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Question 959821: A farmer wishes to fence his rectangular paddock, if its measurements are 366 metres long and 100 metres wide, what is the perimeter?
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Question 959908: if we lengthen the sides of a square by 40%, by what percentage will its area increase?
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Question 959930: Two opposite sides of a square are shorteened by 2 units. The area of the rectangle obtained is 35 square units. What was the length of one side of the original square?
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Question 959940: equilateral triangle is increasing at a rate of √3 cm/min. find the rate at which its area increasing when its edge is 12 cm long.
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Question 959949: A rectangular deck 30 inches wide surrounds a rectangar swimming pool that is 18 ft long and 20 ft wide. Find the area of the deck.
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Question 960038: Two sides of the area measure 20 feet and two sides measure 10 feet. How many feet of fencing needed?
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Question 959886: The plans for a house are drawn at scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot. If the bedroom is 10 feet wide, what is the width on the plan?
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Question 959921: Two opposite sides of a square are shortened by 2 units. The area of the rectangle obtained is 35 square units. What was the length of one side of the original square?
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Question 960269: The diagonal of a rectangle is 4 times the width. Simplify an expression for the length of the rectangle in terms of the width (w).
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Question 960238: If the length of a square measures 3x-2 , express the area of the square as a polynomial

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Question 960192: if both circles have a radius of 5 feet how far does she travel doing a figure 8

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Question 960318: A rectangular garden measures 13 meters by 17 meters and had a cement walkway around its perimeter. The width of the walkway remains constant on all four sides. The gardent and walkway have a combined area 396 square meters. Determine the width, in metets, of the walkway.
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Question 959781: If area equals 30 ft squared and width is 8 ft what is height
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Question 960516: If a t.v. cost $199 and the screen is 6 in.by 8 in.what is the cost per square inch
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Question 960517: A man wanted to buy a t.v. the t.v. was 15 inch by 20 inch what is the cost per square inch
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Question 960529: A beach ball has a radius if 8 inches when fully inflated. What is the best approximation for the volume of the beach ball when it is fully inflated
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Question 960521: A rectangular field is
130
meters long and
85
meters wide.
Give the length and width of another rectangular field that has the same perimeter but a smaller area.
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Question 960503: sue has a flat screen television that measures approximately 26 inches by 43 inches what is the approximate length of the diagonal round your answer to the nearest tenth
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Question 960563: If a garden is 20m wide and 30m long
.find the area of the garden

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Question 960603: What is the area of 18 Ft by 21 ft
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Question 960717: An airplane took 3 hours to fly 1800 miles against a headwind. The return trip with the wind took 2 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 960718: Suppose you received an unexpected inheritance of 34,200. You decide to invest by placing some of the money in stocks and some in bonds. To diversify, you decide that four times the amount in bonds should equal five times the amount invested in stocks. How much should be invested in stocks? How much should be invested in bonds?
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Question 960715: The perimeter of a rectangle is 204 meters. If the width is 20% of the length, find the dimensions of the triangle.
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Question 960741: A rectangle that is 15cm long and 12cm wide has an area of 180cm� so what is the equivalent square (area in sq cm) of the rectangle
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Question 960885: gordon is building a rectangular patio 4m long and 2m wide. he is using square slabs with 50cm edges. how many slabs does he need?
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Question 961032: What are the side lengths of an isosceles triangle if the perimeter is 256 and the area is 3072 and the height is 64?

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Question 961032: What are the side lengths of an isosceles triangle if the perimeter is 256 and the area is 3072 and the height is 64?

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Question 960317: Boris wants to wallpaper the four walls of his living room. wallpaper is always hung vertically! his room is 12' by 18' and the ceiling is 10' high. if the wallpaper he wants comes in rolls that are 2.5' wide and 50' long, how many rolls does Boris need to buy? if Boris has any waste, he cant reuse it and must throw it away. Draw a diagram to show the area being wallpapered and show how you figured it out.
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Question 961199: The area of a square mirror is 9 square feet. How long is each side of the mirror?
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Question 961254: what would be the greatest amount of area would a playground be with a perimeter of 46 feet?
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Question 961350: Jason has a truck that's 16in wide, 30in long, and 12in high. would he be able to fit a 40in telescope in his truck?
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Question 961400: A triangle shaped dog pens 6 meters on each side, how much fencing will I need to enclose all sides??

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Question 961670: If a hexagon has sides measuring 1 metre 65 cm what is the width across the widest part of the hexagon? This is a practical problem because we would like a garden summerhouse but it has to fit into a specific space, a curved stone wall and therefore "set in stone". I have drawn a diagram for myself which I think shows the width across the widest part of the figure is more than 1 m 65 cm but I do not know how to work out what will be the best use of the space.
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Question 961659: What is the area of square whose sides are 35,18,40,43
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Question 961854: Amber plans to ship a mini-basketball she bought for her nephew. The circumference of the ball is 24 inches and the package she wants to ship it in is a rectangular box that measures 8 inches X 8 inches X 9 inches. Will the basketball fit in the box?
I tied to do it, and I'm just not sure if I getting the right answer.
The Circle/ Basketball
C= 24
2πr= 24
R=12π
V=4/3π(12π)^3
V=1558.5 in^3
The Box
V=8x8x9
V=576 in^3
If this is correct the basketball would not fit in the box, correct?
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Question 962034: The area of a rectangular field is
3864

yd2
. If the length of the field is
69
yards, what is its width?
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Question 962147: Carmen plans to put plastic edging around a rectangle flower bed. The width is 12 feet and the length is twice the width. What is the perimeter?

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Question 962340: a rectangular rug is 5 3/4 feet wide and 7 1/2 feet long. what is the area of the rug.
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Question 962357: The base is a square, 9.6 cm on a side. The height is 6.2cm. What is the volume?
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Question 962378: Jonah opens his wallet and finds that all of the bills are $1 bills,$5 bills or $10 bills. There are four more $5 bills than $1 bills.. If the total amount of bills is $246, how many $10 bills does Jonah have?

Thank you for your help!

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Question 962391: A crystal ball with a diameter of 6 inches is being packaged for shipment. If the crystal ball is placed inside a circular cylinder with radius 3 inches and height 6 inches, how much volume will need to filled with padding? (The volume of a sphere with radius r is 4/3 (pi*r^3), and the volume of a right circular cylinder with radius r and height (h) is (pi*r^2*h.) Use 3.14 to approximate pi.
Please help. I have no idea what to do with this problem! Please show work, thanks.
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Question 962402: The base of a triangle is 6 inches longer than twice the length of its altitude, x. Write a polynomial that represents the area of the triangle
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