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Question 994825: line segment AB has the endpoints A(-4,5) and B(3,5). what is the x-coordinate of a point C such that B is the midpoint of line segment AC
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Question 994915: For a certain bowling league a beginning bowler computes her handicap by taking 90% of the difference between 220 and her average score in a league play. Determine the average scores that would produce a handicap of 72 or less.Also assume that a negative handicap is not possible in this league.
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Question 995084: Rahul leaves his house at 7.30am and cycles to school. Rahul's mother notices that he has left his lunch at home. She leaves the house 5 minutes after Rahul left to give him his lunch. Rahul cycles at an average speed of 8mi/h and his mother drives at an average speed of 24mi/h. Determine how long it takes Rahul's mother to catch up with Rahul.
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Question 995101: I need help to answer this problem: the measure of an interior angle of a regular polygon is given. Find the number of sides. For numbers 120, 108, and135
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Question 995354:
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Question 995677: A rose garden is designed by joining a rectangle and a semicircle.The rectangle is 20ft long and 12ft wide. If Tammy wants to build a fence around the garden, how many feet of fence are required? Use 3.14 for π,and do not round.
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Question 995547: a trapezoidal gutter is to be made, from a strip of metal 12m wide by bending up the edges. Determine where to bend the metal and the angle to bend it at to maximise the cross sectional area and hence the capacity of the gutter

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Question 995759: If a window is to be 7 feet wide, how high should it be, to the nearest tenth of a foot, to be a golden rectangle? Assume that the width of the window is larger than height.
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Question 995923: A 13 feet ladder is placed 5 feet away from a wall. The distance from the ground straight up to the top of the wall is 13 feet. Will the ladder reach the top of the wall?
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Question 995929: A rug is to fit in a room so that a border of even width is left on all four sides. If the room is 12 feet by 15 feet and the area of the rug is 108 square feet, how wide will the border be?
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Question 995958: the area of a square carpet tile is 900 square centimeters. what is the length of one edge of the tile?
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Question 996016: Please help me solve this question: A square rug measures 6 feet wide. What is the length of the diagonal?
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Question 996180: The area of a square bathroom is 4 in2. What is the measure of each side?
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Question 996206: a square lawn has an area of 144 m2.
a.what is its perimeter in metres?
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Question 996398: externalfile:drive-400f138c5a20b4ec8cc8d8ac062884872b41bda9/root/Module 1.pdf Pg. 8 Question 11-12.
Can someone help me explain how this works?
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Question 996452: The perimeter of an isoceles right angled triangle is 2p unit. The area of the same triangle is ?
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Question 996598: a family wants to build a cement walkway of constant width around a 25ft X 30ft rectangular pool. They have enough cement for 504 sq ft. Assuming they use all the cement, how wide should they make the walkway?
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Question 996694: If height is 220 and breath is 180 find the square?
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Question 996753: The point Q is twice as far from (-2,-8) as it is from (13,5). If it lies on the segment joining the two, what are the coordinates of Q?
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Question 996806: fred can drink 8 and 3/4 sodas in 5 minutes. How many sodas can he drink in 2 minutes?
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Question 996967: Catherine designed a pendant. It is a regular hexagon set in a circle.
Suppose the opposite vertices are connected by line segments and
meet at the center of the circle. What is the measure of each angle
formed at the center?
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Question 997145: A wire of length 6x is bent into the shape of a circle
A. Express the circumference of the circle as a function of x.
B. Express the area of the circle as a function of x.
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Question 997227: 1. Four pens and five pencils cost a total of $3.70. If a pen costs 25 cents more than a pencil , find the cost of each item.
2. The perimeter of a rectangle is 44 centimetres. If its length is three times its width, find the dimensions of the rectange.
Please answer with working out
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Question 997237: Gregory has $6 more than Penny, and Phillip has $13 less than Gregory. How much does each person have if they have $29 altogether?
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Question 997418: The Perimeter of a rectangle is 54m. If the width is doubled and the length were increased by 15m, the perimeter would be 98m. What are the length and width of the rectangle?

it says to solve via substitution.
I keep getting 14.5 for x, yet on my answer sheet its wrong. I must be doing something incorrect.
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Question 997453: When george was 12 his father was 3 times his age. Now his father his only twice his age. How old are they now.
Please show working out
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Question 997516: AT is 5 less than thrice x and TH is 5 more than x. What is the value of x and the measure of the two segments?
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Question 997526: A 13 feet ladder is placed 5 feet away from a wall. The distance from the ground straight up to the top of the wall is 13 feet. Will the ladder reach the top of the wall?
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Question 997529: find the dimensions of a rectangle if its diagonal is 17 meters and its perimeter is 46 meters
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Question 997529: find the dimensions of a rectangle if its diagonal is 17 meters and its perimeter is 46 meters
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Question 997527: find the dimensions of a rectangle if its diagonal is 17 meters and its perimeter is 46 meters
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Question 997594: The height of a right triangle is 4 feet more than three times the length of its base. Express the area of the triangle as a function of the length of its base, x, in feet.
f(x)=?
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Question 997883: The area of a fenced in yard is the hundred and 17 ft.� the length
of the yard is 13 feet find the width of the yard using block method
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Question 997983: Anne and Chuck are putting up a new tent. They decide to follow the manufacturers directions which in order to provide maximum support, calls for a tent rope to be placed at a 45 degree angle to the ground. To the nearest tenth of a foot, how far away from left side of the 6-foot tent wall should the 8-foot rope be placed?
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Question 998077: Please help me solve this equation:Draw the Diagonals from only one vertex to other vertices (Diagonals must not intersect each other)
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Question 998071: Cassie wants to wallpaper her bedroom. She bought enough wallpaper to paper 44m around her room. If the width of her room is 4m larger than half the length, What are the dimensions of her room?
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Question 998059: "The rivers depth is three meters greater than its width. Two times the rivers depth is equal to six meters more than twice its width."
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Question 998026: The point (x,y) which is equidistant from the points (4,-1) and (-2,3). What is x and y ?
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Question 998026: The point (x,y) which is equidistant from the points (4,-1) and (-2,3). What is x and y ?
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Question 998030: The perimeter of a rectangular field is 92ft. The length is 4 ft. More than twice the width. Find the length and the width

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Question 998224: How do I find the measure of an angle and its complement?
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Question 998202: Anne is standing on a straight road and wants to reach her helicopter which is located 2 miles down the road for her and a mile off the road in a field. she can run 5 miles an hour on the road and 3 miles per hour in the field. she plans to run down the road, then cut diagonally across the field to reach the helicopter.
where should she leave the road in order to reach the helicopter in exactly 42 minutes (0.7 hour)
where should she leave the road in order to reach the helicopter as soon as possible.

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Question 998260: The width of a rectangle is � its length. The perimeter of the rectangle becomes 50 cm when the length and width are each increased by 2cm. What is the Area of the rectangle.
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