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Question 975936: a garden plot is to certain 200 sq. ft. if its length is to be twice its width. what should its dimension be?
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Question 975649: Two circles touch externally with their radius being 25 and 9 cm. A common tangent is drawn.another circle touching both the circles and the tangent is drawn.what is the radius of that small circle
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Question 976032: How high is a chimney whose shadow is 28 m. long when a five-foot gate cast a twelve-foot shadow?
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Question 976448: A health club charges non-members $5 per day to swim and $9 per day for an exercise class. Members pay a yearly fee of $300 plus $4 per day to attend an exercise class and no swim fee. If Robert swims and takes an exercise class every time he goes to the gym, which equation shows the number of days he must use the gym to make the membership worthwhile?
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Question 976770: A tetherball game (pictured here) has a ball on the end of a rope. If the rope is 8 ft. long, what is the maximum playing area (with rope extended straight from the top of the pole)? (Use 3.14 for π.)

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Question 976810: If the length of a side of a square is increased by 3 cm, the perimeter of the new square is 40 cm more than twice the length of the side of the original square. Find the length of the side of the original square.
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Question 976811: Sally left the house at 8;00 am and is running at eight miles per hour. Two hours later, Matt left to catch sally, driving his car at 40 mph. At what time will Matt catch Sally?
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Question 976905: A window is in the shape of a rectangle with a semicircle attatched to one of the shorter sides. The rectangle measures two feet by five feet. What is the area of the window, please show steps;)
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Question 976906: A circular, two feet wide, asphalt walkway is poured which has a diameter of forty feet, measured from the outside edge. What is the area of the walkway?
please show steps;)
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Question 976915: 3 solid spherical balls of radi 3cm,4cm,5cm are melted into single ball than its radius is ?
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Question 976915: 3 solid spherical balls of radi 3cm,4cm,5cm are melted into single ball than its radius is ?
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Question 976768: the perimeter of a quadrilateral is 19 inches. The longest side is twice as long as the shortest side. The other two sides are equally long and are 2 inches longer than the shortest side. Find the length of all four sides
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Question 977182: Fran works due north of her home. Her husband Ben works due east. They leave work at the same time. By the time Fran is 5 miles from home, the distance between them is one mile more than Ben's distance from home.
How far from home is Ben?
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Question 977343: the school playground is in the shape of a rectangle 600 feet long and 300 feet wide. If Fencing cost $21 per yard what will it cost to place fencing around the playground?
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Question 977463: If I know all the angles of a triangle and one side, how do I calculate the other sides?
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Question 977469: If I know all the angles and one side of a right triangle, how do I calculate the other two sides?
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Question 977554: The factory makes a rectangular rug that is 4 feet long and 2 feet 6 inches side. How much braid will Gloria need to go all the way around the rug

