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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 1011257: An isosceles triangle has a base angle of 30 degrees. Find the vertical angle.
If possible, please explain this question with a diagram. If possible! Thanks!
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Question 1011409: A Quiz!
A Farmer Plants a Tree in a Square Plot of Land and
finds that it is 100 m and 140 m from two opposite
corners and 60 m from the 3rd corner.
What is the area of the plot?
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Question 1011554: how many squares of 10cm side can be made from rectangle sheet of 84cm�23cm? find the area of a rectangle sheet and its percentage?
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Question 1011699: 1) How many cubic centimeters of water must be evaporated from 32 cubic centimeters of 4% solution of salt and water to make a solution that is 16% salt?
2) How much pure silver must be added to 80 grams of fine silver (an alloy of 90% silver) to obtain a sterling silver (an alloy that is 92.5% silver)?
3) A solution of water and alcohol is 80% alcohol. How much alcohol must be added to 50 gallons of this solution to make it 90% alcohol?
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Question 1012077: At what point does the line joining the points(2,4)and(3,7) cuts the y axis?
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Question 1012094: The clock reads 8:00. How many degrees are the minute hand and hour hand separated?
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Question 1012197: A parabola whose axis is parallel to the x-axis passes through(0, 4), (0, -1) and (6, 1). Find the equation and construct the parabola.
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Question 1012206: theorem 6. the median of a trapezoid to each base and its lenght is one half the sum of the lenghts of the bases
to prove the theorem .
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Question 1012208:

Joe is trying to determine the shortest route he can take to get back home. He is currently at point A and can only travel the boundary lines to get to point D. He knows that segment AD bisects ∠ A.
Which route is shortest and by how much?
A) Either way the routes are the same distance.
B) Going from A to B to D and it is shorter by 2 miles.
C) Going from A to C to D and it is shorter by 3 miles.
D) Going from A to B to D and it is shorter by 3 miles.
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Question 1012198: A searchlight has a parabolic reflector that forms a �bowl� which is 12 inches wide from rim to rim and 8 inches deep. If the filament of the light bulb is located at the focus, how far from the vertex of the reflector is it?
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Question 1012246: the area of a square field is twice that of a rectangular field if the rectangular field is 169 metres long and 50 metres wide find the length of the square field

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Question 1012199: A parkway 20 meters wide is spanned by a parabolic arc 30 meters long along the horizontal. If the parkway is centered, how high must the vertex of the arch be in order to give a minimum clearance of 5 meters over the parkway?
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Question 1012306: The legnth of a rectangle is 2u+3 the width is 4u-18 the perimeter is 114 feet. What is the value of U?
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Question 1012340: The Scale Model Of A Building Is 5.4 Feet Tall. If The Original Building Is 810 Meters Tall, What Was The Scale Used To Make The Model? If The Model Is Made Out Of Tiny Bricks Each Measuring 0.4 Inch In Height, How Many Bricks Tall Is The Model?
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Question 1010342: A rectangle with a length of 8 has the same area as a trapezoid. One base of the trapezoid is 3 and the other base is three times the height of the rectangle. The height of the trapezoid is two thirds of the height of the rectangle. find the area of each of the two figures.
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Question 1012564: if you had two slices of pizza oneis 33 degrees and the other is 38 degrees angle and you put the two together what would the angle be?
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Question 1012561: a pool measuring 18 meters by 22 meters is surrounded by a path of uniform width. if the area of the pool and the path combined 1152 square meters, what is the width of the path
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Question 1012580: Assume that the flask shown in the diagram can be modeled as a combination of a sphere and a cylinder. Based on this assumption, the volume of the flask is cubic inches. If both the sphere and the cylinder are dilated by a scale factor of 2, the resulting volume would be times the original volume.
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Question 1012850: One side rhombus is 12 cm & one of its angle is 90degrees find area of rhombus
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Question 1012874: The area of circle B is 121 times greater than the area of circle A. The radius of circle B is 44. What is the radius of circle A?

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Question 1012895: The measure of one angle, A, of a triangle is 12� more than that of a second angle, B. The third angle, C, is 25� larger than B. One of the three required equations is A + B + C = 180. [Omit units.] Complete the other two equations required to solve for these three angles. Do not simplify or solve these equations.
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Question 1012875: You were told by your teacher to makeva sketch of a rectangular garden such that is perimeter is at 19cm of the difference of length and width least 5m

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Question 1012917: two 7x7 squares overlap forming a 7x11 rectangle. what is the area of the region in which the squares overlap?

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Question 1012931: A class of 30 students took two quizzes. 16 passed the first quiz and 20 passed the second. if four students failed both quizzes, how many passed both?
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Question 1012935: John made a decoration for the town fiesta. He made an equilateral triangular wire frame and tied ribbons on the frame 2 decimeter apart. If there were 18 ribbons in all, what was the perimeter of the frame?
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Question 1012926: 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 1012930: diagram of the adjacent picture frame has outer dimensions28cm*24cm and inner dimensions 20cm*16 cm. find the area of shaded partof frame,if width of each section is the same
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Question 1012927: Triangle ABC is right-angled at C with AB = 48 and AC= 64.The perpendicular bisector of BC meets AC at E. What is the length of AE?
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Question 1013127: The Hieght of of a picture frame is 2ft ,and its length is 5ft. If the dimensions of the picture frame are doubled ,what is the ratio of areas of the new and old picture frames?
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Question 1013060: U were told by your teacher to make a sketch of a rectangular garden such that its perimeter is at most 19m and the dicference between its lenght and its width is at least 5m . Write a systeM of linear inequalities to model the given solution . Sketch the rectangular garden
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Question 1013403: a room has a length of 5m and breadth of 4m. cost of laying carpet is rs. 800 per sq m. find the cost for putting the carpet for the entire room.
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Question 1013493: how might you determine the number of sides for a polygon whose interior angle sum is 3240
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Question 1013702: Originally a rectangle is three times as long as it was wide. when 2 centimeters squared We're subtracted from the length and five to me as were added to the with the resulting rectangle had an area of 90 cm� find the dimensions of the new rectangle
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Question 1013770: A boy flying a kite has 100 feet of string out when the kite lodges in a tree. He reels in 20 feet of the string as he walks 25 feet closer to the tree. How high in the tree is his kite stuck?
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Question 1013771: woody woodpecker pecked at a 17 meter wooden pole until it cracked and the upper part fell with the top hitting the ground 10m from the foot of the pole. since the upper part had not completely broken off, woody pecked away where the pole had cracked. how far was woody above the ground?
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Question 1013779: You want to fill cone-shaped bags with treats. Each bag has a diameter of 12 centimeters and a height of 15.5 centimeters. What is the volume of each bag? Use 3.14 for pi. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Question 1013827: Man who is 165cm tall cast a shadow of 370cm length if at the same time the shadow of the tree is 620 cm in length how tall is the tree?
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