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Question 990106: A manufacturer needs to make a cylindrical container 3 feet high with surface area 8(pi symbol) square feet. What should be the radius of the container?
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Question 990165: A rectangular poster has an area of 260 square inches. the width of the poster is greater than 10 inches and is a prime number. what is the width of the poster?
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Question 990231: what is the area of the largest rectangle that can be drawn in a circle of radius 8?
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Question 990317: que conjunto esta definido en el plano por las siguientes ecuaciones de segundo orden : y dibuje en el plano cartesiano
3x� + 4y� = 12

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Question 990392: The perimeter of a triangle is 71 meters. The first side is two-thirds of the second side. The third side is 9 meters shorter than the second side. What are the lengths of the three sides?

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Question 990358: A gallon of paint would cover approximately 450 square feet . an artist wants to paint all the outside surfaces of a cube measuring 12 feet on each edge.what is the least number of gallons of paint he must buy to paint the cube?

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Question 990415: The soccer field at marios school has an area of 6,000 square meters. how can Mario show the area as a whole number multiplied by a power of ten?
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Question 990509: Find the gradient of the curve x^3+4xy-y^2=15 at the point (2,1)
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Question 990509: Find the gradient of the curve x^3+4xy-y^2=15 at the point (2,1)
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Question 990508: Find the nature of the stationery points of y=2x^3
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Question 990541: In a triangle, one angle measures 44 degrees. the measure of the second angle is twice the measure of the third angle. Find the measure of the third angle
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Question 990556: We are drawing two cards without replacement from a standard 52 card deck. Find the probability that we draw at least one black card. The probability is
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Question 990560: We roll a pair of dice three times. Find the probability that a total of five is rolled each time. The probability that a total of five is rolled each time is
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Question 990520: A mother is now four times as old as her daughter, three years ago, she was five times as old as her daughter, how old is the daughter?
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Question 990557: A pair of dice is rolled seven times. Find the probability of rolling an even total exactly once. The probability that an even total is rolled exactly once is
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Question 990756: The perimeter of the school crossing sign is 102 inches. What is the length of each side?
S, S+6, s+6, s, 2s, s
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Question 990837: f (x) = 2x - 8
Solve f(a) = -3
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Question 990845: If x=105 meters, n=40 meters, and m=35 meters, find the length of the side y.
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Question 990874: Joe's rectangular garden is 6 meters long and 4 meters wide. He wishes to double the area of his garden by increasing its length and width by the same amount. Find the number of meters by which each dimension must be increased.
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Question 990884: I have a 24 foot pool inside a deck. I want to put a border around the pool using 1X6 boards. There are 16 sides and 16 angles. How long to I cut each side and at what angle to I cut the boards? I tried 360/16 and got 22.5, but when I cut the boards at that angle, it was incorrect.
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Question 990983: An open box is made from a 30 cm by 58 cm piece of tin by cutting a square from each corner and folding up the edges. The area of the resulting base is 348 cm�. What is the length of the sides of the squares?
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Question 991218: In a parallelogram ABCD, AB18cm
AL|DC , AM|BC
if AL is 6.4cm
Find the length of AM.
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Question 991247: a rectangular computer graphics card must have an area of 110 square centimeters in order to hold all of its electronic parts. The card is 17 centimeters longer than its wide. The area of the card is given by its equation w(w+17)=110
Width-?
Length-?
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Question 991242: In a parallelogram ABCD, AB18cm BC 12CM
AL is perpendicular DC and AM is perpendicular BC
if AL is 6.4cm
Find the length of AM.
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Question 991246: Currently, you have a sandbox with a length of 2 yards and a width of 3 yards. You would like to increase the area of the sandbox 11 times its current area by adding to the width twice the distance you will add to the length. What will the new dimensions of the sandbox be?

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Question 991379: Six congruent square pavers are arranged as a walkway through a garden as seen below. The diagonal connecting two of these pavers is 15 inches.

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Question 991397: Henry throws a tennis ball over his house. The ball is 6 feet above the ground when he lets it go. The quadratic function that models the height, in feet, of the ball after t seconds is p(x)=-16t�+46t+6 How long does it take for the ball to hit the ground?
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Question 991469: Is 0 a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational number
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Question 991473: Is negative 1/2 a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational numbers
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Question 991472: Is 0.3 a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational number
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Question 991471: Is 0.4586 a natural, whole, integers, rational. Irrational number
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Question 991466: Is negative square root of 49 a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational numbers
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Question 991412: A swimming pool is in the shape of a rectangle. The length of the pool is 20 feet more than the width. A concrete deck 6 feet wide is added around the pool, and the perimeter of the deck is 160 feet. Find the dimensions of the swimming pool.
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Question 991573: THe measures of 2 angles are in the ratio 5:3 . The measure of the larger angle is 30 greater then half the difference of the angles. Find the measure of each angle.
I don't know how to start this problem, or the steps I would take to solve it, Could you help me?
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Question 991452: A triangle has side lenghts of 5 inches ,12 inches,15 inches .every dimension is multiplied by 1/5 to form a new triangle .how is the ratio of the perimeters related to the raop of cores spending sides

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Question 991703: The attendance at a baseball game was 400 people. Student tickets cost $2 and adult tickets cost $3. Total ticket sales were $1050. How many tickets of each type were sold ?
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Question 992030: Find the difference of negative 3/4 - {-5/8}
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Question 992061: Is .6 repeating a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational
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Question 992029: Explain how 7(4 x 4 x4-2(4+)] divide by 7 + 2 equals 52
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Question 992116: find cost of painting a tank of lenth 3m , breadth 4m , height 5m at Rs 20 per metre square
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Question 992060: is the square root of 81 a natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational
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Question 992133: The length and breadth of a page of my exercise book is 15 cm and 12 cm. margin of width 2 cm is drawn on all sides and wrote inside the margin . Find the area of the portion on which I wrote and also find the area of the portion on which I have not written.plz mam tell quickly because my tutor is going to come plz mam plz

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