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Question 1026996: A photocopier increases the sides of a square in the ratio 2:3. What percentage increase is this?
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Question 1027125: A freight train covered 120 miles at a certain speed. Had the train been able to travel 10 mph faster, the trip would have been 2 hours shorter. How fast did the train go?

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Question 1027141: A straight, tight wire is stretched from the top of a vertical pole to a point on the ground which is 9 ft away from the base of the pole. If the wire is 13 ft in length, what is the exact height of the pole?
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Question 1027140: In a right triangle, the long leg is three times the length of the short leg. The hypotenuse is the square of the short leg. Find the exact perimeter and area of this triangle.
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Question 1027304: A CARPENTER DESIGNED A DECK THAT WILL BE SHAPED LIKE A TRAPAZOID WHEN BUILT THE BASES OF THE DECK ARE 4 meters and 6 meters,and the height is 4.5 meters. What is the area of this deck?
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Question 1027330: how may rectangular prism's can you make?
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Question 1027351: Steve takes a sheet of paper and makes a diagonal cut from one corner to the opposite corner, making two triangles. The cut he makes is 75 inches long and the width of the paper is 21 inches. What is the paper's length?
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Question 1027390: A garden is made up ov two squares and a quarter circle. What are the perimiter and area of the garden
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Question 1027359: Sara wants to buy wood to make a frame for her picture. Her picture is a 12 by 10 rectangle. What is the total length of the wood strips she will need for her project?
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Question 1027452: Which equation describes this story problem?

A pink ribbon measures 13 inches long. A red ribbon is 6 times as long as the pink ribbon. How long is the red ribbon?

Use R to represent the length of the red ribbon.

A.
13 � 6 = R

B.
13 � 13 = R

C.
6 � R = 13

D.
13 � 13 � 13 � 13 � 13 � 13 = R

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Question 1027518: A trench 5m�16m and 0.75m deep is dug. The earth taken out is spread uniformly to form a layer 12.5cm deep and 4m wide. What is the length of the layer?
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Question 1027406: a lawn in the shape of a trapezoid with a heigh of 60 feet and bases of 30 and 170 feet.how many bags of fertilizer must be purchased to cover the lawn if each bag covers 2400square feet
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Question 1025147: mrs.cooke's office is section into two parts the section where her desk is and meeting section is.The area of the meeting section is 81square feet.What is the area of the desk section?

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Question 1027898: Write a problem that involves finding the unknown measure of a side of a rectangle. Include the solution..
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Question 1028050: A regular hexagon is to be cut out of a circular sheet of metal that has a radius of 6 inches. Approximately how many square centimeters of sheet metal will be left over as scraps?
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Question 1028074: mary knows that the peimeter of a square is 12 inches. she knows that three of the sides are 3 inches lomg. Hoe long is the 4th side?
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Question 1028069: You have made a rectangular quilt that measures 4 feet by 5 feet. You have 10 square feet of fabric left, and decide to use it to add a border of uniform width around the quilt. What is the width of the border? Explain your answer.
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Question 1028070: The equation h=0.019s2 is used to model the height in feet of a wave when the wind speed is s knots. Compare the wind speeds needed to generate 5 foot waves and 15 foot waves. Show your work.
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Question 1028071: Level 3: The area of a rectangular room is 750 square feet. The width of the room is 5 feet less than the length of the room.
Which equations can be used to solve for y, the length of the room? Check all that apply.

750 � y(y � 5) = 0

y(y + 5) = 750

y(y � 5) + 750 = 0

(y + 25)(y � 30) = 0

y2 � 5y = 750

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Question 1028211: WHAT PERCENTAGE OF 4 IS 5?
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Question 1028211: WHAT PERCENTAGE OF 4 IS 5?
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Question 1028219: The radius of a regular pentagon is 7cm. What's the perimeter?
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Question 1028213: In A Mathematics Test, Lola Score 45 Out Of 60 Marks. What Percentage Is This?
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Question 1028213: In A Mathematics Test, Lola Score 45 Out Of 60 Marks. What Percentage Is This?
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Question 1028429: Billy likes to go cycling. His bike has wheels of diameter 85cm. He has invented a counter for his bike, which counts the number of revelations the wheel makes. One day the counter shows 310 revolutions. How far has billy cycled? give your answer to the nearest metre.

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Question 1028481: How log is a string reaching from the top a 12 good pole to a point 7 feet from the base of a pole?hint draw a picture round answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 1028480: Hoy logr� is a string reaching from the top a 12 good pole to a point 7 feet from the base of a pole?hint draw a picture round answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 1028498: Two units of volume are given in Figures a and b. Let R denote a rectangular prism. If the surface area of R is 146 square units using a face of Figure a as the unit of area, what is the surface area of R if a face of Figure b is used as the unit of area?
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Question 1028545: on a vertical wall a certain painting,whose base is 6 feet from the floor,is hanged. From a point on the floor, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the frame are 45 and 30, respectively.Find the vertical dimension of the painting
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Question 1028565: When 200 is increased by 10% the answer is 221 220 is decreased by 10% dancer is 198 why do you not get the answer you started with
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Question 1028570: what is the hypotenuse of a triangle with the sides of 12 and 12?

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Question 1028570: what is the hypotenuse of a triangle with the sides of 12 and 12?

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Question 1028658: Henry has a patio next to his house that is 15 ft by 10 ft. He wants to put a uniform flower bed around three sides of the patio. The area of the flower bed is 100 square feet. What is the width of the flower bed?
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Question 1028687: A circular plot with 720 feet diameter is water by spray irrigation system to the nearest foot what is the area that is watered as a sprinkler rotates through Angle of 50�
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Question 1028860: The length of a rectangle is six times its width.
If the area of the rectangle is
600 m2,find its perimeter.
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Question 1028858: David gave 10 cents to his daughter on her first birthday. He decided to give her triple the amount on each subsequent birthday. How much money would have his daughter received as birthday gift over a period of 10 years?
A). $2952.40
B) $984.10
C) $102.30
D) $51.10
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Question 1028653: The length of a rectangle is 3 yards less than the twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is 27 yards to the power of two. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1028980: A picture frame is two-and-one-half times as long as it is wide. If its area is 250 centimeters, find its perimeter.
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Question 1028980: A picture frame is two-and-one-half times as long as it is wide. If its area is 250 centimeters, find its perimeter.
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Question 1029190: You throw the rocket up in the air with an initial velocity of 50 feet per second, and the rocket leaves your hand 6 feet above the ground. if you catch it when it falls back to a height of 5 feet, how long was the rocket in the air? does the increase in initial velocity increase or decrease the air time of the rocket?
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Question 1029244: A circular piece of glass has a radius of 1.2 meters. The glass sells for $7.10 per square meter. What is the total cost of the circular piece of glass?

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Question 1029215: scerenio: aimee the artist has created a brand new concept for her new piece of art This new piece of art, when completed, will hang on the outside of the Arts Center at her college. below you can find a scale of her new concept
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Question 1029377: Tom cuts a slice of pizza into two parts. One part has an angle that measures 42 degrees. The other part has an angle that measures 79 degrees. What is the measure in degrees of the angle in the original slice that Tom cut?
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