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Question 955738: a rectangular parking lot is twice as long as it width if the perimeter of the lot is 102 find the length and width of the parking lot

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Question 955801: a gift shop near ernest heminway home ans museum plans to enlarge its book space.the space will be similar ,with a length of 49 feet.what will the width be?
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Question 955859: A tank contains 15360 litres of water. At the end of each day half of the water is fetched out and not replaced.How much water is left after 10 days?
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Question 955891: A square patio has an area of 196 yds2. How long is each side of the patio?
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Question 953781: The area of a square is twice the perimeter of an equilateral triangle. If the length of each side of the triangle is 48 meters, find the length of each side of the square. Show your complete solution.
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Question 955926: two pieces of wood are glued together, one piece is twice as long as the other. the total length of the glued wood is 250 centimeters. what is the length of the shorter piece of wood?
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Question 955921: the circumference of a beach ball is 95cm how much air would it take to fill the beach ball completely?

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Question 955921: the circumference of a beach ball is 95cm how much air would it take to fill the beach ball completely?

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Question 955967: The spotlight was positioned directly above a performer. if the lateral area of the cone of light was approximately 500 ft.� and the slant height was 20 feet, find the diameter of light on the stage
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Question 956040: a fish tank hold 63,00 in of water the tank is 45 in deep and 70 in wide how long is the tank
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Question 956081: Please help me with this word problem:The perimeter of a rectangular parking lot is 236 meters. The parking lot is 51 meters wide. How long is it?
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Question 956109: Please help me with this problem:The floor of a cabin is shaped like a rectangle. It has a surface area of 288 square feet. If the perimeter of the floor is 68 feet, what is the length of the floor?

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Question 955697: A horse is tied to a rope 5 feet long. How much fencing is needed to enclose the part of the field where the horse can graze?
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Question 955695: A horse is tied to a stake by a rope 5 feet long. Over what area can he graze?
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Question 956209: I have two squares. The length of the larger square is 3 cm longer than that of the smaller square. The combined area of the two squares is 89 cm squared. What are the lengths of the sides of each square?
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Question 956224: Find the actual dimensions of each room scale 1in=16ft
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Question 951902: Area of rectangle is 80 yards squared one side is x and other side is x+2
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Question 956337: Word problems are my Achilles heel in mathematics and I have a problem that is stumping me completely. Here is the question:
In a rectangle, the perimeter is 54 feet. The width of the rectangle is 3 feet more than the length. What are the length and width of the rectangle? Can you help me figure it out.
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Question 956335: if a rug is 4 feet radius and I am trying to find the area how would I find that

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Question 956358: A=1/2bh, is it reasonable to get an answer of h=-6?
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Question 956361: V=1/3 π r^2 h; If V=50π when r=5, find h.
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Question 956407: What length of 2in. by 4in. material will be required to make 6 bench legs each 28 1/4in. long?

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Question 956442: The perimeter of a movie screen is 76 meters. It is 26 meters wide. How tall is it?

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Question 956458: Algebra Find the missing measurement for each triangle.
A = 36 mi 2 , b = (blank) , h = 12 mi
A = (blank) , b = 12 mm, h = 7.5 mm
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Question 956452: if the area of a rectangle is (50x^6 + 75x^8) square meters and its length is 25 x^4 metres, find its width.
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Question 956419: The perimeter of a rectangle is 126 m. The length is 3 m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions. I struggled with trying to figure this question out.
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Question 956383: a well of 50 m depth and radius 10 m is dug. the sand got while digging the well is used to raise a plot of length 50 m and breadth of 20 m what will be the width of the raised area

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Question 956532: The radius of a circle is 5 inches. What is the area of a sector bounded by a 180� arc?

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Question 956586: Please help write formula... Janets mother is 10 years more than twice Janets Age.. If Janets mother is 30, how old is Janet?
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Question 956649: the perimeter of the rectangle shown is 60 inches write an equation representing the perimeter.
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Question 956476: A bookcase is to have 4 shelves including the top as pictured below.

The width is to be 7 feet less than 2 times the height. Find the width and the height if the carpenter expects to use 22 feet of lumber to make it.
Width: feet
Height: feet
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Question 956363: A flag in the shape of a triangle has an area of 20 ft^2. How many feet long is the flag if its base is 5 ft?

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Question 956703: The area of a rectangular door is 20.77 square feet. The width of the door is 3.6 feet more than its length. Find the length and width of the door.
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Question 956531: The sides of a vegetable graden in the shape of a triangle are in the ratio 3:4:5. If the perimeter is 96 feet, what is the lenght of the shortest side.

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Question 956669: at certain time of the day a tree casts its shadow 12.5 feet long.If the height of the tree is 5 feet .find the height of another tree that casts its shadow 20 feet long at the same time.
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Question 956362: A=1/2h(b1+b2); If A=136 when b1=7, and h=16, find b2
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Question 956443: the A swimming pool is the shape of a rectangle. the length of the pool is 12 feet more than the width. A concrete deck 3 feet wide is added around the pool, and perimeter of the deck is 148 feet. Find the dimensions of the swimming pool.
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Question 956831: The length of a rectangle is
3 m
less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is
14 m2
. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 956359: V=1/3Ah, If V=16 when A=24, find h.
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Question 956894: How to find work when the process of compression is polytropic
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Question 956931: A tree casts a shadow of 15 meters, while a 2-meter post nearby casts a shadow of 3 meters. How tall is the tree?
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Question 956760: If the area between 2 squares is 17 inches and the sum of the perimeters of the 2 squares is 68 inches. How many inches long is a side of the larger square?
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