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Question 977567: A gym is 180ft long, 20yds wide and 144inches tall. What is the volume?
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Question 977536: Mr. Cayetano plans to install a new exhaust
fan on his room�s square-shaped wall. He
asked a carpenter to make a square opening
on the wall where the exhaust fan will be
installed. The square opening must have an
area of 0.25 m2.
1. Draw a diagram to illustrate the given situation.
2. How are you going to represent the length of a side of the square-shaped wall?
How about its area?
3. Suppose the area of the remaining part of the wall after the carpenter has made
the square opening is 6 m2. What equation would describe the area of the
remaining part of the wall?
4. How will you find the length of a side of the wall?
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Question 977680: Please answer this word problem with drawing if possible:
1. Elmo is buying glass for two square tabletops. One tabletop is two feet wider than the other. If he needed 34 sq. ft. of glass what are the dimensions of each tabletop.
2. The volume of the rectangular box is x cube+10x squared+31x+30 cubic inches. if its height is x+2 inches, how long are the length and the width?
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Question 978089: One leg in a 45�-45� right triangle has a lenghth of 8. What is the lenght of a hypotenuse?
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Question 978064: A walkway 3 feet wide surrounds a rectangular plot of grass. The plot is 70 feet long and 25 feet wide so what is the area of the walkway?
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Question 977972: On airplane navigation maps, towers more than 1,000 feet tall have a special marking.
A new radio tower, WBETZ, has just been built. To stabilize the tower, a guy wire runs from the top of the tower to the ground. This wire is 2180 feet long and makes an angle of 27 degrees with the ground.
Does the WBETZ tower need a special marking on the navigation map?
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Question 978181: the area of chessboard is 1600 square inches. what is the measure of its sides ft.
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Question 978180: what is of its sides ft.the area of a chessboard is 1600 square inches.
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Question 978359: A playground has an area of 456 meters and a perimeter of 100 meters. How long and wide is it.
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Question 978359: A playground has an area of 456 meters and a perimeter of 100 meters. How long and wide is it.
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Question 978453: A reel of electric wire 150 metres long cut into two pieces. One is 40 metres shorter than twice the length of the other. How long is each piece.
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Question 978764: I have an area 120 feet by105 feet that needs to be divided equally into 126 squares. How many squares across and vertically will that be?
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Question 978780: rectangular shed is 280 ft. the length is 3 times the width. what is the width and length?
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Question 978834: A 30 inch piece of steel is cut into three pieces so that the second piece is twice as long as the first piece, and the third piece is two inches more than four times the length of the first piece. Find the length of all pieces.
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Question 978889: a rectangular garden is 30 feet by 40 feet long.A walk of uniform with that surrounds it has an area of 280 square feet.Find the width of the walk
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Question 978890: a rectangular garden is 30 feet by 40 feet long.A walk of uniform with that surrounds it has an area of 280 square feet.Find the width of the walk

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Question 979164: The difference of two numbers is 7. The sum of the two numbers is 13. What are the two numbers?
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Question 978980: A raised flower bed is 25 ft long, 8 ft wide, and 1.5 ft deep. find the area of the bed and the volume of soil it holds.
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Question 979370: A polygon has n sides. Three of its interior angles are 50 degrees, 60 degrees and 70 degrees. The remaining(n-3) exterior angles are each 15 degrees. Calculate the value of n.
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Question 979436: A square lawn whose area is 72 square yards wished to convert to a rectangular lawn of the same area. if the length of the rectangular lawn must be 3 times as long as its width, what is the possible dimension of the rectangular lawn?
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Question 979457: Each floor of a square building has an area of 6.4�105 square feet.
What is the length of each side of the floor?
feet
If the building has 12 stories, each with the same floor area, what is the total area of all of the floors?
square feet
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Question 979476: an architect is designing a race track that will be 60 ft wide and have semicircular ends. the length of the track is to be one mile, measured on the inside edge of the track.
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Question 979470: triangle ABC is a right isosceles tri. with rt.angle at C.CD||AB &BD=BA.Find the angle DBC.?
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Question 979375: solve the deck of a container ship is 1,200 ft. long and 300 ft. wide. if one container is 30 ft. long and 10ft. wide and can be stacked four high. How many container can the ship catty @ a time?
solve for x in the equation 2( x+ 2) -4x =12
Simplify the expression 5( 3z - 7z = 4)
what is the value of (x)(y)(z) with each digit from 0-9 4z
27
+x5
___
y14
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Question 979455: teresa is 3x older than her sister ann. if ann is 8 years old now find teresa's age when ann is 15 years old by completing and simplifying the expression 15 - ____ + (3 x ___).please help with a little explanation.thanks in advance.
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Question 979624: What is the formula for the following question: you have a rectangular backyard with a length of 55 yards and a width of 20 yards. You want to place a tiki torch every 5 yards around the edge of your backyard. How many torches do you need? I have already tried graphing the question and counting it, with and without counting corners. I have also tried dividing each of these numbers by five, adding it up, and multiplying it by two.
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Question 979632: Carl in has two times as many sisters as brothers and his younger sister has two times as many brothers as sisters. How many children did carls parent's have ?

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