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Question 981312: there are 7 healthy blue fish ,3 unhealthy yellow fish,8 healthy green fish and 3 unhealthy blue fish in a tank. What is the probability of catching a healthy fish? Give your answer as a percentage rounded to the nearest tenth.
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Question 981341: one side of a square is 5 yards less than a side of an equilateral triangle. If the perimeter of the square is the same as the perimeter of the triangle, what is the lenght of a side of the square? and of the triangle?
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Question 981429: triangle..what are the inches for each side if I give you this info?
39"L x 39"W
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Question 981504: Circumference of a circle with area 36 pie square centimeters?
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Question 981586: A food company distributes its tomatoes soup in two cans of different sizes. For the larger can both the diameter and the height have been increased by 30 percent. By what percentage does the volume of the can increase from the smaller can to the larger can? Round your answer to the nearest percent
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Question 981584: A flower garden is shaped like a circle. It's radius is 16yd. A ring shaped path goes around the garde. The width of the path is 5yd. The gardener is going to cover the path with sand. If one bag of sand can cover 7yd^2, how many bags of sand does the gardener need. Sand only comes by the bad so number of bad must be a whole number. Use value 3.14 for pie
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Question 981751: At a certain time of day, a tree that is x meters tall casts a shadow that is x-35 meters long if the distance from the top of the tree to the end of the shadow is x+5 meters long, what is the height, x, of the tree
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Question 981732: The side of rhombus is 5cm. if length of the rhombus is 8 cm then find the length of other side.
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Question 981838: An air conditioning system can circulate 520 cubic feet of air per minute. How many cubic yards of air can it circulate per minute?
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Question 982050: The following room sizes need carpet in it. One room is a 10x20 and 2 are 10x14 in size. The cost of DuPont Stan master Saxony carpeting is $6.99 per square foot. This price includes the cost of installation. Determine the cost to have this carpeting install in all three rooms.
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Question 982051: The total are of square is 18x+90x+80, what is its side?
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Question 982095: In an arithmetic sequence, the sixth term is twice the third term and the 30th term is 60. Find the common difference
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Question 982123: a rectangular 24 meter long has the same area as a square that is 12 meters on a side. what are the dimension of the rectangle?
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Question 982210: A rectangle has area 6cm^2 and diagonal of 2 root5 cm. What is its perimeter?
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Question 982219: The new St Andrew's swimming pool is 20 meters long and 10 meters wide. A tiled path with a width of 2 meters has been laid all the way around the edge of the pool (as they do with most pools). What is the area of this tiled pathway.
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Question 982369: a rectangle measures 16 cm by 4 cm. If the base and height are both increased by the same amount, the area becomes 160 centimeter squared. find the increase in base and height

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Question 982370: The length of a rectangle is 5 cm less than than thrice its width. find the dimensions of the rectangle if its area is 112 centimeter squared

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Question 982429: Two cylinders both have a height of 10 inches, however the radius of Cylinder A is 3 times the radius of Cylinder B. Joe claims that the volume of Cylinder A must be 3 times as much as the volume of Cylinder B. Is Joe correct or incorrect? If he is incorrect, find the actual relationship between the two volumes.
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Question 982332: Solve and illustrate the problem. Thank you.t
The bearing of a lighthouse 19.2km from a boat sailing due west is N35�15'W. At the end of 3hours the boat is directly south of the lighthouse. What is the speed of the boat?
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Question 982368: find the height and base of a rectangle if it has a base of x+2 and height of x-2 with an area of 32 centimeter squared
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Question 982473: The perimeter of this triangle is 168 cm. The length of the longest side is twice that of the shortest side. The sum of the lengths of the shortest side and the longest side is 48 cm more than the length of side b. Find the length of each side.

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Question 982525: Determining the area and circumference of a circle 26ft....... Area would be....... Circumference would be....
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Question 982523: A family room measures 24ft by 24ft, they are covering the floor with square tiles that measure 1ft on a side and cost $0.88 each... How much will they spend on the tile?
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Question 982537: I have 8 angles to find the degrees for.... One of the is given.... ML4 is 121 degrees..... What would be the other 7 angles..?
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Question 982524: A triangle with 3 sides, with one right angle. The height is 5km and the slant of the triangle is 13km.... The base is X..... What is the volume of the base, the area km squared and the perimeter.......
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Question 982700: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm more than twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 42 cm, find the length of the rectangle.

