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Question 1021143: My friend gave me this problem 11x11 = 4
12x12 = 16
13x13 = ?
pls help what is the trick in this kind of problem thanks in advance
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Question 1021210: A rotating search light is modeled by the equation y= 100−x2−−−−−−−√. The light touches a fence modeled by y = x - 2. Approximately what point along the fence is the furthest the light reaches? (x and y are both in feet.)
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Question 1021289: Lead is an important element for the fishing industry. The volume (mL) of a lead weight was determined using the displacement method. If the initial reading in the graduated cylinder was 12.48 mL and the final reading was 32.87 mL, what is the volume of the weight?
Put your answer in two decimal places.
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Question 1021288: Lead is an important element for the fishing industry. The volume (mL) of a lead weight was determined using the displacement method. If the initial reading in the graduated cylinder was 8.95 mL and the final reading was 53.21 mL, what is the volume of the weight?
Put your answer in two decimal places.

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Question 1021349: A 45 foot pipe is cut into three sections. The longest section is 4 times as long as the shortest, and the middle-sized section is 9 feet longer than the shortest. Complete the diagram.
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Question 1021314: A store sells tiles in the shape of a parallelogram. The perimeter of each tile is 33 inches. One side of each tile is 2.5 inches longer than another side. What are the side lengths of the tile?

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Question 1021493: on a blueprint, a wall that is 45 feet long is 6 inches long. how long should a girder appear on the blueprint if the girder is actually 30 feet long?
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Question 1021571: the legs of a right triangle are in the ratio 3:4 and its area is 1014 cm^2. find the length and perimeter
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Question 1021573: a square building is surrounded by a flowerbed 1.25 m wide. if the area of the flowerbed is 46.25m^2, what is the area of the building?
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Question 1021557: The runners train on a square field. The area of the field is 240 square feet. What is the distance diagonally across the field from one corner to the other?
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Question 1021670: Janine made a cylindrical vase in which the sum of the lateral area and area of one base was about 3000 square centimeters. The vase had a height of 50 centimeters. Find the radius of the vase. Explain the method you would use to find the radius.
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Question 1021709: a rectangular picture frame has a perimeter of 58 inches. the height of the frame is 18 inches.what is the width of the frame
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Question 1021942: A square and a triangle have the same area. The base of the triangle is 3 ft. more than the side length of the square. The height of the triangle is 1 ft. less than the base of the triangle. What is the side length of the square? What are the base and height of the triangle?
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Question 1022001: Four squares are stacked in a tower. The bottom square is 12" on a side. The perimeter of each of the squares is half of the one below it. What is the perimeter of the combined figure?
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Question 1021940: In a right triangle, the length of the long leg is 2 inches more than twice the length of the short leg. The hypotenuse is 2 inches less than three times the length of the short leg. What is the length of each side of this triangle?
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Question 1022383: Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for c, if a = 620.01 sq k; b = 10,779.12 sq km

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Question 1022383: Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for c, if a = 620.01 sq k; b = 10,779.12 sq km

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Question 1022400: The largest angle in a triangle is 5 time the measure of the smallest angle. The middle-sized angle is 20 degree greater than twice the measure of the smallest angle. Find the measure of the three angles?

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Question 1022465: A picture frame had a total perimeter p of 4 meters. The height of the frame is 2/3 times its width. Find the dimension of the picture frame.
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Question 1022696: The sun of two numbers is 8 their product is 18.find the numbes
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Question 1022746: steve's photograph is
thrice as long as it is wide. It
mounted so that a border 2cm wide
completely surrounds the
photograph. Find the dimensions of
the photograph if the area of the
border is 200 cm squared
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Question 1022852: 6. I have created a triangular garden such that the largest side is 8m less than twice the smallest
and the medium side is 12m larger than the smallest side. If the total perimeter of the garden is
104m, what are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 1022959: Mary wants to re-size a table cover that measures 120 centimeters by 90 centimeters by a factor of 0.5.
Which of the following represents the measurement of the shorter side of the new table cover?
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Question 1022951: You Have A Bag That Holds 29 Pieces Of Candy: 13 Cherry, 13 Cream Soda, And 3 Apple. You Pull Out One Piece, Find The Probability That The Piece You Pulled Out Is NOT Apple Flavored
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Question 1023084: The area of a triangular piece of Stainglass is 50 cm�. If the height of the triangle is four times the base how long are the height and base of the piece of stained glass?
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Question 1023208: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 12 feet. Find the length of the ladder if the length is 44 feet more than its distance from the wall.
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Question 1023135: Two angles are complementary. The smaller angle is 15�less than one-half the measure of the larger angle. What are the measure of the angles?
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Question 1023300: in the question: an open box with a square Base is to be made out of given iron sheet of area 27 square metre. show that the maximum volume of the box is 13.5 cubic meters.? the surface is equals to the x^2 + 4xy.why?
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Question 1023356: A factory floor has 777 square meters. If its width is 24 meters, find the length. I need help with this problem
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Question 1023356: A factory floor has 777 square meters. If its width is 24 meters, find the length. I need help with this problem
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Question 1023332: To meet building codes, a building must have a roof no taller than 74 feet. An architect is designing a museum with a 14 1/2 foot ground floor, and 12 foot 3 inch upper floors (including supports).How many floors, including the ground floor, can the building have?
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Question 1023437: I'm standing and see a figure at 1ft high the figure is actually a man who is 6ft tall what's their distance between us?
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Question 1023430: Matt wants to build a platform for a play his school is having. He made the scale drawing below using a scale of 2.5 in. = 2 ft. Enter the length, in feet, Matt must use for the platform
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Question 1023522: you want to find the length of your back yard. you know that the year is square and has an area of 870 square feet. what is the approximate length of the back yard
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Question 1023525: A triangular sign in a store window has a perimeter of 5.5 feet to the sides of the triangle are are the same length while the third side is 1 foot longer than those sides find the length of the sides of the sign
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Question 1023593: The base of an isosceles triangle is 3cm less than the length of the equal sides. If the perimeter of the triangle is 36cn, find the length of each of the sides.
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Question 1023681: Joe wants to wallpaper the four walls of his bedroom. The room is rectangular and measures 10 feet by 14 feet. The ceiling is 9 feet high. A roll of wallpaper at the store is 2 feet wide and 40 feet long. How many rolls should he buy? Wallpaper is hung ceiling to floor ignore doors and windows.
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Question 1023683: How many sets of congruent triangles are there when you draw all diagonals of a regular pentagon and how do you know they are congruent?
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Question 1023745: I am building a freestanding garden using railway tiles as my border. The railway ties measure 1 m in length, and I have 18 ties. What is the biggest garden that I can build? Provide a sketch and justify your answer
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Question 1023783: Max is installing a 12 ft swimming pool slide at a 50� angle of elevation. The bottom of the slide will be 1 ft off the ground and the top of the slide will be fixed to a platform. Find the height of the platform. (round to nearest tenth)
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Question 1023785: Max is installing a 12 ft swimming pool slide at a 50� angle of elevation. The bottom of the slide will be 1 ft off the ground and the top of the slide will be fixed to a platform. Find the height of the platform. (round to nearest tenth)
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Question 1023799: 1) Anna leans a 53-ft ladder against the wall. The base of the ladder is 45 ft. from the wall. Sketch the situation and find the height of the wall. Show your work. (1 mark for the sketch, 1 mark for the work and 1 mark for the correct answer)
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Question 1023870: The base of a right pyramid is a square of a side 24cm and it's height is 16cm
find the Lateral Area and Volume
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