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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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Question 980005: How to design of shaft
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Question 980023: if x - 4, 4 - x and x form an arithmetic progression, what is x? please help with a little explanation.thanks in advance.
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Question 979860: The length of a box is five meters less than the twice the width.The hieght is 4 meters more than three times the width.The box has a volume of 520 cubic meters.which of the following equations can be used to find the height of the box?
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Question 980091: The area of a triangle is 39 square ft. The length of one side is 1 ft more than teice the altitude to that side. Find the length of that side and the altitude to the side.
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Question 980168: a rectangular box has a surface area of 960 squared centimetres. it has a square end. each side length is a whole number of centimetres. find two different sets of dimensions that satisfy these conditions
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Question 980210: A city council consists of 10 members. Four are Republicans, three are Democrats, and three are Independents. If a committee of three is to be selected, find the probability of selecting
All Democrats. Round your answer to five decimal places.

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Question 980108: The angles of elevation of an office building as observed from the top and ground level of a 10 meters tall residential building are 68� and 72� respectively. How tall is the building? How far apart are the two buildings?
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Question 980270: The perimeter of a rectangular pool is more than 62 meters, and the width is at least 10 meters less than the length. Which system of inequalities represents the possible length in meters, l, and the possible width in meters, w, of the pool?

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Question 980310: The length of a rectangular lot is 4m (meters) longer than the width. If the area of the lot is 12m^2, what are its dimensions?
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Question 980353: Find the angle if its complement is 40 degrees less than one half of its supplement.
A:45 Degrees
B:55 Degrees
C:65 Degrees
D:70 Degrees
E:80 Degrees
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Question 980433: What is the unit's digit in the number 4^478?
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Question 980434: Mildred stands 45 feet from a tree to measure the angle to the top of the tree.the angle measures 65 degrees. How tall is the tree to the nearest foot?

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Question 980431: On Monday a store put out 10 watermelons to be sold and some were sold. on Tuesday the number leftover was doubled and again the same number were sold as on Monday. on Wednesday the number leftover was tripled and the same sold as on Monday leaving none left over. how many were sold each day ?
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Question 980489: A carpenter needs to cut a board into fourths. If the board is 12ft 8in long originally, how long will each cut piece be?
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Question 980516: Length of a rectangle is increased by 6%. What will be the increase in breadth if the area of the rectangle remains the same.?
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Question 980432: Each of five people have a car with a full 1 gallon gas tank. Each car goes 10 miles on a gallon. They all can carry at most 5 one-gallon cans of gasoline. They start together and wish to have one car go as far due west as possible and yet have all the cars return. Only unopened cans can be transferred to other cars. What is the most miles due west that one car can go?
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Question 980545: An open-top, square bottom crate is made of two materials--the sides are made of a light material that costs $3 per square foot and the bottom is made with a heavier material that costs $5 per square foot. If the volume of the crate has to be 5 cubic feet, what should be the dimensions of the crate to minimize the cost of the materials to build the crate. Assume that the labor and assembly materials cost the same no matter the dimensions of the crate and excess materials can be reused.
The available multiple choice answers for my homework problem are:
1) Base is 2ft x 2ft and Height is 1.25ft
2) Base is 1.82ft x 1.82ft and Height is 1.51ft
3) Base is 2.24ft x 2.24ft and Height is 1ft
4) Base is 5ft x 1ft and Height is 1ft
Thanks.
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Question 980672: A square painting is surrounded by a 3 centimeter-wide frame. If the total area of the painting plus the frame is 961 sq cm, find the dimensions of the painting.
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Question 980783: length of a rectangle is 5 inches longer than the width perimeter is 38 find the area
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Question 980783: length of a rectangle is 5 inches longer than the width perimeter is 38 find the area
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Question 980791: length of a rectangle is 5 times its width perimeter is 84 find the area
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Question 980808: A piece of 2m long wire is to be cut into two pieces one of which is to be formed into a circle and the other into an equilateral triangle. How should the wire be cut so that the total area enclosed is (a) a minimum and (b) a maximum
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Question 980829: the base of piller crane is fastend to the foundation by ten bolts spaced equally on a bolt circle pf diameter 2000mm the diameter of the piller base is2500mm determine the size of bolts when the crane carries a load of 50kn at a distance of 6250mm from the centre of the base. the allowable stress for bolt is100n/mm2
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Question 980886: Arrange all the digits from 1 to 9 only once, so that they will add to 100.pls help with a little explanation and technique or strategy in solving this kind of problem.thnaks in advance and more power.

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Question 980905: The factory also makes a triangular rug. It is an isosceles triangle f feet wide
with a perpendicular height of 1 foot 6 inches. How much braid will Gloria
need to cut to go all the way around the rug?

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Question 980882: the base of an isosceles triangle is 3cm less than the length of
the equal sides.if the perimeter of the triangle is 36cm,find the length
of each side
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Question 980868: One number is one less than twice another, and the difference between squares is 16, find the numbers

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Question 980868: One number is one less than twice another, and the difference between squares is 16, find the numbers

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Question 980883: a city recreation in the shape of a square has an area of 2100m^2 and if to be fenced. two one meter entrancces are to be left open. how much fencing is needed
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Question 980986: Please help
The combined Area of a square and a rectangle is 57 square feet. The width of the rectangle is 3 feet more than the length of a side of the square and the length of the rectangle is 5 feet more than the length of a side of the square. Find the length of the rectangle.
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Question 980985:
Norman invested a certain amount of money at 8% simple interest and $200 more than that amount at 9%. His total yearly interest was $86. How much did he invest at each rate?

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Question 981018: The lowest city in the world is -846 feet below sea level and the highest city in the world sits at 16728 feet above sea level. What is the vertical distance between these two cities
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Question 980987: a brace for a shelf has the shape of a right triangle. its hypotenuse is 20 inches and the legs are equal in length. How long are the legs of the triangle
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Question 981048: The height is 2 meters longer than the length and the width is one third of the height what is the volume
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Question 981064: A rectangular aquarium 3 ft x 2ft x 1ft is 2/3 full of water. In cubic feet, how much water is in the tank
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Question 981069: the soule's live on a corner lot. Often children cut across their lot to save time. given the values for pythagereoms theorom how many feet of walking distance is saved by cutting across?
a=x
b=x+21
c=51
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Question 981071: Susan is attending to construct a square table with each side like equaling 3 feet. To check her work, Susan measures the diagonal of the square when she's finished constructing the table. What should the diagonal be if the side lanes are indeed 30 feet.
A. 3 feet
B. 4.24
C. 12.72
D. 9 feet
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Question 981074: Daniel is 6 feet tall and cast shadow of 3.5 feet long. If his daughter is 4 feet tall, how long will her Shadow be?
A.1.9
B.5.3
C.2.3333333
D.4.5
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Question 981141: a school play ground in the shape of a triangle has sides of 450 feet, 375 feet and 574 feet what is the distance around the playground

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Question 981270: a yard measures 30 ft by 30 ft. if the owner wants 3 equal sections for gardening, how many square feet will be in each section?
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