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Question 969291: Need help for this problem ty
The volume of the frustum of a regular triangular pyramid is 135 cu. M . The lower base is an equilateral triangle with an edge of 9cm . The upper base is 8m above the lower base . What is the upper base edge in meters
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Question 969490: Juliet has 900 ft of fencing to build 6 animal pens. What dimensions for x and y maximize the total enclosed area? What is the total maximum area? What is the maximum size for one of the six animal pens?
The diagram shown 2x3 rectangle with six animal pens inside.
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Question 969491: A company is building triangular garden next to an office building as shown in the aerial view diagram. The hypotenuse of the right triangle will border the west side of the building which is 75 feet long. The design crew wants the other two borders of the garden to be different lengths so that the first side, S1, will be twice the length of the other border, S2. What are the lengths of the two borders of the garden, to the nearest hundredth of a foot?
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Question 969740: Jack would like to erect a fence on all four sides of his new garden with an area of 225m^2. The fencing will cost him $35 per metre. In order to use the least fencing he would like the garden to be a minimum. The fence will be supported by wooden fence poles, approximately 1.5 m apart and a gate 1.5 m long, made of the same fence can be placed between any two poles. Each wooden fence pole would cost $9.50
1. Calculate the lenght of each side of the garden
2.How many metres of fencing will he need?
3. How many fence poles will he need?
4. How much will the fencing and the fence poles, excluding the gate, cost him?
(Please I really need help)
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Question 969845: A bowl contains 4 yellow marbles and 3 red marbles. Michael randomly draws 4 marbles from the bowl. He replaces each marble after it is drawn. What is the probability that he draws 3 yellow marbles and 1 red marble?
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Question 969845: A bowl contains 4 yellow marbles and 3 red marbles. Michael randomly draws 4 marbles from the bowl. He replaces each marble after it is drawn. What is the probability that he draws 3 yellow marbles and 1 red marble?
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Question 969876: Computer monitor sizes are based on the length of their diagonal distance across the screen. For example, if you have a 35” monitor, this is measured by the length of their diagonal distance across the screen from one corner to the other. If a 35” monitor had a height of 21”, what would be the width across the monitor equal?
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Question 970540: Alex has a grid in the shape of a rectangle. He has right triangles. Each right triangle has an area of 25 square millimeters and each right triangle fits on the grid.
If the length of the grid is 20 centimeters and the width is 12 centimeters, how many right triangles can Alex fit on the grid?
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Question 970686: Two rolls of carpet are together worth £574. The first roll costs £8 per metre. The second which is 7m longer than the first costs £7 per metre. How many metres wre there in each roll? Need equation to work this out please.
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Question 970736: a particle is projected from ground level so that its height above the ground after t second is given by 20 t-5t square meters. after how many seconds is it 15 meter above the ground? can you explain briefly why there are two possible answers?
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Question 970877: A swimming pool is 24 feet wide by 45 feet long. George swims along the diagonal of the pool 5 times in one direction and 5 times in the other direction. What is the total number of feet that George swims?
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Question 970863: Sharon is making rectangular posters. Each poster has an area of 4800 square inches and the length is 20 inches more than the width. Find the length and width of her poster.
If x represents the width of each poster, select all the equations that could be used to solve this problem.
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Question 971107: What is the length of a flag with a 15 inch diagonal and 9 inch height?
( I just started learning Pythagorean theorem and I realize the formula is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. Would that mean C^2 is 15^2 and a^2 is 9^2? Then you basically just try to find A by subtracting C and A then figuring out what number times itself equals the answer? )
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Question 971397: sighting the top of building, a surveyor measured the angle of elevation to be 45 degree the transit in 12 feet above the ground and 100 feet from the building. what is the buildings height?
a. 100 feet
b. 112 feet
c. 88 feet
d. 90 feet
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Question 971510: A bird catches a fish and flies 100 yards in a straight line at an angle of elevation x° from the ground. After flying for 100 yards, the bird drops the fish. The fish lands at a spot y yards horizontally from where the bird caught it. What is x?
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