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Question 953749: The area of a rectangular field is 428 square meters and the width is 10m less than the length. What is the size of the width?
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Question 954017: A rectangular field is 80m by 330m. A rectangular barn 21m by 35m is built in the field. How much area is left over?
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Question 954063: what will it cost to make a gravel walk 3meter wide round and inside a square park whose are is 48841square meter at rupees 2 per square meter.

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Question 954122: a wooden fence is to be built around a 28 by 78 lot how many meters for the fence will be needed ? if the wood for the fence costs 36.50 per meter what will the wood for the fence cost?
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Question 954180: a pine tree casts a shadow 9 feet long. At the same time, a rod measuring 4 feet casts a shadow 1.5 feet long. how tall is the pine tree ?
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Question 952684: A rectangle has a length 9 meters longer than double the width. The perimeter is 210. Find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 954346: The roof of a tower is in the shape of a square pyramid the length of the roof is 12 feet and slant height is 10 ft . What is the total surface area of the roof excluding the base
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Question 954361: Benjamin made a model of a square pyramid with a square base5 inches long and a slant height of nine inches as shown.
The surface area of the pyramid is given by the formula SA= B+1/2 p
What is the surface of Benjamin's pyramid?
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Question 954409: Jeremy is going to help his neighbor build a patio similar in shape to his patio. Jeremy's neighbor's patio will have twice the area of Jeremy's patio. How can Jeremy use the dimensions of his patio to determine the dimensions of his neighbor�s patio?

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Question 954450: The service area of the cone is given by the formula SA =pi r squared +pi r l
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Question 954437: A farmer is building a pen inside a barn. The pen will be the shape of a right triangle. The farmer has 14 feet of barn wall to use for one side of the pen and wants another side of the pen to be 15 feet long.
a) How many different lengths for the third side are possible? Explain.
b) To the nearest tenth of a foot, find all possible lengths for the third side of the triangle. Show your work.
c) The farmer wants the area of the pen to be as large as possible. What length should he choose for the third side? Justify your answer.
d) Find the measure of the acute angles for the triangle you described in part (c). Round to the nearest degree.

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Question 954527: The length of one side of the square pyramid measures 60 ft. The height of the pyramid is120 ft
The volume of the rectangular pyramid is given by the formula v =bh/3
What is volume of pyramid?
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Question 954524: A rectangular stained glass window is 2 feet by 4 feet. A clear glass border is constructed around the stained glass window. The width of the border is equal and was made out of 7 square feet of clear glass. What is the width of the border?
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Question 954600: Please help me in this question!!
The perimeter of a rectangle is 54 centimeters, and it's area is 140 square centimeters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 954643: if the perimeter of a rectangle is 42 meters, what is the length and width

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Question 953957: A bookcase fits diagonally into the corner of the room. The front of the bookcase is 54 in wide. Each side of the bookcase uses the same amount of wall space. What angles are formed where the front of the bookcase touches the wall?
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Question 954762: A cone has a height of 9 inches and a radius of 3 inches
Volume = 1/3x(area of base ) x height
What is the volume of the cone in terms of pi?
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Question 954761: A regular pyramid has a height of 6 inches and the measure of the base is 7 inches
Volume= 1/3x(area of base)x height
What is the volume of the pyramid?
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Question 952310: Im a rectangle each of my shorter sides measure 5 meters my area is 45 square meters what is the length of each of my longer sides
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Question 954914: One diagonal of a rhombus is three more than twice the length of the other diagonal. If the area of the rhombus is 50 square inches, what are the lengths of the diagonals?
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Question 954995: A bedroom door has a perimeter of 28 feet and an area of 40 square feet. What are the dimensions of the door?

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Question 954845: The area of a trapezoid is 77 square inches, the height measures 4 inches and the legs are 5 inches long. Find the length of the bases.
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Question 955092: State whether each function given below is symmetric about either axis or the origin.
a. y = x� + 3
b. y = x� - x
c. y = √|x|
Here's my answer, but I'm not sure about it:
a. symmetric about the y axis
b. symmetric about the origin (not sure)
c. symmetric about both axes and the origin
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Question 955102: If your yard is 4 feet wide and requires 44 pieces of sod that are cut into 1 foot squares, how long is it?
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Question 955117: The surface area of a cylinder is 2 x (are of base) + (circumference of base)x height
In the cylinder below the radius is 4 centimeters and surface area is 72 pi square centimeters
What is the height of the cylinder?
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Question 955113: Find the measure of an angle such that the difference between its supplement and 2 times its complement is 37
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Question 955210: The perimeter of a rectangle is 126cm the rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. What are the dimensions
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Question 955241: Two gardens are being Fenced in. Both Gardens Will require the same amount of fencing (both Gardens have the same perimeter in meters). One garden is in the shape of a square and the other is in the shape of a equilateral triangle. Each side of the triangle is 9 m longer than each side of the square. Find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 955254: what is 1/3 as long as 6 meters equal?

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Question 955334: It is a kite. The perimeter is 6m. Each long side is 0.5m longer than each short side. How long is each side?

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Question 955361: A right triangle has a height that is 6 inches longer than its shorter side. The hypotenuse of the triangle is 7 inches longer than the shorter side. How long is the hypotenuse of the triangle?
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Question 955367: The area of a triangle is 25 square meters. The height is twice as long as the base. How long is the shorter leg of the triangle?
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Question 955251: a plot of land is in the shape of a parrellogram the adjacent side meet at an angle of 45 degrees one side is 74 meters the other side is 11 meters what are the lengths of the two diagonals
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Question 955388: How much fabric is needed (and in what dimensions) to construct a teepee with a 60"x60" square base (using four poles) and is 8 feet tall?
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Question 955349: A scale model of a barn is 1.2m tall and 0.8 wide. The width of the actual barn is 20 m . What is the actual height of the barn?
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Question 955315: Find the length of the base of a square pyramid if the volume is 576 cubic inches and has a height of 3 inches. Use 3.14 for pi, and round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 955277: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width. If the area is 22 square meters, find the rectangle's dimensions.
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Question 954803: If a meteorite falls randomly in the southern hemisphere, what is the probability it will fall in Australia with Australia's area being 2,940,000 miles squared?
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Question 955279: two cars left the same intersection. one car traveled to the north. the other car traveled to the east. the car that went east drove 7 miles further than the car that traveled to the north. at that point the two cars were 13 miles aaway from each other. how far did each car travel?
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Question 954900: I am building a bike ramp that is shaped like a square pyramid. I used two 4-foot by 8-foot sheets of plywood. How much plywood will I have left over if the height is 3ft and the lenght is 5ft.
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Question 952875: Heather paid $1,306.80 for a computer. If the price paid includes a 8% sales tax, which of the following equations can be used to determine the price of the computer after tax?
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Question 955533: Suppose that i am not good at shooting the basketball,I can shoot 50% of the time, what is the probability that i will shoot only 3 times out of 10 tries?round answer in 4 decimal places. Pls help with little explanation.thanks a lot.
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Question 955647: in an isosceles triangle, the measure of the third angle is 4 degrees less than twice the measures of the base angles. Find the measures of the angles of the triangle
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