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Question 962385: Miguel makes a boat display box for a school project. The display box is in the shape of a rectangular prism with a length of 29.2 cm, a height of 19.5 cm and a width of 10 cm.
Part A: round the given measurement of the display box to the nearest cm
Part B: what Is the exact volume of the display box? Show your work and label your answer.
Part C: Miguel centered the boat in the bottom of the display box. The boat has a length of 20 cm, a height of 12 cm, and a width of 6 cm. exactly how many cm are on either side of the boat once it is centered in the display box? Show your work.
I know how to help my son with A and B but I can't remember how to do C. Can you please help?
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Question 962462: I need help with this word problem.
A rectangular corral is built against a cliff in such a way that only 150 feet of fencing is needed for the three sides. The width, w, of the corral is as shown. Which of the following would be an expression for the area of the enclosed rectangle?
The picture this word problem is referring to is here: http://mohandasmohandas.com/african1/Algebra1finalexam2004.pdf
page 22 question 64.
I think the answer is A. w(150-w), however I am not completely sure.
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Question 962457: several students form a circle by standing next to each other. samantha and aaron are directly across form each other and are approximately 30 feet apart. if each student takes up 4 feet of the circle, how many students are in the circle?
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Question 962051: if A Apartment had 40000 square feet and you wanted 2.5 parking places per 1000 square feet how many parking spaces would you need?

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Question 962242: Five identical boxes each with a volume of 100 cubic centimetres are stacked to create an object.
What is the total volume of the object?

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Question 961705: Ok so here is the question: A field is 40 feet wide and 62 feet long. How much will it cost to put a fence around this field if fencing is $1.55 per foot?

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Question 962868: Find the volume of a section of cylinder that has a radius of four feet. The section has an arc of 90 degrees and height of eight feet.
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Question 962861: A parallelogram has a height of 12 feet and area of 132 square feet, what is the height?
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Question 962691: George has 12 feet of fencing to build a dog pen. He decides to use the side of his garage for one side of the rectangular dog pen. A) find the area of the dog pen if he makes all three sides of the dog pen the same length. B) find the area of the dog pen if he makes the side opposite the garage twice as long as the two other sides. C) find the area of the dog pen if he makes the side opposite the garage one foot longer than one of the two other sides.
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Question 962912: A circle has a circumference of {12\pi}. It has an arc of length {16}{15}\pi

What is the central angle of the arc, in radians?
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Question 963001: the perimeter of a quadrilateral is 31 centimeters. find the length of its sides? side1(x+3)side2(x+6)side3(x^2-2x)side4(2x-2)....I hope I made it clear enough to understand
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Question 963155: Is 15 feet or 162 inches bigger
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Question 963157: i want to tile my rectangular verandah, which measures 9 meters by 7 meters. the tile i want to use is measured at 25cm by 25cm. how many tiles will i need to complete my job ?
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Question 961909: Adam has a grid in the shape of a rectangle. He has right triangles 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 15 centimeters, how many right triangles can Adam fit on the grid?

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Question 963414: The length of a field is 200ft longer than it is wide. The area of the field is 57,600 sq. ft. What is the width of the field?
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Question 963471: where is the best location for a lifeguard to stand when on the edge of a rectangular pool
should lifeguard be located in short side or long side and where on the side should lifeguard be located
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Question 963568: how to find the the diameter of a circle with only the area of the Square Inscribed in a Circle and the area of the square is 25 square feet
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Question 963583: Explain why 2004-04-02-01-00_files/i0390000.jpg.
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Question 963537: The floor area of a certain semi trailer is 306 square feet. If its length is 2 feet more than 4 times its width, what is its width?
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Question 963563: the width of rachels shelf is 6 tenths meter less than the length.what is the width of the shelf in centimeters

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Question 963640: Andrew has a grid in the shape of an isosceles trapezoid. He has right triangles with an area of 45 square millimeters that fit on the grid.
If the length of the bases of the grid are 30 centimeters and 15 centimeters and the height is 16 centimeters, how many right triangles can Andrew fit on the grid?
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Question 963669: Find the length of diagonal of a square interms of its edge a
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Question 963645: Pentagon has a perimeter of 9/10 meter. The equation 5s=9/10represents the lengah each side. How is s solved
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Question 963690: please show me how to work this problem?
An a-frame house is 40 feet high and 30 feet wide. find the measure of the angle that the roof makes with the floor. round to the nearest degree.

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Question 963789: My question is: The dimensions of a triangle are multiplied by 1/4. The area of a smaller triangle can be found by multiplying the area of the original triangle by what number?
It seems too simple to say the answer is 1/4, but that's the only thing that makes sense to me. This is for 6th grade math. Thank you for any help you can provide!
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Question 963767: ABC is a right triangle such that the length of BC (hypotenuse) is 5 units. The legs have length x and 2x. Find x.
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Question 964006: A piece of wire 5.5 m long is bent into a triangular shape. One side is 1.5m long and another is 2m long. Find the angles of the triangle.
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Question 964020: a coop wants to use 192 feet of fencing to put a fence around a rectangular garden. the garden is going to be twice as wide as it is long. what are the dimensions of the rectangular garden?
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Question 963843: A rectangle, 4.5 metres wide has the same area as a square with 12 metre sides, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
please show exactly how its worked out, thank you
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Question 963983: Two circles have the same radius is a combined area of the two circles the same area of a circle twice the radius
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Question 964023: My problem is figuring out a countersink hole in a sheet of .048 inch thick, countersink is 100 degree's, top of hole to be .220 inch. How might I figure the dimension of the hole at the bottom of the .048 sheet?

\ 100 DEG /
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.220
_______
\_____/ .048
?

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Question 964021: how to measure Mirrow disco ball to inches.
Thank you
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Question 964065: a shelf is built into the corner of a room whose walls meet at an angle of 120 degree. Find the area of the shelf space if its front edge is 24cm and the other two edges are equal

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Question 963586: The combined area of a square and a rectangle is 201 square centimeters. The width of the rectangle is 5 centimeters more than the length of a side of the square, and the length of the rectangle is 4 centimeters more than its width. Find the dimensions of the square and the rectangle.
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Question 964087: Jacob has a board that is 93 inches long. How many pieces can he cut that are 6.4 inches long? Round to the nearest hundredth.

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Question 964085: Each side of a square is increased 6 inches. When this happens, the area is multiplied by 25. How many inches in the side of the original square?
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Question 964073: An ostrich egg has about the same volume as a sphere with a diameter of 5 inches. If the eggshell is 1/12 inch thick, find the volume of just the shell, NOT including the interior of the egg. Round to the nearest tenth.
Can you please show the steps too, please? Thanks!!!
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Question 964112: In any triangle, the 3 angles total 180 degrees. For this triangle, angle B is 8 more than twice angle A, while angle C is 11 less than angle B. find the all angels.

Please help to get me started and understand how to do this.
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Question 963468: the sum and difference of 2 angles of a triangle are 128 degree and 22 degree,find the angles of the triangle.

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Question 964128: What is the surface area of regular pentagonal pyramid with base area of 49 square meters and slant height of 13 meters.
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Question 964151: What's the length and width of an area of 204
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Question 963906: In a convex octagon, three of the exterior angles each have a measure of x�. The other five exterior angles each have a measure of (2x+7)�. Find the measure of each exterior angle.
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Question 964218: If I have a square table cloth with a diagonal measurement of 130cm. What is the length of one side

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Question 964218: If I have a square table cloth with a diagonal measurement of 130cm. What is the length of one side

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