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Question 958341: The wood floor of a dance room is to be replaced with carpet. If the area of the dance room is 256 square feet, what is the length of one side of the dance room?
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Question 958388: Find the dimension of the rectangle if one of its sides are three times as long as the other side, and its perimeter is 88 meters
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Question 958459: A computer monitor is listed as measuring 21 inches this is the distance across the diagonal of the screen. If the screen is 16 inches wide, what is the height of the screen to the nearest tenth of an inch

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Question 958544: A rectangular bedroom floor measures 12 ft by 15ft. The room has a large closest with a sliding door that is 6ft wide. It has a door leading from the bedroom that is 3ft. What is the total length of the floor molding needed for this room?

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Question 958499: A circular garden has a radius of 16 feet. You want to lay a concrete sidewalk 2 feet wide around the entire garden. If the walk will be 3 inches thick, how many yards of concrete will you need to order?
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Question 958687: A rectangular swimming pool, 20 meters long and 12 meters wide is surrounded by a deck that is the same with all around the pool.If the pool and deck together occupy an area of 600 square meters, how wide is the deck?

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Question 958652: The dimensions of a certain computer monitor screen are such that its length is 2 inches more than its width. If the length is increased by 1 inch while the width remains the same, the area is increased by 16 square inches. What is the length and width of the screen
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Question 958806: The base of a triangle is one half as long as its height. If the area of the triangle is 144 square meters, find its height.
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Question 958883: the plans for a shed call for a rectangular floor with a perimeter of 288ft. the length is two times the width. find the length and width.
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Question 958949: If I had an area of 5and 5/8and a length of 1and1/what will the width be
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Question 958937: square pyramid slant height= 22 and each side of the base is 8 i need to find the lateral area. i used the equation 4(1/2*b*h) to find the answer but when i do the equation and check it the answer is different)
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Question 958985: to find the height of a tree, a student measured the tree's shadow and her own shadow. If the student's height is 5 ft 8 in., what is the height of the tree?
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Question 958905: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en&q=a+square+is+cut+in+half+so+that+the+perimeter+of+the+resulting+rectangle+is+30+ft.+find+the+area+of+the+original+square&spell=1&sa=X&ei=A6MUVeTdNIuuogTJw4H4DA&ved=0CBkQvwUoAA
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Question 957643: Reggie has a rectangular piece of paper that is 12 inches long and 7 inches wide. He is going to cut the paper from corner to corner, along the diagonal. How many inches will Reggie be cutting? If necessary, round to two decimal places
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Question 958076: Catlton's garden is 96 square inches. The width is 8 feet. What is the length of the fencing Carlton will need forbid garden?
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Question 958893: i drew a rhombus in a art class with a width of 2/3 feet. what is the area of the rhombus?
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Question 959007: what length would the edges of a equalateral triangle be when the area of it is 1120.
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Question 958804: The base of a triangle is one half as long as its height. If the area of the triangle is 144 square meters, find its height.
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Question 958385: rectangle with a length of 5 inches and width of 3 inches. if, the actual length is 50 feet, what is the scale factor?
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Question 959070: A dog on a leash is tied up outside at the corner of a garage. The garage is 20 feet by 30 feet.if the leash is 24 feet long, how much area for the dog have
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Question 958666: A rug is made for a room 30 ft by 18 ft with a 3 ft strip of wood showing along each edge of the rug. What must the dimensions be of the rug?
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Question 958378: The length of a rectangle is 13 cm more than the width. The perimeter is 65. Find the dimensions.
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Question 958167: If w is equal to 1cm in this : w:l equals l:w+l
What should be the equivalent of "l"?
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Question 959168: If a 28 ft rope is cut into two sections with one section 3 times as long as the other section, how long is the shorter piece?

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Question 958084: If a storage unit measures 240 inches by 216 inches how many 30 inch by 16 inch containers can fit stacking 6 high?
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Question 959171: Jennifer needs to make a solution that is 20% hydrochloric acid. If she must use all of the 25 mL of 40% hydrochloric acid she started with, then how much water needs to be mixed with the original solution?
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Question 957416: An open-cone has a circular base of radius 10 cm and a slant height of 20 cm. Draw a net of the cone and label its dimensions.
P.S: I did the solve the equation but I couldn't draw the net. Please help. Thanks!
Regards,
Saad Ali
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Question 958047: John is designing a poster for his business. The original width of the poster is 20 inches he decides to increase the width by 15% how many inches wide will the new poster be
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Question 958015: Leah cuts congruent triangular patches with an area of 45 square centimeters from a rectangular piece of fabric that is 18 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide how many of the patches can Leah cut from 32 pieces of fabric
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Question 957049: leia cuts congruent triangular patches with an area of 45 square centimeters from a rectangular piece of fabric that is 18 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. how many of the patches can leia cut from 32 pieces of the fabric
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Question 958495: a tree casts a shadow 18m long. at the same time, the shadow cast by a 51-cm tall statue is 56 cm long. find the height of the tree
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Question 954698: A triangular traffic island has a base Half as long as it's height.The island has an area of 49 m� find the base and the height
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Question 956472: a hula hoop is hung by a string at a height of 12 feet. Bruce is currently lying on his back and is lying 9 feet away from the hula hoop. If he is to throw the basketball through the hula hoop, what angle must he throw the ball at? How would I set this up? Thanks:)
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Question 954639: A rectangular property has a perimeter of 22km. Fifteen times the length is 40 times the breadth. What is the area?
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Question 953513: One triangular face of a pyramid has a base of 20 meters and a height of 30 meters. What is the area of the triangular face?

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Question 958868: A restaurant has a weekly ad in a local newspaper that is 2 inches wide and 4 inches high and cost $36.75 per week. The cost of each ad is based on its area. If the owner of the restaurant decides to double the width and height of the ad, how much will the new ad cost?
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Question 956225: Matthew has a grid in the shape of a rectangle. He has squares with an area of 60 square millimeters that fit on the grid.
If the length of the grid is 30 centimeters and the width is 20 centimeters, how many squares can Matthew fit on the grid?
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Question 956291: A projectile is shot vertically upward. Its height h in feet after time t in seconds may be expressed by the formula .
Find t when h=80.0 feet.

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Question 954488: If a building is 3/4 as tall as it is wide. Its area is 216m^2. Find height and base
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Question 959574: he volume of a pyramid varies jointly with the base area of the pyramid and its height. The volume of one pyramid is 24 cubic inches when its base area is 24 square inches and its height is 3 inches. What is the volume of a pyramid with a base area of 15 square inches and a height of 7 inches?
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Question 959564: mr. silvers rectangular swimming pool. LENGTH is 4 more than three times its width. the area of the pool is 530 square feet, but he needs to put a patio around the pool for tables and chairs. mr.silver wants to install a 4.5 foot wide patio all the way around the pool. what is the area of the patio

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Question 959664: I am building a archway for a gate. The width is 74.4" . I will use five pieces of material , cut at a
15 degree angle. How long should each piece be cut? The material is 4x4 x8
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