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Question 973132: Distribute what is the coefficient of 4(4x+2-3x)
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Question 973133: April needs to wrap a box that is 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 1 foot high. How much paper will she need?
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Question 973129: how do I find the surface area of a sphere where the area of the great circle is 79 cm^2 ?
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Question 973129: how do I find the surface area of a sphere where the area of the great circle is 79 cm^2 ?
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Question 973209: If a square field is 77 meters on eaach side, how far is it from one corner to the oppposite corner?
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Question 973591: Jacob has a certain amount of fencing he wants to use to make a dog run. If he makes the length 36 feet, the width will be 9 feet, but if he makes the length 40 feet, the width will be only 5 feet. Write an equation in the form y = mx + b that can be used to find the width, y, for any given length x.
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Question 973662: Mai is flying a plane at an altitude of 1600 ft. She sights a stadium at an angle of depression of 35 degrees. What is mai's approximate horizontal distance from the stadium?
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Question 973673: Perimeter =26
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Question 973698: the length of a rectangle is 3 inches more than twice the width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 42 centimeters. what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 973710: A fish is added to a 10x20x12 inch aquarium. The water rises .25 inches. What is the volume of the fish?
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Question 973789: Perimeter of track is 94m. Lamps are places 2m apart along perimeter of track. How many lamps are needed

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Question 973789: Perimeter of track is 94m. Lamps are places 2m apart along perimeter of track. How many lamps are needed

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Question 973858: A baseball player's batting average is found by dividing the number of hits the player has by the number of at-bats the player has. Suppose a baseball player has 45 hits and 130 at-bats. Write and solve an equation to model the number of consecutive hits the player needs in order to raise his batting average to 0.400. Explain how you found your answer.
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Question 973885: Find the circumstance (x-4)^2+(y-5)^2
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Question 973929: y=-|3x+2|
Which answer is not correct
A when graphed it is V shaped
B one set of points is (-3,7)
C the domain is all real numbers
D the range is all real numbers
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Question 973928: The length of a quilt is 2 more feet than twice the width. Provide an equation of how to solve it.
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Question 973854: Simone and Sean are running in a four-mile relay race. After Simone completes the first two miles, Sean runs the second two miles. Sean runs 1 mile per hour slower than Simone. Together they complete the race in 0.9 hours. How fast did each person run? Justify your answer.
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Question 974229: HOW MANY SIDE HAS A REGULAR IF IT INTERIOR ANGLE ARE:144 DEGREE,133 DEGREE
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Question 974306: Find the center and radius of the circle with equation,
3x2 + 3y2 - 21x + 6 y + 7 = 0

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Question 974292: What's the radius of a metal container if: v=8.800cm3
Pi=3.14
h=28cm

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Question 974402:
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Question 974380: The book barn prices it's books by raising the wholesale price 55% and then adding 85 cents. What I'd the wholesale price of a paperback that sells for $5?
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Question 974390: The length of the top of a table is 5 m greater than the width/ The area is 104m^2. What is the dimension.
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Question 974676: Write a 2-digit number such as its tens digit is two less than the ones digit, and the sum of the digits is 8
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Question 974677: What is the sum of two numbers, if the smaller one is n, and the larger one is 7 more than the smaller one tripled?

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Question 974789: Find the area of a triangle with an angle of 30, a side of 6in and another side of 7in
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Question 975000: Thank you for answering my question:
To find the height of a tree, Jack used a mirror placed on the ground. He moved it until he could see the top of the tree in the mirror. At this point, his eye was 1.2m above the ground and the distance between the mirror and him was 1.4m, while the distance between the mirror and the tree was 4.2m. Find the height of the tree.
If possible, please include a brief explanation! Thanks so much! :)
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Question 975076: the area of a rectangle is x^2+6x+8 square units. if the length is x+4 units, find an algebraic expression for the perimeter

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Question 975265: How many cubical blocks of edge 40cm can be cut from a cuboid of dimensions 4.8 m � 3.2 m � 1.6 m?
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Question 975333: The ratio of two sides of two cubes is 2:3 and the difference of their volume is 152 cm^3. What is the length of the side of the bigger cube?
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Question 975411: There are cartons full of fencing. Each carton has 24 ft of fencing inside. If Amy wants to have a rectangular garden with the largest area possible what is the area
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Question 975451: A piece of paper area 60 cm square is divided in two pieces x and y so that the area of x is 2/3 of y. What is the area of x and y?
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Question 975451: A piece of paper area 60 cm square is divided in two pieces x and y so that the area of x is 2/3 of y. What is the area of x and y?
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Question 975536: Find the distance between the given pairs.
1. (6,-7) (6,0)
2. (-4,-11) (4,-7)
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Question 975535: The given points are vertices of a right triangle. Find the length of the hypotenuse of each triangle. (-4,-7) (0,6) (7,5)
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Question 975541: Suppose a triangle has two sides of length 2 and 3 and that the angle between these two sides is 60�. What is the length of the third side of the triangle?
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Question 975645:
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Question 975701: Subtract the first from the second expression.
a. 3x-2y+8z, 12x-y-10z
b. 3x-7y+9z, 12x-10y-7z
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Question 975702: Subtract the first from the second expression.
a. 4x-6y-3, 4x+6y-5
b. 5x-7y-9, 9x-10x-10
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Question 975808: You are the architect in charge of building a new tower. This tower is to be a cylinder capped by a hemisphere (a half of a sphere). This means that the cylinder part is like an open drum and only has a bottom. Note the hemisphere will have the same radius as the cylinder. Suppose further that the construction materials are priced as follows:
� Floor: $10 per square foot
� Siding (Walls): $15 per square foot
� Roof (Hemisphere): $20 per square foot
You will have a total materials budget of $200,000. What are the dimensions of the tower (radius and height of the cylinder) which will maximize the volume enclosed by the tower?
Please help!
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Question 975854: A gardener has 46 feet of fencing to be used to enclose a rectangular garden that has a border of 2 feet wide surrounding it.
A)if the length of the garden is to be twice its width, what will be the dimensions of the garden?
B)what is the area of the garden?
C)if the length and width of the garden are to be the same what would be the dimensions of the garden?
D)what would be the area of the square garden?

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Question 975933: a garden plot is to certain 200sq. ft. if its length is to be twice its width, what should its dimension be?
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Question 975516: find the distance between points P(1, 2) and Q(4, 8) to the nearest tenth
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