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Question 1034675: A dart hits the square dartboard shown below at a random point. Find the probability of the circular region. Each side of the dartboard is 14 inches, and the radius of the shaded region is 6 inches.
Use the value 3.14 for pie. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1034516: A square has 12cm sides. Describe its imag for a dilation with center at one of the vertices and scale factor of 0.4.
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Question 1034785: The area of a rectangular field is 2c3 − c2 + 6 square units. If the length of the field is c − 2 units, what is its width?

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Question 1034828: How would I draw this out > A rectangular room is 10 longer than it is wide, and its perimeter is 64 meters, what are the length and width ?
Thank you
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Question 1034851: Caleb and Emily are standing 100 yards from each other. Caleb looks up at a 45� angle to see a hot air balloon. Emily looks up at a 60� angle to see the same hot air balloon. Approximately how far is the hot air balloon off the ground?
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Question 1034911: A broker has invested $21,500 in two mutual funds, one earning 9% annual interest and the other earning 14%. After 1 year, his combined interest is $2,860. How much was invested at each rate?
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Question 1034965: If a rectangular computer screen is 17 inches wide and 12 inches high, then what is its diagonal measure to the nearest inch?
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Question 1034963: Construct a triangular pyramid with a surface area between 1800 and 2100 square centimeters and a volume between 4000 and 4500 cubic centimeters. What are the dimensions of the triangular pyramid?
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Question 1034950: The flag of Scotland is divided into four triangles by a diagonal white cross. It is the cross of St. Andrew. What is the measure of the angle labeled (2x+9)?
Top of flag is (2x+9)
Bottom of flag is (4x-3)
_______Degrees?
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Question 1034936: The flag of Scottland is divided into four triangles by a white cross. It is the cross of St. Andrew. What is the measure of the angle labeled (2x+9)?
Top of flag is (2x+9)
Bottom of flag is (4x+3)
_________degrees?
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Question 1035127: A rectangle is inscribed in a semicircle of radius
r = 12. Find a function that models the area A of the rectangle in terms of its height h.

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Question 1035113: Please help solve this word problem - Grade 3 Math Makes Sense
Ingrid bought 12 units of fencing to enclose her yard. What might the area of her yard be? Give as many different answers as you can.
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Question 1035199: Hello. My son is having trouble with this problem. Bob by the rope that is 30 and a half feet long. He already has a rope at home that is 2/3 the length of the new hose. How many total yards of rope does Bob have now?
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Question 1035200: A rectangular garden measures 5ft wide by 12 ft long if a hose costs 5 dollars per foot how much would it cost to place a hose through the diagonal of the garden
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Question 1035277: 2. If 30% of the Wall's height was 8metres and the other 70% was 12metres high, what would its total approximate area to the nearest metre be?

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Question 1035431: The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 80%. find the area if the measure of the congruent sides are 14in. round to the nearest tenth.

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Question 1035461: For which Values of X will the set {10,24, x} be sides of a triangle?
(please include formula and solution, if possible. thank you)
A. 4 < x < 34
B. 7 < x < 17
C. 14 < x < 34
D. 10 < x < 24
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Question 1035423: The second side of a triangular deck is 5 feet longer than the shorter side and a third side that is 5 feet shorter than twice the length of the shorter side. If the perimeter of the deck is 48 feet, what are the lenghts of the three sides
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Question 1035470: "My bicycle has a rear wheel whose diameter is 1.2 times as big as the diameter of
the front wheel. As I ride my bicycle, if the front wheel turns 120 times, how many times the rear wheel will turn?"
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Question 1035462: A cylinder with height 6cm has the same volume as a cone. If the cone has a volume 294pi cm^3 what is the radius of the cylinder?
A. 5cm
B. 6cm
C. 7cm
D. 9cm
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Question 1035430: A set of wooden planks is to be arranged in an equilateral triangle shape in a circular pool, with the points of the triangle touching the edge of the pool. What is the total length of the planks needed if the pool has a radius of 5 meters?
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Question 1035557: Hi tutors, hopefully you ca help with this grade 3 math makes sense book word problem..:)
The title: Comparing Area and Perimeter
Ingrid bought 12 units of fencing to enclose her yard. What might the area of her yard be?
Give as many different answers as you can.
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Question 1035543: Given regular hexagon ABCDEF, find the following apothem, Perimeter, and Area if side ED is 18 inches?

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Question 1035540: Your mom is wants to put a stain glass window above the front door. It's shape is a semicircle with a diameter of 7 feet. How much stain glass will your mom need to make the stain glass window?
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Question 1035550: A roof in the shape of a half cylinder cover the Center Street ice rink. the ice rink is a rectangle having a width of 50 feet and the length of 80 feet. what is the surface area of the roof? [use pi = 3.14] [Round the answer to the nearest square foot.] MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWER: A) 12,560 ft.^2 B) 6280 ft.^2 C)7851ft.^2 D) 8243 ft.^2
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Question 1035597: The foundation of a building has sides that are all the same length, and the angle between two consecutive sides of the foundation measures 1440. If a person were flying over the buildings foundation in a plane, what two dimensional shape would the person in the plane see?
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Question 1035547: The perimeter of a triangle is 24m- 6 units. If two of the sides are 5m- 7 units and 2m+ 5 units,what is the length of the third side?
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Question 1035599: A tunnel is 30 yards long and 15 yards wide. The height of the tunnel walls is 5 yards before the curve of the cylinder-shaped ceiling. What is the volume of the tunnel? Use 3.14 for pi. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 1035437: a field is in the shape of a parallelogram of length 6x metres.The perpendicular distance between the lengths is 4x metres. Given that its area is 600 square metres, then the value of x is?

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Question 1035858: The area of a square garden is 150 square feet. What is the length of each side of the garden, rounded to the nearest tenth
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Question 1035877: A tree that is 72' tall would have a baise circumference of what? Please show me the math formula to figure this problem out thank you.
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Question 1035915: A large photograph is placed onto a rectangular backing sheet. the dimensions 100 cm by 50 cm. the border is the same width all the way around. determine the width of the border if the area of the border is 1400 cm2
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Question 1035943: Find the area of a regular hexagon with an apothem 8.7 feet long and a side 10 feet long.
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Question 1035989: fran used a graphics program to reduce a digital image. the original dimensions of the image were 20 cm wide by 12 cm long. she used a scale factor of 0.6. what are the dimensions of the reduction?
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Question 1036062: what is the surface are of a right prism with a length of 17, a width of 8, and a height of 13?
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Question 1036072: The new community swimming pool is pentagonal in a shape with three interior angles of 105 102 104 respectively. The other two interior angles have measures of 8x-11 and 4x. Find the measure of two missing angles

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Question 1036086: What is the geometric mean of 12 and 20 rounded to the nearest tenth?
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Question 1035955: You are going to build a new garage similar to the rectangular one you currently have. The current dimensions are 25 feet wide by 20 feet long. You need to stake and rope off where the concrete will be poured. If the new garage is going to have a width of 30 feet, how much rope are you going to need?

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Question 1036087: A rectangular banner measures 5 ft by 8 ft. How much material do you need for eight banners?
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Question 1036128: A rectangle has the dimensions 10ft x 15ft. If it is dilated by a scale factor by1/5, what are the new dimensions?
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Question 1036132: Hey rectangular room is 12' ft by 15 ft. Base trim is put around the room except 3 feet wide door . How many feet of base trim is needed
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