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Question 1033331: Calculate the area of a standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of paper
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Question 1033355: Given that the moon has an angular measure of .5 degrees in the sky and knowing that it has a diameter of 2000 miled, use this to determine its distance from the earth.

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Question 1033336: Given that a 50 foot tall amazon women from a science fiction movie (bad sci-fi) is similar to a normal sized woman, determine her weight given that the average woman is 5.5 ft tall and weighs 140 lbs.
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Question 1033302: If a = 21 ft, b = 28 ft, and c = 35 ft, what is the total area of the porch? Assume that the wooden part is a right triangle and the concrete part is a square.
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Question 1033496: The length, width, and height of a brick are 3, 4, and 5 inches, respectively. A similar brick has length of 12 inches. The smaller brick weighs 50 pounds. How much will the larger brick weigh?
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Question 1033493: a granite sphere is outside a museeum. you measure 20 ft from the edge ( not the bottom), it makes a 32 degree angle to a spot not on the top of the sphere. What is the diameter of the sphere?

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Question 1033573: An open box is to be made from a 24 in. by 36 in. piece of cardboard by cutting out squares of equal size from the four corners and bending up the sides. Find the side of the cut out square so as obtain the maximum volume?

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Question 1033686: A triangular plot of land has sides of lengths 430 feet, 380 feet, and 190 feet. Approximate the smallest angle between the sides. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
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Question 1033816: Gary makes custom metal signs.
He has a sheet of metal that is 6 feet by 12 and want to cut it into signs that are 2 feet by 4 feet.
How many signs can he make?
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Question 1033928: If I had 430 rows of flowers and each row is 23 meters long what is the total length of the rows in kilometers
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Question 1034015: 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 370 revolutions.
How far has billy cycled?
give your answer to the nearest metre.
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Question 1034045: Each page of a book measures 12 inches by 8 inches. The cover extends beyond the shorter side one half inch in both directions. What is the permeter of the book's cover in inches?.
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Question 1034047: A dressmaker needs 120 square yards of red silk to make a new line of fashion apparel. Is the width of the silk is 2 yards, what is the length in yards?.
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Question 1034048: A pitchers mound covers a circular area of 9π square feet. What is the diameter of the mound in feet?.
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Question 1034051: A rectangular garden measures 3 feet by 15 feet. The gardener decides to extend the garden 2 feet in each of the four directions. What is the perimeter of the new garden in feet?.
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Question 1034019: The sculpture consists of four identical prisms. Jane says the surface area of the sculpture is 4 times the surface area of one prism. Which statement about Jane's method is true?
Jane should multiply volumes, not areas.

Jane should also subtract the areas of six hidden surfaces.

Jane should also add the areas of six hidden surfaces.

Jane is correct.
which is the right answer just to see if this website is not fake

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Question 1034153: A flying disc has a radius of 7 inches. What is the area of one side of the flying disc to the nearest square inch?
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Question 1034153: A flying disc has a radius of 7 inches. What is the area of one side of the flying disc to the nearest square inch?
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Question 1034153: A flying disc has a radius of 7 inches. What is the area of one side of the flying disc to the nearest square inch?
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Question 1034149: The area of a square chessboard is 324 square inches. What is the length of each side of the board in inches?
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Question 1034147: A regulation soccer field has an area of 59,400 square feet. If the length is in
330 feet
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Question 1034146: a regulation soccer field has an area of 59,400 square feet. If the length is 330 in feet?
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Question 1034142: What is the length of fencing material, in feet, needed to enclose this yard?. that is 35 feet and 20 feet.
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Question 1034216: The length of a rectangular carpet is 4 times its width. The area of the carpet is 144 square feet. What is the length of the carpet?.
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Question 1034213: Amanda wants to make a rectangular fenced area for her dogs. She wants the area to be 32 square feet with the length of the yard being twice the width. What would it coast amanda to put up fencing for her dogs if the fencing costs $3.00 per foot?.
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Question 1034267: The width of a rectangle is 3 inches less than the length. The perimeter is 30 inches. Find the length and the width.

