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Question 1000763: ABCD is a rectangle such that AD=2AB. If AC=√5d, find the area of ABCD in terms of d.
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Question 1000813: A pool is 20 x 12. You have a 144 feet of fencing. How many feet away from the pool must the fence be to have all 4 sides equal distance from the pool?
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Question 1000788: On a certain hot summers day , 376 people used the public swimming pool . The daily prices are $1.50 for children and $2.00 for adults. The receipts for admission totaled $636.00. How many children and how many adults swam at the public pool that day?

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Question 1000878: Suppose you want to enclose a rectangular backyard that is adjacent to the ocean. The backyard area must contain 12000 sq ft. No fencing along the ocean. What dimensions will use the least amount of fencing?
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Question 1000879: Suppose you want to make a closed box with a square base. The material for the top and the bottom of the box costs $2 per sq in and the material for the sides costs $3 per sq in. What are the dimensions of the box of the greatest volume that can be constructed for $60?
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Question 1000836: A section of boardwalk is made using 15 boards. Each board is 9 1/4 inches wide. The total width of the section is 144 inches. The spacing between each board is equal. What is the spacing between each board?
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Question 1000828: from 75m roll of ribbon ,threepieces of ribbon measuring 21 m 75 cm,37m 22cm and 7m 7cm are cut off . find the length of the left out ribbon
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Question 1001097: Find the length of a diagonal, Round to nearest hunreth.
Length = 3
Width = 1
Hieght=2
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Question 1001109: The area of a rectangle is 130 squared feet, the length is 3 times the width, find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 1001165: what is the length of the longest stick which can fit in the bottom of a rectangular box if its base is 25 inches long and 10 inches wide
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Question 1001394: Draw and solve question
A section of a boardwalk is made using 15 boards. Each board is 9 1/4 inches wide. The total width of the section is 144inches. The spacing between each board is equal. What is the width of the spacing between each board?
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Question 1001532: At the rate of $2.00 per square foot, the cost of painting the rectangular board with a semicircular top shown in the figure is $? https://cdn.ple.platoweb.com/EdAssets/daafede997084de398a149eb09a23f86?ts=635406320520770000
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Question 1001576: Two seniors,one from each government class are randomly selected to travel to Washington D.C. Wes is in a class of 18 students and Maureen is in a class of 20 students. Find the probability that both Wes and Maureen will be selected.
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Question 1001512: A square poster has sides measuring 2 feet less than the sides of a square sign if the difference between their areas is 12 square feet find the lengths of the sides of the poster and sign
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Question 1001693: the jogging lane of a park is a square with side length 50meters. How many complete rounds must a jogger go round the square to make sure he has run 2 kilometers ?
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Question 1001692: the area of a lot is 432 m2 , if the width is 18 m , what is the length ?
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Question 1001670: If im buying carpet n im paying $0.74 a square foot how much would it cost for 13 by 13
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Question 1001869: The width of a rectangle is 5 inches less than its length. If the area of the rectangle is 266 square inches, what is its widthH?
10 in
19 in
37 in
14 in
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Question 1001870: The total height of a building and the flagpole on the roff is 240 feet. The building is 9 times as high as the flagpole. How high is the flagpole?
24 ft
192 ft
216 ft
264 ft
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Question 1001864: The sum of two negative numbers is -64. Their product is 1015. What is the larger of the numbers?
One of the following:
-35
-29
-30
-20

