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Question 987814: A factory is to be built on a lot measuring 150 ft by 200 ft. A local building code specifies that a lawn of uniform width and equal in area to the factory must surround the factory.
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Question 987955: A ware house 25 feet tall casts a shadow that is 15 feet long. At the same time of day, how long is the shadow cast by an apartment building that is 90 feet tall?
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Question 987993: California,USA has a coastline of 840 meters.How long will it take the coast guard to cover the coastline if they travel 300 miles in one our?thanks in advance.
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Question 988054: One side of a triangle is twice as long as the second side. The remaining side is 4 centimeters greater than the second side. The perimeter of the triangle is 24 centimeters. Find the length of each side of the triangle
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Question 988174: The surface area of a rectangular crate used to ship a sculpture is 672 square inches. If the base of the crate is a square with sides of length 8 inches, find the height of the crate.
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Question 988221: A childrens park is 3500m long and 200m wide. It is sorrounded by a pathway of uniform width. Suppose the total area of the park and the pathway is 74,464m�. How wide is the pathways. Thank you

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Question 988263: A rectangle of area 350 square feet is 14 times as wide as it is long. Find its length and width
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Question 988410: describe how you can use a formula to solve the following problem: the inner edge of a cube-shaped pot have a length of 1.5 feet. how much does it cost to fill the planter if soil costs $4 per cubic foot?
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Question 988548: Sam is making a square flower bed in his your.what is the perimeter of his flower bed if each edge measures 27 meter
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Question 988514: 2 cars come out at the same time in opposite directions, the first from Madrid to Valencia and the second from Valencia to Madrid, the distance between two cities 400 km . The first automobile travels at 100km / h and the second at 140 km / hour. How long will it take to cross ? At the time of crossing , what would be the distance traveled from each car?
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Question 988554: A flower bed is in the shape of
rectangle of which one side is 5m and the
other side is 4m. a rectangular path around
the bed has a width of 1,2 mm Calculate
how many square tiles of side 200m will be
needed to tile the path

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Question 988568: Mary's living room is 12'x20'. She wants to buy a carpet that will leave an equal border on all sides. If the area of the border is to be 1/3 of the area of the carpet, how big a carpet should Mary buy?
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Question 988596: the length of a rectangle is 5 cm greater than its width. the area is 500 square cm. find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 988651: A large grain silo is to be constructed in the shape of a circular cylinder with a hemisphere attached to the top (see the figure). The diameter of the silo is to be 30 feet, but the height is yet to be determined. Find the height h of the silo that will result in a capacity of 13,500π ft3.
I got 50 as the height by 13500π= (1/2(4/3*15^3))+((15^2)h) and solving for h. however i was told the answer is 65

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Question 988665: A triangle has a perimeter of 84 centimeters. Each of the two longer sides of the triangle is three times as long as the shortest side. Find the length of each side of the triangle.
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Question 988696: find the measure of two supplementary angles, N and M, if the measure of angle N is 5 less than 4 times the measure of angle M.
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Question 988730: Two angles in a triangle are equal and their sum is equal to the third angle in the triangle. What are the measures of each of the three interior angles?
Can you please help me on this one?
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Question 988737: Use expressions for even and odd integers to confirm the conjecture that the product of an even integer and an odd integer is an even integer.
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Question 988784: An artist want to frame a square painting with an area of 400 square inches. She wants to know the length of the wood trim that is needed to go around the painting. If x is the length of one side of the painting, what equation can you set up to find a length of the side?
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Question 988699: the garden club wants to create a square flower garden that has a side length of 40 feet. in the center of this garden will be a fountain with a circular base that has a 10 foot diameter. what is the area of ground that is available for planting flower?

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Question 988817: How much will 684 tiles cost if the price of the tiles is 100 per square meter?
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Question 988932: What would the next equation be to keep the pattern going?
1+2=3
4+5+6=7+8

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Question 988904: The perimeter of a pool tale is 30 ft. The table is twice as long as it is wide. What is the length of the pool table?
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Question 989029: The sides of a rectangle are x cm and 5 cm. The perimeter is 29 cm. Write an equation and evaluate the value of x cm.
29=2x+2(5)
29-10=2x
2x=19
x=9.5 cm
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Question 989080: The three sides of a right angled triangle are x cm, (x + 17) and (x + 18). Form a quadratic equation in x and solve to find the length of the hypotenuse, the longest side.

PS. A triangle was given in the problem but I cannot draw it here, the hypotenuse side was given as (x + 18)
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Question 989230: the length of the rectangular surface of a shoe box when decreased by 6cm is equal to the width. if the perimeter is 68 centimeters find the dimensions
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Question 989236: A square is cut diagonally and the diagonal measures 8 inches. How long is each side?
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Question 989239: A large swimming pool has a perimeter of 1,096 meters, this rectangular-shaped pool is 30 meters longer than 6 times its width. Find its dimensions.
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Question 989264: 1. A triangle has a side lenght of 3x + 2, 2x + 1 and 4x - 1. The perimeter is 11x - 2. Find the lengths of the sides of the triangle.
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Question 989264: 1. A triangle has a side lenght of 3x + 2, 2x + 1 and 4x - 1. The perimeter is 11x - 2. Find the lengths of the sides of the triangle.
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Question 989355: Dee has 40 yds of fencing to enclose a safe space for her rabbits. Would a circle or square provide more area for her rabbits and by how many square yards to the nearest 0.1 yd squared? Answers provided are A. Square by 21.5 yd squared
B. Square by 36.3 yd squared
C. Circle by 27.3 yd squared
D. Circle by 245.9 yd squared
Thanks!
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Question 989348: A building in a city has a rectangular base. The length of the base measures
70 ft less than three times the width. The perimeter of the base is 900 ft. What are the dimensions of the base?
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Question 989303: A rectangular painting measures 13 inches by 20 inches and contains a frame of uniform width sound the four edges. The perimeter of the recrangle formed by the painting and its frame is 98 inches. Determine the width of the frame.
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Question 989499: the perimeter P of a rectangle is related to the length L and width W through the equation P=2L+2W. Dtermine the width in terms of the perimeter and length.
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Question 989671: A rectangular field has dimensions of 91 feet by 60 1/3 feet. What is the area of the field.
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Question 989713: I need help with the side length of a square tile that has a perimeter of 56cm please
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Question 989710: Four boys step off from the same place. If their steps measure 16cm, 28, 40, 77 respectively at what time will they next toll together?

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Question 989870: A map has a s�cale of 2inches = 15 miles. If tal towns are 7 inches apart on the map,how far apart are they actually?
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Question 989872: The blacktop at the park is 30 feet wide. The blacktop is 6 feet longer than it is wide. what is the area of the laptop
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Question 989871: A circular pond has diameter of 4.5 feet. Which is closest to the circumference of the pond?
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Question 989943: The perimeter of a basketball court is 280 feet the length is 44 foot longer than the width find the dimension of the court
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Question 990068: The perimeter of a rectangle with width 10 inches and length 13 inches is
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