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Question 966014: The measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 1 : 3 : 5. Find the measure of the largest angle.
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Question 966099: Find the fifth term of a geometric sequence in which the fourth term is 4, the sixth term is 6 and the common ratio is negative
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Question 966128: use let statements. Show All work and All steps.
The diagonal of a picture frame is 13 inches. If the length of the frame is 7 inches greater than it's width, find the dimensions of the frame.
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Question 966130: use let statements. Show ALL work and ALL steps.
The length of each side of a square is made smaller by 4 inches. If the area of the resulting square is 25 square inches, determine the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 966127: use let statemants. Show all step and all work.
Jim has a rectangular table. The length of the table is 2 feet greater than the width of the table. A diagonal across the table is 4 feet greater than the width of the table. Find the length of the diagonal across the table.
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Question 966161: The area of a rectangle is x^2 - x - 6. The length and width are increased by 9. Find the area of the new rectangle.
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Question 966284: Please help with this. A square and rectangle have the same area the length of the rectangles 5 inches more than twice the length of the side of the square the width of the rectangle is 6 inches less than the side of the square find the length side of the square
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Question 966313: A homeowner hires a mason to lay a brick border around a rectangular patio that measures 8 ft by 10 ft. If the total area of the patio and border is 195 ft2, what is the width of the border?
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Question 966360: use let statements. Show ALL work and ALL steps-I need all steps and all work shown!
The length of each side of a square is made smaller by 4 inches. If the area of the resulting square is 25 square inches, determine the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 966304: 1. If a square lot has a perimeter of 24 meters, what is its area ?
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Question 966298: an 8 meter board is cut into two pieces. one piece is two meters longer than the other . how long are the pieces
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Question 966530: A green on a golf course is in the shape of a circle. Your golf ball is 8 feet from the edge of the green and 32 feet from a point of tangency on the green as shown in the figure. Answer the questions below. Round your answers to the nearest tenth if necessary.

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Question 966599: Tania took 10 steps to walk across the tether ball circle and 31 steps to walk around the circle. Use this information to find the approximate number of diameters in the circumference of the tether ball circle.
I just don't understand what they are asking.
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Question 966614: A garden is 3m by 5m. How much will each side have to be increased in order to increase the area by 20m2?
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Question 966669: determine the longest length of a baseball bat which could be stored in a rectangular box that is 6 inches by 5 inches by 2 inches high.
(Pothygrean theriom)
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Question 966735: If the area of a rectangle is 276cm^2 and if the length is 24m, find its width
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Question 966773: The area of a rectangular ink pad is 28 square centimeters. It is 7 centimeters wide. How tall is it?

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Question 966773: The area of a rectangular ink pad is 28 square centimeters. It is 7 centimeters wide. How tall is it?

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Question 966699: What is the area of a 40-gon with a side length of 4 m?
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Question 966893: the length of the rectangle is 5 inches more than the width. the area is 33 square inches. find the length and width. round to the nearest tenth if necessary.
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Question 966887: a storefront window had 154 square ft of glass. the window is 7 feet tall. what is the perimeter if window?
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Question 967072: Simon's wallet is in the shape of a rectangle. Two sides are 2 inches long. The other two sides are 3 inches long. Chaz's has the same measurements but is not a rectangle. What other figure could it be?
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Question 966858: A container has a length four times its height,which is half of its width.If its volume is 1000 cubic meters, what is the length of the container ?
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Question 967435: If 1 inch represents 75 miles on a map, then how many inches will represent 1500 miles?

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Question 967577: the length of a rectangular garden is 6 feet longer than its width if the area of the garden is 55 square feet find the dimensions
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Question 967642: water is poured to a depth of 12cm into a hemispherical bowl of radius 20cm . find the volume of the water? .. thanks
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Question 967684: find the smallest angle of a 4 foot by 5 foot by 7 foot triangular table
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Question 967752: The length of a rectangle is 3cm longer than the width. If the length is increased by 2 cm but the width remains unchanged a new rectangle is created. The area of the new rectangle is 10 cm^2 larger that the area of the original rectangle. Find the width of the original rectangle.
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Question 967782: The tennis court in the college is rectangular in shape of size n*m metres. We need to pave the court with square stones. The square stone is of size a*a.

What is the least number of stones needed to pave the tennis court? It's allowed to cover the surface larger than the Tennis Court, but the court has to be covered. It's not allowed to break the stones. The sides of stones should be parallel to the sides of the court.
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Question 967811: The hypotenuse of a right angled triangle exceeds one side by 1cm and the other side by 18cm,Calculate the length of the shortest side?
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Question 967877: A rectangle is 24 feet long and 10 feet wide and it has a rhombus inside of it by joining the midpoints of each side of the rectangle what is the length of the side of the rhombus
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Question 967826: The side opposite a 50 degree corner of a triangular plot of land is 300 feet long. What is the angle measure of another corner if its opposite side is 250 feet long?
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Question 968053: a rectangular room has a area of 60 square meters and perimeter of 34 meters. what are the length and the width of the room?

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Question 968361: Word Problem:
The second angle of a triangular garden is 4 times as large as the first. The third angle is 45 degrees less than the sum of the other two angles. Find the measure of each angle.

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Question 968359: Mara can type 945 words in hr (45 minutes). How many words per minute can she type?
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Question 968764: A building's length 10meters less than twice its width.the sidewalk around the building is 2meters wide and the area of the sidewalk alone is 216square meters.find the length of the building
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Question 968861: Natalie used 112 inches of blue yarn as a border around her rectangular bulletin board. If the bulletin board is 36 inches wide, how long is it
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Question 968940: The sum of the three angles of a triangle adds up to 180*. One angle is double the smallest angle. The third angle is 12* less than triple the smallest angle. What is the measure of the smallest angle?
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Question 969122: A 10-foot tall gate has a diagonal brace that forms a 28� angle at the top. Which is the closest width of the gate

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Question 969085: CAN ANYONE HELP ME?? Minimum Cost A rectangular area adjacent to a river is to be fenced in; no fence is needed on the river side. The enclosed area is to be 1000 square feet. Fencing for the side parallel to the river is $5 per linear foot, and fencing for the other two sides is $8 per linear foot; the four corner posts are $25 apiece. Let x be the length of one of the sides perpendicular to the river.
(a) Write a function C(x) that describes the cost of the project.
(b) What is the domain of C?

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Question 969191: If a swimming pool has a perimeter of 132 feet and is 21 feet wide, what is the area?
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Question 969226: What might the length of a swimming pool be if the length is 1600meters squared

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Question 969245: this problem is so difficult can someone please help me out :) thanks
A circular cone having an altitude of 9m is divided into two segments having the same vertex . if the smaller altitude is 6m , find the ratio of the volume of the small cone to the big cone
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Question 969244: can someone help me out with this problem thanks :)
A cylindrical tank with horizontal axis has a radius of 1m and 6 m long. If it is filled with gasoline to a depth of 1.3m, determine the volume of the gasoline in the tank.
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