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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 1023953: Gerold is Designing a garden in the shape of a regular hexagon with each side measuring 4 m long. The gardener will be divided into six equal lateral triangle with a different type of flower planting in each triangle what is the approximate total area of the garden
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Question 1024121: A 32-inch board is to be cut into three pieces so that the second piece is three times as long as the first piece and the third piece is 44 times as long as the first piece. If x represents the length of the first piece, find the lengths of all three pieces.
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Question 1024229: Farmer Ed has 900900 meters of fencing, and wants to enclose a rectangular plot that borders on a river. If Farmer Ed does not fence the side along the river, find the length and width of the plot that will maximize the area. What is the largest area that can be enclosed?
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Question 1024779: A building in the shape of a regular octagon with sides of length 10 feet is in the middle of a grassy field. A goat on a 12 foot chain is chained to vertex G. How much grass (in square feet) does the goat have to eat?
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Question 1025622: A square stained glass window has a green glass circle in the center. The length of the window is 40y feet and the area of the circle is 100piy^2 feet. What is the area of the glass surrounding the circle?
What I tried:
Do you use the 40y feet and add it with the number of sides there are (4) for the perimeter? And then subtract it from the area given? What do you do with pi leave as is?
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Question 1025624: A circular brick path is being installed around a circular pond. The pond has a circumference of 68π feet. The outer edge of the path is going to be 4 feet from the pond all the way around? What is the area of the path?
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Question 1025762: A board 8 feet long is to be used as a temporary brace for a section of fence that has a broken post. If the board is nailed to the fence 6 feet above ground level, about how far from the base of the fence is the other end of the board when it is fastened to a stake in the ground?
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Question 1025946: Sorry, tried to put the shape in, couldn’t work, only let print the words.
The star shape has 8 lines of symmetry and is made by overlapping two squares.
(couldn’t put the shape into here)______________________
The shape can be split into 8 identical quadrilaterals that look like this:
(couldn’t put the shape into here)_____________________
What is the size of the largest angle in the quadrilateral, in degrees?
Teacher gave the answer: 225 , but couldn’t work it out the way. Thanks!
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Question 1026223: Soil contractor Frank was given the following dimensions over the telephone. The triangular garden plot ABC has an angle CAB measuring 44 degrees, AC is 8m long and BC is 6m long. Soil to a depth of 10cm is required.
I) Explain why Frank needs extra information from his client.
ii) What is the maximum volume of soil needed if his client is unable to supply the necessary information?
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Question 1026216: The athletic department at pi high school is planning a circular track for 440 yards long the area inside the track will be planted with Sod about how many square yards of sod will be needed round answer to the nearest 100 yd.²
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Question 1026186: You want to manufacture soup cans in the shape of a cylinder. Each can will have a volume of 1099 cubic centimeters. You want to choose the dimensions so that the surface area is minimized. What dimensions should you choose for the cans?
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Question 1026340: This monument in the shape of a square pyramid was built in a park.
The height of the pyramid is 20ft. The base length of the pyramid is 24ft.
The four lateral faces of the pyramid will be painted. Both paint types will be used on the monument.
The cost per gallon of the regular paint is $35. The Paint coverage (square feet per gallon) is 200 for the regular paint.
The cost per gallon of the metallic paint is $100. The Paint coverage (square feet per gallon) is 80 for the metallic paint.
The regular paint will require 2 coats, and the metallic paint will require 1 coat. Both paint types are sold only by the gallon. What is the least amount of money that should be budgeted to paint the monument?
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Question 1026512: in order to qualify for a role in a play, an actor must be taller than 64 inches but shorter than 68 inches. The inequality 64 < x < 68, where x represents height, can be used to represent the height range. Which is another way of writing the inequality?
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Question 1026860: A rectangular piece of paper has a width that is 3 inches less than its length. It is cut in half along a diagonal to create two congruent right triangles with areas of 44 square inches. Which statements are true?
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Question 1026970: A builder Needs to lay a concrete path around the outside of an 18m by 15m rectangular area of grass.if the width of the path must be 1m and the concrete must have a depth of 10cm, calculate the amount of the concrete needed by the builder correct to one decimal.
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Question 1026970: A builder Needs to lay a concrete path around the outside of an 18m by 15m rectangular area of grass.if the width of the path must be 1m and the concrete must have a depth of 10cm, calculate the amount of the concrete needed by the builder correct to one decimal.
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