 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 64 feet, what are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 945723: If a rectangular lawn has sides which measure x-6 feet and 2x feet . The perimeter is 42 feet . What is the length of each side of the lawn?
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Question 945726: 9. A picture frame has thickness x, and the dimensions of the unframed picture are 18in x 24in. If the area of the picture and frame together is 720 square inches, find the thickness of the frame.
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Question 945714: A rectangular plot, 16 ft by 15 ft, is to be used for a garden. It is decided to put a pavement inside the entire border so that 132 square feet of the plot is left for flowers. How wide should the pavement be?
If you could help me with this I would appreciate it
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Question 945778: A rectangular room has a perimeter of 48ft. The width is 2/3 of the length. What are the dimensions of the room

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Question 945900: There is a 4 foot high fence that surrounds your backyard. The fence casts a shadow that is 5 feet long. If you are 6 feet tall and standing next to the fence, how long will your shadow be?
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Question 945983: the height in feet of an object shot from a cannon with initial velocity of 20 feet per second can be modeled by the equation
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Question 946083: the guest room in Mr. Santos house is a square in shape. one side is 5 meters, find the area?
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Question 946098: a family size pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. if the diameter is 33cm, find the area of the top part of each slice. Show working
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Question 946049: The length of each side of a square in 3 inches more than the length of each side of a smaller square. The sum of the areas is 425 inches squared. Find the length of the sides of both triangles.
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Question 946133: The length of a rectangle is 4 inches greater than twice the width. If the diagonal is 2 inches more than the length, find the dimensions if the rectangle.
W (width)
2w+6 (diagonal)
2w+4 (length)
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Question 946129: The measure of one of the angles of a right triangle is five times the measure of another angle of the triangle. What are the possible values of the measures of the second largest angle?
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Question 946474: a lead pipe 3 cm thick has an inner diameter of 4 cm. Find the number of cubic centimeters of lead in a piece of pipe 3 m long
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Question 946471: the diameter of a well is 1.5 m and the water is 2 m deep. How many cubic meters of water is in the well. If the water weighs 1000 kg/cubic meter, find the total weight of water in the well
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Question 946504: The measures of a triangle are in the extended ratio 5:3:4. What is the measure of the smallest angle?

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Question 946540: A square has a perimeter of 64 feet and an area of 256 square feet. If the side length of the square is divided by 2, find the area and perimeter of the new square.
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Question 946629: Would you please help me solve this word problem?? The length of a rectangle is three times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 100 inches. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 946630: I am gluing a ribbon around the sides of a picture frame. The frame is 11 inches long and 7 inches wide. How much ribbon do I need?

I am submitting this for my 8 year old daughter. Her guess for the answer is 11x7=77
Not sure if that is the correct answer or not?
Me, being her mother seems to think it would be 11x2=22, 7x2=14...... 22+14= 36 inches of ribbon
I am not sure if I am or correct or she is, but I am hoping to help her get the correct answer
Thank you!
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Question 946715: If the perimeter of a rectangular garden is 288 feet. If the length of the garden is 78 feet, what is its width?
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Question 946742: a circular pool has a radius of 4 feet and a 1-foot wide border. a. what is the area of the pool without the border? b. what is the area if the pool with the border? c. what is the area of te border by itself? d. write an expression for the area a border around a circular pool with a radius of r feet.
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Question 946793: The perimeter of the triangle is 74cm. Find the length of each side.
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Question 946822: Please help me solve this problem I am getting nowhere with it.
The Museu Blau in Barcelona, Spain, is a natural science museum built in the shape of a triangular prism. The building is an equilateral triangle 180 meters on each side and 25 meters high (this is the depth of the prism). The height of each triangle is 156m.
Find the volume of the triangular prism of the Museu Blau.
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Question 946856: A rectangular piece of metal is 15 inches longer than it is wide. Square with sides 3 inches long are cut from the four corners and the flaps are folded upward and taped to form an open-topped box. If the volume of the box is 648 cubic inches, what was the original width (shorter side) of the piece of metal?
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