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Question 1034298: Sam has 15 identical rectangular windows in his home. The length of each window is twice the width, and the area of each window is 8 square feet. Sam wants to put weather stripping around the perimeters of all the windows.
If the weather stripping costs $0.25 per foot, how much will he spend?
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Question 1034296: The length of a rectangular portrait is 2.5 times the width. the perimeter is 28 feet. What is the length of the portrait?.
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Question 1034295: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 26 feet. The length is 7 feet longer than the width. What is the length of the garden?
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Question 1034252: The area of the bottom of a shoebox can be written as A(x) = 2x^2 - 4 and the height of the shoebox can be written as h(x) = 3x + 2. Write an expression to represent the volume V(x) of the shoebox.
A) V(x) = 6x^3 - 8
B) V(x) = 2x^2 + 3x - 2
C) V(x) = 2x^2 - 12x - 8
D) V(x) = 6x^3 + 4x^2 - 12x - 8
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Question 1034303: The area of a triangle is 35 square centimeters. the base is 3 centimeters greater than the height. which equation could you use to find the height of the triangle in centimeters?
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Question 1034307: The length of a rectangular carpet is 2 times its width the area of the carpet is 128 square feet. What is the length of the carpet?.
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Question 1034326: The area of a triangle is 6 square feet. The base is 3 times the height. What is the base of the triangle?.
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Question 1034328: The area of a triangle is 15 square meters. The base is 1 meter less than the height. What is the height of the triangle?.
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Question 1034300: Lisa arranges 6 square paintings, as shown. The area of the arrangement is 225 square centimeters. what would it cost Lisa to frame her arrangement at a cost of 12 cents per centimeter?
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Question 1032796: Billy-Bob Hicks missed the UGA game this past week, so he recorded the game using his
handy-dandy DVR. He made sure to stay off Facebook and Twitter because he knew his
friends would be talking about the game. After the game, Billy-Bob recieves a phone call
from Darealist Williams informing him of the outcome of the game. Natually, Billy-Bob is
upset that Darealist thought it necessary to tell him the score and, in his rage, hurls his cell
phone vertically upward from the top of a 96-foot building. The quadratic function
s(t) = -16t2 + 96t + 96 models the phoneʹs height above the ground, s(t), in feet, t seconds
after it was thrown. How many seconds does it take for the phone to hit the ground?
Round to the nearest tenth of a second if necessary.
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Question 1034536: a rectangular parking space has an area of 150 square feet. the length is 3 feet greater than twice the width. find the dimensions of the space rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot.
I got so far as to write L*W=A and realize that L = 2W+3 and then set it up as W(2W+3)=150 but after that I don't know what is the BEST way to approach this problem.
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Question 1034555: A farmer has a triangular field besides 120 yards, 170 yards, and 220 yards. Find the area of the field in square yards.
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Question 1034607: Hoshi is working on an art project in the shape of a triangular prism. The sides of the triangle are 2.4 feet, 1.5 feet, and 1.3 feet. Find the measures of the angles of the triangle to the nearest tenth
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Question 1034651: The area of a rectangular field is 2c�-c�+6 square units.
If the length of the field is c−2 units, what is its width?

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Question 1034666: Jose owns a square parcel of land on the north side of West-East Road. The property is on the edge of the road between the one- and two-mile markers. The Farm-To-Market(FM) runs perpendicular to the West-East Road and one mile west of the one-mile marker. The cable company wants to run a cable through Jose's property fro, the intersection of the Farm-To-Market(FM) Road and West-East Road. The cable must divide Jose's parcel of land into two parts that are equal in area. Determine the equation of the line that will represent the path of the buried cable. Determine the length of the portion of the cable that runs across Jose's property.
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Question 1034667: David and Sandra Jessee are planning to build a ramp so that the front entrance of their home will be wheelchair accessible. The ramp will be 3-feet wide. It will rise 2in. for each foot of length of horizontal distance. Where the ramp meets the porch, the ramp must be 2ft high. To prove stability for the ramp, the Jessees will install a slab of concrete 4in thick and 6in longer and wider tha the ramp. The top of the slab will be level with the ground. The ramp may be constructed of a concrete or pressure-treated lumber. You are to estimate the cost of materials for constructing the slab, the ramp of concrete, and the ramp of pressure-treated lumber.
a) Determine the length of the base of the ramp.
b) Determine the dimensions of the concrete slab on which the will set.
c) Determine the volume of the concrete in cubic yards needed to construct the slab.
d) if ready mix concrete cost $45 per cubic yard, determine the cost of the concrete needed to construct the slab.
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Question 1034780: Jessica wants to build a tool shed in her backyard but is only using the area beyond the path running through the yard. How large would the shed be it is triangular-shaped with sides of length 8 feet, 15 feet, and 20 feet
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