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Question 1029646: The height of a painting is twice its width x.you want a 3inch wide wooden frame for the painting.The area of the frame alone is 216 square inches what are the dimesions of the frame include a variable expression of the area of the frame alone
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Question 1029747: Jenny needs to determine the height of a tree, the angle of elevation from her eyes is 45 degrees. She is standing 6 yards from the tree. The distance from the ground to her eyes is 5ft. How tall is the tree?
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Question 1029811: The length of a rectangle is x mm while its width(x-100).find the dimensions of the rectangle giving maximum area
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Question 1029746: There is a cell phone tower in the field across Tess's house. If she walks 50ft from the tower, and finds the angle of elevation from her position to the top of the tower to be 60 degrees. How tall is the tower?
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Question 1029852: A triangular parcel of ground has sides of lengths 725ft, 650ft and 575ft. Find the measure of the largest angle.
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Question 1029849: A dump truck has a 15ft bed. What is the height of the bed when the angle of elevation is 30 degrees, 45 degrees, and 60 degrees?
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Question 1029900: One dimension increases by 7 cm while the other decreases by 7cm what is the area of the new rectangle in terms of x.

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Question 1029925: A 12 inch metal square is to be transformed into a stop sign by snipping off the four corners. If this is done accurately, how long will the sides of the stop sign be?
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Question 1029933: A plane is flying at an elevation of 21000 feet.
It is within sight of the airport and the pilot finds that the angle of depression to the airport is 24
Find the distance between the plane and the airport.Find the distance between a point on the ground directly below the plane and the airport
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Question 1029958: How many square feet of glass is needed to make the window with 3.5 feet x 2 feet?
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Question 1029851: Because of prevailing winds, a tree grew so that it was leaning 4 degrees from vertical. At a point 35 meters from the tree the angle of elevation to the top of the tree is 23 degrees. Find the height of the tree.
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Question 1029869: In triangle ABC, point X is the midpoint of line AC and Y is the point one-third of the way from B to C. Segments AY and BX intersect at point Z. Find the ratio AZ : ZY.
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Question 1030284: What is the surface area of the greatest wooden right cylinder that can be carved out of a wooden cube whose volume is 216in^3. Round to the nearest hundredth in necessary.
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Question 1030365: The radius of wire is decrease to one-third. If volume remains the same, the length become.

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Question 1030381: Jesse and Dawn were out in their rowboat one day,and Jesse spied a water lily. Knowing that Dawn liked a mathematical challenge, Jesse announced that with the help of the plant it was possible to calculate the depth of the water under the boat. While Dawn held the top of the plant, which is originally 10 inches above the water surface, Jesse gently rowed the boat five feet, which forced Dawn's hand to the water surface. How deep was the water?
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Question 1030375: A photo albumof contain small and large photographs. Each llarge photographs has side lengths that are twice the side length of each small photograph . The area of each small photograph is 24 in.� what is the area of each large photograph? Explain
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Question 1030478: The dimensions of a rectangular garden were 3 m x 10 m. When both dimensions were increased by the same amount, the area of the garden doubled. Find the dimensions of the new garden. plz help
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Question 1030535:
In the figure below, quadrilateral ABCD has AB parallel with CD, BC=3 and AB=4. What is the area of triangle ABD?
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Question 1030569: Mr. Macy's garden is surrounded by a fence. The fence makes four right angeles at each corner. All four sides of the fence are 14 meters long. What shape best describes mr. Macy's garden
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Question 1030590: The height of a triangle is 3cm greater than the base. The area of the triangle is 77sqaure cm. Find the length of the base and height of a triangle.
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Question 1030634: Benjamin visited an art show and saw a painting he really wanted to purchase but it was very expensive! In the gift shop, he found that he could by post cards of the paintings at a much more affordable price. The post card was 4 inches by 6 inches and it said that it was 2/7 the size of the original. What are the dimensions of the original painting?
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Question 1030720: A banner is made of a square and a semicircle the square has a side length of 26 inches one side of the square is also the diameter of the semicircle what is the total area of the banner use 3.14 pi
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Question 1030931: A minor league baseball team plays 96 games in a season if the team won 16 more than three times as many games as they lost how many wins and losses did the team have?
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Question 1031089: Manny wishes to determine the height of a flag pole. He takes a sighting of the top of the flag pole from point P with an angle of 53 degrees. He then moves futher away 20 meters from the flagpole and take an other sighting with an angle of 28 degrees. How high is the flagpole?
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Question 1031094: In a room each wall is x feet. If you extend the room by 15 ft each way, the new area of the room is 900 ft. What was the original lengths of the walls?
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Question 1031061: Define variables, state the equation. The width of a rectangular room is four feet less than its length. If the area of the room is 252 square feet, what are the dimensions?

