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Question 1016194: A landscaper who just completed a rectangular flower garden measuring 6ft by 10ft orders 1 cubic yard of premixed cement all of which is to be used to create a border of uniform width around the garden. if the border is to have a depth of 3 inches how wide will the border be? 1 cubic yd = 27 cubic feet.
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Question 1016323: Point q is between P and R. S is between Q and R and R is between Q and T. PT=34, QR= 8 and PQ=SQ=SR. What is the length of line segment RT?
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Question 1016287: a triangle has a perimeter of 84 centimeters. Each of the tow longer sides of the triangle is three times as long as the shortest side. find the length of each side of the triangle

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Question 1016511: a triangle swimming pool with base length of 10 m and attitude of 12m was reduced in suze to dorm a baby swimming piil whose area is 10m^2. Find the scale factor that used to reduce the swimming pool
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Search: One Rectangle having Parameter of 36 Decimeter.Rectangles Length and Width is twice time increase to 3 decimeter.find the length and width of a triangle
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Question 1016646: A square with side length 5.5 mm is increased by a factor of 11. What will be the perimeter of the square after dilation?
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Question 1016621: A blueprint of a house has a scale in which 1 inch represents 4 and one half (4 1/2) feet. If a living room wall measures 6 and one fourth (6 1/4)
inches on the drawing, what is the actual length of the wall?
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Question 1016737: The singles court in badminton is 27 feet longer than it is wide.If its perimeter is 122 feet, what are the length and the width.
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Question 1016800: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet less than twice its width and the perimeter is 72 feet. Find the length and the width of the rectangle
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Question 1016807: Area of a hall is 837 sq ft, it's length is 4ft greater than its width. Find the dimensions of the hall.
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Question 1016790: a patio is configured from a rectangle with two right triangles of equal size attached at the two ends.The length of the rectangle is 38 ft. The base of the right triangle is 4 ft less than the height of the triangle. If the total area of the patio is 1155 ft^2 determine the base and height of the triangular portions
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Question 1016900: The area of rhombus is 1080 Sq. m and one of its digital is 72 m What is the perimeter of the rhombus ?
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Question 1017003: One side of a triangle is 2 meters shorter than the base and the other side is 3 meters longer than half the base. If the perimeter is 15 meters find the length of each side.
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Question 1017016: find the difference in height between a measures 124cm and her mother,who is 1m 72cm tall
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Question 1017002: A farmer bought a rectangular piece of land 1 1/3 mides wide by 2 1/5 miles long. What is the perimeter of the property in miles?
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Question 1017002: A farmer bought a rectangular piece of land 1 1/3 mides wide by 2 1/5 miles long. What is the perimeter of the property in miles?
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Question 1017323: A 22 foot by 28 foot rectangular swimming pool is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the total area of the walkway is 216 squared, how wide is the walkway?
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Question 1017389: An ice rink is in the shape of a rectangle with semicircular ends. The straight
sides are 60m long and 30m apart. It is to be filled to a depth of 10cm with
ice. Calculate how many cubic metres of ice will be needed.

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Question 1017260: the area of the rectangular ice-skating rink is 900 square yards.
If the length of the rink is 100 yard, what is the width of the rink?
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Question 1017574: A teacher's table is to be constructed such that the width is 3/5 of the length. If the perimeter is 72 inches find the area of the rectangle

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Question 1017264: the area of a rectangle wall of a barn is 168 squate feet. its lenght is 10 feet longer than twice its width. find the lenght and width of the wall of the barn.
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Question 1017591: Please help me solve 10√8
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Question 1017623: On the blueprint of a house, 39 millimeters represents 6 meters. Then length of the living room is 52 millimeters on the blue print. What is the actual length of the living room.

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Question 1017696: Joey wanted to put up a car park measuring 3m by 3m in a corner of his square lot. He found out that it would leave him 112 sq m for the rest of the lot. What were the dimension of his lot?
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Question 1017710: My book is 88 square inches what are the length and wide measurements of the book
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Question 1017709: The area of my poster is 6 square feet what is the length and width of my poster
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Question 1017738: One side of a triangle is 2 meters shorter than the base, and the other side is 3 meters longer than half the base. If the perimeter is 15 meters, find the length of each side

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Question 1017827: A rectangular garden measures
20ft by 36ft. Surrounding (and bordering) the garden is a path 4ft wide. Find the area of this path. Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.
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Question 1017861: Larry is going camping and his tent is the shape of a triangular prism with isosceles bases. The floor of the tent is 8 feet by 5 feet and the angled side is 6.5 feet long. Is 6 feet an accurate height for this tent?
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Question 1017894: I've been trying to figure this out, but I am not really good at this type of math problems.
a shipping container is 48 feet long, 9ft 6in tall, 8ft 6in wide whats the volume of the container in cubic feet? what is the size door to the container in squear feet? Find the cubic meter/square meter. A super tanker can carry total of 359,000cubic meter of oil. if the supertanker were to be filled with the shipping container how many container can it carry?
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Question 1017942: Jeremy has a skateboard ramp sent 30� from the ground if the height of the platform is 8 feet from the ground how long is the ramp up to the top of the platform?
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Question 1018107: A rectangular field measures 325 meters by 240 meters. How much shorter would it be to walk diagonally across the field than to walk around two sides of the field. Round your answer to the nearest meter.
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Question 1018139: Martin needs 60 meters of fence to go around a rectangular garden. The length l of the garden is twice its width w. Three of these equations give the correct value for w. Which equation does NOT?
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Question 1018156: The dimensions of a door are 3 ft wide by 7 ft 6 in high. If the same amount is added to each dimension of the door, the area is increased by 49 ft2. Find the dimensions of the new door. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
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Question 1018209: the perimeter of a piece of cardboard is 34 inches. squares measuring 2 inches on a side are cut from each corner so that when sides are folded up, the diagonal of the resulting box has length 7 inches. what are the original dimensions of the cardboard?
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Question 1018544: The area of a kite is 384 square feet. One diagonal is three times as long as the other diagonal. Find the lengths of each diagonal.
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Question 1018628: How to find the area lenght and width 8 1/2 times 3 2/5
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Question 1018640: The area of a rectangle is 36 and its perimeter is 26. Find its dimensions and diagonal.
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Question 1017618: Rent-it-Right rents compact cars for $38 plus $0.15 per mile. Lucia rented a car for 3 days and was charged $150. How many miles did she drive?
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Question 1018838: Jamie wants to wrap a rectangular sheet of paper completely around casts that are 8 1/2inch high and 4inch in diameter. She can buy a roll of paper that is 8 1/2 inch wide and 60 ft.lonh. How many cans will this much paper wrap
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