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Question 982754: Two walls of a room are 4 yards long, and the other two are 5 yards long. The ceiling is 10 feet high. If it costs $.80 per square foot for plastering, find the cost of plastering the walls and ceiling.
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Question 982753: Alfredo is estimating the cost of an addition to his home. He will build two retamgular- shaped rooms with a combined area that measures 60 feet by 18 feet. If the concrete slab (foundation) must be 8inches thick and the concrete costs $27.00 a cubic yard, how much will the concrete for the slab cost?
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Question 982766: the sides of a triangle are in the ratio 5:12:13. What is the length of each side of the triangle if the perimeter of the triangle is 15 inches?
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Question 982866: 1. the perimeter of a five sided figure with sides 2x-3 cm plus 2x-3 cm plus 12 cm plus 2x cm plus x square is 78 cm. what is the value of x?
2. which table shows the same rate of change of y with respect to x as
y = 4 - 5/8x? how to find the rate of change with values of (-4, 6.5),
(2, 2.75), (4, 1.5), (8, -1).
3. which inequality is equivalent to -3x + 2y > 5y + 9?
4. solve the quadratic equation -4.5x squared + 72 = 0
5. if f(x) is 2/3x squared + 8x, what is the value of f(6)?
I got 56 which is the wrong answer.

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Question 982991: The length of a rectangle is 5 m longer than the width. If the area is 22 m�, find the rectangles dimension. Round to the nearest 10th of
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Question 983189: the length of a rectangular piece sheet metal is 3 cm less than twice. a 4cm square is cut from end corner of the metal and the sides are bent up so that the metal forms an open box. if the volume of the box is 208 cm cube, what are the original dimensions of the metal?
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Question 983567: the length of a rectangular painting is 3 inches greather than its width. The area of the painting is 108 square inches. Find the dimensions of the painting.
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Question 983575: A carpenter wants to build a diagonal brace for a rectangular gate that is 5 feet wide and 7 feet high, as shown in the figure. Approximately what is the length, in feet, of the diagonal brace?
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Question 983576: Moon designs a cupboard with a volume of 6 cubic meters. If the cupboard is 3m high and 1m long, what is its breadth?
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Question 983583: A square garden has to be paved with bricks all around. Find the perineter of the garden if the length of one side is 6.5m?
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Question 983619: A walkway 3 m wide surrounds a rectangular plot if grass. The plot is 60 m long by 30 m wide. What is the area of the walkway?
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Question 983584: The aquarium in sid spacewalker's home has a volume of 12000 centi meter cube. If it is 30cm long and 20cm wide, how high is it?
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Question 983790: Hi,
Farmer John is building a rectangular corral for cows. The railing that goes around the corral costs $8 per linear foot. Farmer John has decided that the length of the corral will be twice as long as the width. Farmer John will also be purchasing cows to fill the corral to capacity. Each cow costs $800 and requires 20 sq feet of space.
Let w represent the width of the corral in feet.
a) write a simplified expression, in terms of w, for the number of cows farmer John can fit in the corral
20 ft squared/2w squared???
b) Write a simplified expression in terms of w for the amount of money Farmer John will spend on cows?
(20ft squared/2w squared)x $800 ???
c) Write a simplified expression in terms of w that expresses the amount of money Farmer Johns will spend on the corral and cows?
Thanks in advance.
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Question 983842: Find the perimeter of a quadrilateral with vertices at C (−1, 2), D (−2, −1), E (2, −2), and F (1, 1). Round your answer to the nearest hundredth when necessary.
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Question 983851: I'm having a lot of trouble solving this word problem! Please help!
A silo is composed of a right circular cylinder with a right circular cone on the top of the cylinder that has the same radius. The height of the cone is half the height of the cylinder and the circumference of the cylinder is 20pi feet.
a.) Write the volume of the silo in terms of the height of the cylinder, h.
b.) If you want the volume of the silo to be 700 cubic feet, what should be the total height of the silo?
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