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Question 1001866: The permitter of a rectangular concrete slab is 72 feet and its area is 308 square feet. What is the length of the longer side of the slab?
23 ft
25 ft
22 ft
24 ft
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Question 1001865: The length of a rectangle is 4 inches more than its width. If the area of the rectangle is 285 square inches, what is its length?
19 in
41 in
8 in
15 in
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Question 1001910: If |P| = 10, |Q| = 12, and |P ∪Q| = 15, what is |P ∩Q|?pls help with a little explanation.thanks in advance and more power.
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Question 1001963: The combined land area of the countries A & B is 186,973 square kilometers. Country A is larger by 773 square kilometers. Determine the land area of each country.
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Question 1002027: boris has a rock garden in the shape trapezoid. The garden has an area of 90m2 and a depth of 12m. The front width is 4 times the length of the back width. Without changing the front and back widths, by how much must Boris increase the depth of his garden to triple the area?
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Question 1001985: A wire that weights 10 ounces per meter is stretched from point d to point b. Another wire is stretched from point b to point a that weights 6 ounces per meter. If you know that teetotal weight of the two wires is 260 ounces, how far is it from point b to point c?
ONLY ANSWERS CAN BE:
17 or 17.35 m
17 m
16 or 3.5 m
17.35 m
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Question 1002053: 22 square meter Area path . It's width is 6.5 foot. then what is the length of it in Meter ??
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Question 1002300: If mr. Santos built a house with floor area of 792 sqm
On a 35m x 26m lot. How much is
Left for gardening? Pls help, thanks
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Question 1002336: A rectangular parking lot must have a perimeter of 440 feet and an area of at least 8000 square feet. Describe the possible lengths of the parking lot.
1.Let_________ represent the length.
Let _________ represent the width.
2. Write an equation for the perimeter:_________________________________
3.Write an inequality for the area:______________________________________
4.Use the equation for the perimeter to solve for the length:_____________________________
5.Substitute this expression into the area inequality (so that this inequality has only one variable): _____________________________________
6.Solve the inequality from part 5. Your answer should be a range of values that
represent the dimensions of the rectangular parking lot.

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Question 1002369: The Cummings family wants to build a fence around their yard. If their yard is 182 m by 234 m, how many meters of fencing will they need?

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Question 1002386: Find the center and radius of the circle with the given equation.
x^2+y^2-8y=9
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Question 1002386: Find the center and radius of the circle with the given equation.
x^2+y^2-8y=9
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Question 1002494: Using the area formula, A=LW and having a perimeter of 60 inches, write a function that best describes A, the area of the rectangle in terms of L, the length of the rectangle.
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Question 1002520: Length of rectangle is 120 inches more than the width and the perimeter is 892 inches. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 1002476: A man is putting food for fencing around his rectangular backyard that is 53 feet wide. he uses 190 feet of fencing to enclose his backyard. What is the length of the backyard?
Jane is replacing carpet. She bought 143 square ft of carpet. If the length of carpet is 13 feet what is the width?
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Question 1002603: is it possible to sketch a hexagon with two sides perpendicular?

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Question 1002535: john needs to replace the boards on a 22-foot section of his fence .he plans to place the boards as shown below if the boards are 5 inches wide ,how many boards should he buy to cover the distance
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Question 1002664: What are the dimensions of a rectangular shaped loading platform with an area of 250 m squared if the length is 2 more than twice the width?
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Question 1002730: The volume of wood v in a tree varies jointly as h and square of the girth g. If the volume big a redwood tree is 216 m^3 when the height is 30 m and the girth is 1.5 m, what is the height of tree whose volume is 960 m^3 and whose girth is 2 m
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Question 1002920: Please help me solve this.
simutaneous equations
3x - 2y=12,
X+3y=-7
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Question 1002919: Please help me solve this
Find the value of x when y= -5
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Question 1003134: The consecutive sides of a rectangle are (x+11) units and (3x+8) units, and the perimeter is 70 units. Find the measure of its diagonal.
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Question 1003191: If Jose's pasture field in problem 3 has a scale drawing of 1/2 inch equals 12 chains, how many acres are in the field?
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Question 1003455: A half of an hour before a concert, there were 1200 people in the 3000�seat auditorium where the concert was being held. Five minutes before the concert, the auditorium was 90% full. Which of these equations can be used to determine p, the number of people who entered the auditorium during this time interval?
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