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Question 1031160: a woman plans to use one-fourth of her 48-foot-by-100-foot rectangular backyard to plant a garden. find the perimeter of the garden if the length is to be 40 feet greater than the width.

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Question 1031169: Two vertices of a triangle are (2,4) and (-2,3) and the area is 2 square units, the locus of the third vertex is?
What should be the answer here?
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Question 1031191: This is a floor for ms Gaza's townhouse(length12cm and width10cm).the house has a square shaped bathroom,one rectugular bedroom, one living room and a kitchen(length 4cm and width 3cm).the opposite walls of the house are parallel and equal in length.what is the perimeter and area of ms Gaza"s house?
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Question 1031231: Tanya has a triangular garden bed in her back yard. The measure of the largest angle is 30 degrees less than twice the measure of the smallest. And the measure of the middle angle is 10 degrees more then the smallest. Find the measure of the three angles Start your work by defining the unknown quantities in terms of a variable
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Question 1031281: A rectangular prism shaped aquarium is 10 in. By 20 in. By 15 in. High. The dept of the water is now 8 in. The owner decides to add stones that total 10 in.^3. How much will the water level change?
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Question 1031324: The equation (x−1)2+(y−3)2=r2 represents circle A. The point B(4, 7) lies on the circle. What is r, the length of the radius of circle A?
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Question 1031435: Pythagorean answer

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Question 1031537: If the radius of one sphere if 6 times longer than the radius of a second sphere, how many times bigger is the surface area of the larger sphere?
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Question 1031540: The radius of one sphere is half the length of the radius of a second sphere. If the volume of the second sphere is 400 cm cubed, what is the volume of the first?
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Question 1031541: The ratio of the surface areas of two rectangular right prisms is 64:81. What is the scale factor?
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Question 1031444: the perimeter of a shape is 275 feet. 4 of its 6 sides add up to 195 feet. The two remaining sides are equal. What is the length of each remaining side?
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Question 1031538: Two similar cubes have a scale factor of 1:2. If the volume of the smaller cube is 125 cm cubed, what is the volume of the larger cube?
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Question 1031536: Two similar rectangles have a scale factor of 3:2. If the area of the larger one is 45, what is the area of the smaller rectangle?
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Question 1031687: Ally is making a scale diagram of her classroom. She uses a scale factor of 3 centimeters per foot to draw the diagram. The actual length of the classroom is 18 feet, and its width is 20 feet. What is the area of the scale drawing of the classroom?
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Question 1031724: a floor in Phillips house is rectangular and measures 12' x 14' he wants to put a circular rug on the floor which is closest to the area of the largest circular rug he can use use 3.14 for pi
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Question 1031798: Floor plan of the taylors kitchen.family are looking at options for tiling the floor.kitchen 6m�3m.(rectangle).how many tiles each measuring 100cm�100cm would be needed to cover the entire kichen floor?.2) if the 1m�1m tile come in boxes of five,many boxes would be needed?.
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Question 1031848: A fabric wall hanging is to fill a space that measures 7 m by 6.5 m. Allowing for 0.1 m of the fabric to be folded back along each edge, how much fabric must be purchased for the wall hanging?
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