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Question 1009007: the area of a rectangle is 6 times the area of a square if the rectangle is 22 inches long and the width of the rectangle is the same as the length of a side of the square find the length of a side of the square
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Question 1009323:
please help me solve this
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Question 1009326: 9x^2+9y^2-12x-6y-31=0 Transform the equation to standard form, then give the coordinates of the center and the radius.
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Question 1009475: A builder uses squares to lay out various projects. Write two equations. The first equation should express the area of the square (a) as a function of the length (l) of a side. The second should express the volume (v) as a function of the length (s) of a side.

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Question 1009486: the average of two fractions is 7/8 and one fraction is 3/2.what is the other fraction.pls help on how to do this that could be understand by a grade 5 pupil.thanks and more power.
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Question 1009497: you measure a piece of rope and find its length to be 12m. Find the percent error of this measurement. Round to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1009391: the width of a brick is half the length, and the length is 2 inches less than 4 times the height. if the sum of the three dimensions is 28.5 inches, find the volume of the brick.
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Question 1009648: Find the unit rate of a 13-oz bottle of orange juice that sells for $1.39.
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Question 1009656: How much newspaper will it take to cover a cube whose side length is 11 inches?
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Question 1009662: The rectangle shown has A perimeter of 34 cm and the given area which is a=52cm squared.its length is 5 more than twice its width.write and solve a system of equations to Find The Dimensions of the rectangle

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Question 1009741: A rectangle has a length of 11 inches less than 3 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 592 square inches, find the length of the rectangle.
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Question 1009661: The measure of one acute angle in a right triangle is four times the measure of the other acute angle.write and solve a system of equations to find the measure of the acute angles
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Question 1009651: Find the percent of error for the measurement 8 cm.
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Question 1009747: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is four times the length of one of the legs. The length of the other leg is 1215−−−−√ feet. Find the lengths of the leg and hypotenuse.
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Question 1009652: Find the minimum and maximum possible areas for a rectangle measured as 4m x 7m.
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Question 1009802: Cassie and Carrie start at the park and walk home separately. Cassie walks 1.5 miles east to her house and Carrie walks south 2 miles to hers. How far apart (in miles) are Cassie�s and Carrie�s houses from each other?
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Question 1009820: A construction crew has just finished building a road. The crew worked for
5 5/6 days. If the road is 14
kilometers long, how many kilometers of road did they build each day? (Assume they built the same amount each day.)
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Question 1009817: Find the Diagnol Whoes Sides Are 40cm and 30cm
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Question 1009872: A pilot flew a jet from City A to City B, a distance of 2200 mi. On the return trip, the average speed was 20% faster than the outbound speed. The round-trip took 8 h 20 min. What was the speed from City A to City B?
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Question 1010066: From each corner of a square piece of sheet metal, remove a square of side 9 centimeters. Turn up the edges to form an open box. If the box is to hold 144 cubic centimeters, what should be the dimensions of the piece of sheet metal?
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Question 1010091: The diagonal of a rectangle measures 10 inches. If the length is 2 inches more than the width, find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 1010131: The perimeter of the cover of a math textbook is 34 inches.if the width of the cover is 7 inches, what is the length of the cover?
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Question 1010237: Two angles that are suplementary differ by 27 degrees. Find the measure of the smaller of the two angles.
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Question 1010518: What is the grade of a slope with a rise of 400 feet and a run of 2400 feet? To the nearest tenth the grade will be
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Question 1010518: What is the grade of a slope with a rise of 400 feet and a run of 2400 feet? To the nearest tenth the grade will be
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Question 1010558: You are building a half pipe in the snow the length will be 60 meters and the width will be 8 meters how much snow will uou have to remvove?
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Question 1010556: The length of the diagonal across the front of the rectangle box is 25 inches and the length of the diagonal across the front of the rectangle box is 18 inches.The length of the three-dimensional diagnol of the box is 32 inches . What is the length of the diagnol across the top of the box?
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Question 1010553: The length of the diagonal across the front of the rectangle or box is 25 diagonal across the front of the rectangle or box is 25, inches The length of the diagonal across the side of the box is 18. The length of the three-dimensional diagnol of the box is 32 inches . What is the length of the diagnol across the top of the box?
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Question 1010623: A rectangular garden plot is surrounded by 20 meters of fence. Find the length and the
width of the garden plot if its area is 24 square meters.
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Question 1010651: It is on the line having slope 2 and containing the point (3,-2)
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Question 1008766: A rectangle is 8 inches longer than it is wide. Find the dimensions of the rectangle if its area is 261 sq-inches.
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Question 1010705: You are cutting boards as part of your training at a lumber yard. The length of a board must be 25 inches with an absolute deviation of at most 0.5 inch.
Write an inequality to find the possible lengths (in inches) of each board.

B.) What are the possible lengths of the boards you can cut?

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Question 1010752: An electrician needs 4 3/4 rolls of electrical wire to wire each room in a house. How many rooms can he wire with 9 1/2 rolls of wire?
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Question 1010768: The volume V of a rectangular container is 84 cubic feet. The width is one foot less than the length. The height is 4 feet less than the width. What are the dimensions of the container?
So far:
V=84 ft^3
w=l-1
h=w-4
l=w+1
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Question 1010779: The length of a rectangle is 2.1cm more than 4 times the width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 70.2cm, what are its dimensions?

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Question 1011021: a rectangular piece of cardboard, whose area is 242 square centimeters,is made into an open box by cutting a 2-centimeter square from each corner and turning up the sides. if the box is to have a volume of 252 cubic centimeters, what size
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Question 1011114: I need help on setting up a question. It says a rope is stretched from the bottom of one pole to the top of the other pole. One pole is 8 feet tall and the other one is 24 feet tall, and I need to find how far above the ground in which the ropes touch. I know that I need to set up a proportion, but I do not know enough information to set one up.
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Question 1011119: leela walks 8meter west and 15meter north to reach the opposite corner of a rectangular field.lovely walked from the same point diagonally to the opposite corner.who walked more and by how much.

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Question 1011141: A garden in form of a square is surrounded by a path which is 1m wide on two opposite sides and 1/2m wide on the other two opposite sides.if the area of the path is 17m^2.Calculate the perimeter of the garden and the area of the space covered by the garden and the paths
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Question 1010999: Find a parametric representation of the surface x^2+y^2+z^2=9
Show all your work/solution step by step.
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Question 1011166: A regular polygon's interior angle is 8 times as large as its exterior angle
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Question 1011166: A regular polygon's interior angle is 8 times as large as its exterior angle
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