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Question 964272: the length of a rectangle is 8 inches more than its width if 4 inches are taken from the length and added to the with the future becomes the square with an area of 121 square inches what are the dimensions of the original figure
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Question 964256: The length of a rectangle is 8 inches more than its width. If 4 inches are taken from the length and added to the width, the figure becomes a square with an area of 121 square inches. What are the dimensions of the original figure?
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Question 964282: Given P= 2(l+w), find l if P = 36 cm and w = 4cm
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Question 963885: Rachael owns a candy shop. She wants to display her fudge in rectangular trays that have a 100-cm perimeter. To order the trays, Rachael must give the tray's dimensions as integers. What size tray should she order to hold the most fudge if the top of each piece of fudge is a 5-cm square? Then there is a three column table. The first column is Length of tray (cm) and the values are 5, 10, 15, 20, all the way up to 45. The second column is width of tray (cm) and there is only one value which is 30 across from the length of 20. The third column is pieces of fudge. There is only one value which is 16 all the way across from the length of 40.
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Question 964336: If my building is 52 feet wide and 60 feet deep what is my dimension corner to corner across the building?
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Question 961831: if the area is 768 square feet and the length is 1 and 1/3 as long as it is wide, then what are the dimensions?
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Question 964367: Imagine you have a ball of string 3m long. You need to put this string on along the sides of a rectangular object that is 60cm wide and 30 cm long. Do you have enough string?
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Question 964063: 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 964519: The length of rectangle is 5cm less than three times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 22cm^2, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 964498: A retired couple invested $12000 in bonds. At the end of one year, they received an interest payment of $804. What was the simple interest rate of the bonds?

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Question 964452: A rectangular piece of cardboard is to be formed into an uncovered box. The piece of cardboard is 2 centimeters longer than it is wide. A square that measures 3 centimeters on a side is cut from each corner. When the sides are turned up to form the box, its volume is 765 cubic centimeters. Find the dimensions, in centimeters, of the original piece of cardboard.
width = cm
length = cm

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Question 835275: The perimeter of a kitchen is 528in if the width is 120in. What is the length of the kitchen

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Question 964644: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm greater than its width. The area is 70 square cm. find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 964683: Two ships leave port at the same time. One sails south at 15 mi/h and the other sails east at 20mi/h. Find a function that models the distance (d) between the ships in terms of time (t) (in hours), elapsed since their departure.
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Question 964750: Find the perimeter of a square ABCD if two of the vertices are A(3,7) and B(-3,4).
I get 3sqrt5 x 4 sides = 12sqrt5 - - - is that right?
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Question 964769: Can you please help me with this question. I would really appreciate it. The circumference of a cylinder is 86 pi meter, and the height is 63 meters. Find the surface area and the volume of the cylinder.
i think you use the formula v=pir^2H
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Question 963525: What is the cost to build a sidewalk 3' wide and 4" deep around the inside perimeter of a lot 100' x 150', if the price of concrete is $24 a cubic yard?
please email to lora_dubois@verizon.net
Thanks!!
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Question 964843: If perimeter of pool is 576 ft. The width is 1/3 its length, what are the dimensions?

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Question 964830: the height of the box is 6 inches.the length is 3 inches more than the width find the width if the volume is 528 cubic inches?
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Question 964928: Sum & Difference. The sum of two numbers is 5 and their difference is 30. Find the numbers.
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Question 965004: A patio door is 72 inches wide. If a drawing of the door is made with a scale of 2 in. = 3 ft, what is the width of the door on the drawing? (Hint: 12 inches = 1 foot).
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Question 964807: If the platform has an area of 12 and I wanted to put a border around the edges, how much border would I need?
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Question 965012:
Mr. Burner had a a storage shed shaped like a rectangular prism. He added additional space to each side of the shed
4ft 8ft 10ft 12ft 8ft/ l12ft 28ft
What is the volume of the shed?
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Question 965121: A photograph is 12 cm longer than it is wide. It is mounted in a frame 5 cm wide. The area of the frame is 620 cm squared. What is the dimensions of the photo

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Question 965140: The lateral area of a pyramid with a square base is 2400in^2. Its base edges are 48in long. Find the height of the pyramid.
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Question 965182: I already have two vertices of the triangle which are (2,-8) and (-10,16) how do I find the third one? Thank you :)
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Question 965076: A cube with side length 2 meters. Explain what happens to the volume of the cube if the length of the sides is doubled
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Question 965215: A square window has a perimeter of 60 inches. What is the length of the side of the window?
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Question 965215: A square window has a perimeter of 60 inches. What is the length of the side of the window?
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Question 964946: There is a prism that has a volume of720 mm determine the length of the prism

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Question 965330: The area of lawn is 1850m^2. Its length 6 time from its width. Its width will be
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Question 965319: what should be subtracted from 7 eights to get 5 over 24
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Question 965248: The length of a rectangular playground is 7 ft more than five times the width. The perimeter is 254 ft. What are the dimensions of rectangle

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Question 965314: A city farm is rectangular in shape. It is 65 meters long and 60 meters wide.
Calculate the length of the perimeter.
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Question 965423: a contractor uses the expression 7(x+3) to find the length in feet of chain that he needs for a certain project .
the cintractor needs 4 chains that are this length. what is the total length of all of the chains?
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Question 965578: The perimeter of my garden is 32 feet.If my garden is 10 feet wide how long is it.
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Question 965625: You have 3 lengths of ribbon that each measure 375 millimeters. Is that enough to go around the 1-meter perimeter of the flag you are making? If not, how much more do you need?
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Question 965642: Please help me with this word problem.
you need to pump water out of a flooded basement, using two 50-gallon-per-minute pumps. The basement has the dimension show(40 feet by 50 feet)and (24 feet by 22 feet)and is flooded to a depth of 16 in. How long will it take to pump the water out of the basement?
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Question 965280: The perimeter of a rectangle is 34 units. Its width is 6.5 units. Write an equation to determine the length, l, of the rectangle.
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Question 965731: Sketch and describe the locus of all points in a plane 3 units from the point (1,0).
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Question 965678: A string one yard long is formed into the shape of a square. How many inches long is each side of the square? How many square inches is the area of the square?
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Question 965184: A square has an area of 169 centimeters it's side is 3cm longer than the width of a rectangle but 3cm shorter than the length of the rectangle find the perimeter of the square. And RECTANGLE

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Question 965830: A rose garden is designed by joining a rectangle and a semicircle, as shown below. The rectangle is
31ft long and 23ft wide. If the gardener wants to build a fence around the garden, how many feet of fence are required? (Use the value 3.14 for π, and do not round your answer. Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.)
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Question 965925: The Flatiron building in NY is in the shape of an isosceles triangle. If the shortest side of the building is 50 feet shorter than the two longer sides, and perimeter around the building is 1300, determine the length of the three side of the building.
Short Side:
Long Sides:
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