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Question 1036111: Bill and Paula, standing on the same side of land in line with the the Washington Monument, are looking at it's top. The angle of elevation from bill's position is 34.1�, and the angle of elevation from Paula's position is 60.0�.If bill and Paula stand on level ground an are 500 feet apart; how tall is the monument?
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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 1036191: Triangle. Distance around is 58 feet. What are lengths of each side?
2nd grade homework.
Cannot use division geometry Pythagorean
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Question 1035844: A slide on the playground is 12 one in a half feet long. It is 3 feet 7inches longer than the small slide. How long is the small slide?
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Question 1036242: Given a square ABCD which represents a baseball field, find the distance between the pitcher's mound (which is the centre of the field) to the home (a point on the square) if each side length of the field is 30m.
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Question 1036245: I really need help with this one. Please help me!
This octagon has all right angles. If the consecutive vertices of the octagon are A=(0,0), B=(6,0), and C=(6,-5), what are the coordinates to vertex E?
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Question 1035831: How do I solve for perimeter and area of a box with all sides that equal 6 inches and I want to add 1.6 centimeters

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Question 1036376: jeremy wants to put a fence around a circular swimming pool. he knows the area of the pool's top surface is 64pi square meters. how much fencing does jeremy need for the pool?
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Question 1036382: The Length of a rectangle is 4 less than 3 times the width. if the perimeter is 40, find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 1036450: My fence is 7' high and it's 220' to the base of the fence. What is the lenght of a ball traveling over the fence?
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Question 1036493: The rectangle is 33 feet long and 25 feet wide if the gardener wants to build a fence around the garden how many feet of fence are required
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Question 1036603: The area of a triangle is 243 in2. If both its length and width are reduced to one-third their original length, what would it's new area be.

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Question 1036715: Not a student, haven't done stuff like this in 30 years. I have a room that will be 3,600 sq. feet and will be 30% wider than it is deep. How many feet wide would the room be?
Thank you.
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Question 1036791: If a roll of paper is 30" wide and contains 50 sq ft, how many linear inches does it contain? I have 29 gifts to wrap and need 32" for each gift. I'm trying to figure out how many rolls of gift wrap I need. Thank you very much.
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Question 1036830: a rectangular garden has a length of 73 ft and a width of 36 ft. A fence completely surrounds the garden. What is the length in feet od the fence
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Question 1036911: a rectangle has an area of 100in^2 and a perimeter of 50in. find the length and the width
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Question 1036916: Find the dimensions of a cylindrical container with a volume of 40 cubic inches and a side area of 60 square inches
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Question 1036916: Find the dimensions of a cylindrical container with a volume of 40 cubic inches and a side area of 60 square inches
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Question 1036916: Find the dimensions of a cylindrical container with a volume of 40 cubic inches and a side area of 60 square inches
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Question 1037059: You and a friend are both reading a book. You read two pages every minute and have already read 55 pages. You friend reads 3 pages every minute and has already read 35 pages. Write an equation that will determine how many more minutes you and your friend need to read to be on the same page. Use m for the number of minutes.

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Question 1037089: A giant parabolic dish has a diameter of 400 meters and a depth of 80 meters. find an equation in the form that describes a cross section of this dish.
if the receiver is located at the focus, how far should it be from the vertex?
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Question 1037378: If possible, find the area of the triangle defined by the following: B= 45, C= 20, A= 71�
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Question 1037378: If possible, find the area of the triangle defined by the following: B= 45, C= 20, A= 71�
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Question 1037396: What is the area of a regular hexagon if it's apothem has a length of 2.8 feet and each side has a length of 8 feet?
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Question 1037435: The length of a field is 6m greater than its width .if the perimeter must not exceed 80m, calculate the greatest value for its width

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Question 1037433: The length of a rectangle is 6m greater than its width. If the perimeter must not exceed 80m, calculate the greatest value for its width.
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Question 1037428: if a sector of a circle with an angle of 60� has an area of 24 pi what is the radius of the circle
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Question 1037457: simon has a garden that is ten feet wide with a perimeter of 50. what is the area?
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Question 1037241: A veterinarian wishes to use 132 feet of chain-link fencing to enclose a rectangular region and subdivide the region into smaller rectangular regions. If the total enclosed area is 576 square feet, find the dimensions of the enclosed region.
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Question 1037538: A rectangular field has an area of 600 square feet. If a scale drawing of the fied has a length of 4 inches and an area of 20 square inches, what is the perimeter of the field in real life?
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Question 1037550: To build a bookcase, Paul needs 8 pieces of lumber, each 38 1/2 inches long. What is the minimum number of 10 foot boards that he should buy
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Question 1037548: a PERSON WHO IS 6 FEET TALL CASTS A SHADOW 32 FEET LONG BETWEEN (N) AND (G), THE DISTANCE ALONG THE GROUND FROM THE PERSON (N) TO THE FLAGPOLE (L) IS 128 FEET, AND THE DISTANCE FROM THE FLAGPOLE (L) TO THE TREE (R) IS 800 FEET.
SET UP A PROPORTION AND FIND THE HEIGHT OF THE FLAGPOLE.
SET UP A PROPORTION AND FIND THE HEIGHT OF THE TREE.
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Question 1037547: find the perimeter of a square in which the square of its diagonals is 200cmsquare
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Question 1037547: find the perimeter of a square in which the square of its diagonals is 200cmsquare
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Question 1037547: find the perimeter of a square in which the square of its diagonals is 200cmsquare
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Question 1037652: Shana wants to use all 62 feet of the fencing she has to make a rectangular run for her dog. She decides to make the length of the run 20 feet. She writes and solves the equation 2l + 2w = 62 to find the width of the run.
Which statements are true of the solution?
A.The value of w is 10 feet.
B.The value of w can be zero.
C.The value of w cannot be a negative number.
D.Substitution is used to replace the variable l with a value of 20.
E.The subtraction property of equality is used to isolate the term with the variable w.
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Question 1037648: A circle is defined by the equation x2 + y2 � x � 2y � = 0. What are the coordinates for the center of the circle and the length of the radius?
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Question 1037667: A ski slope drops 20 feet for every horizontal 30 feet
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Question 1037702: what is the approximate distance between a campsite at (85,−320) and your location at (−125,−200), where the coordinates are measured in meters.

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Question 1037701: Dave wants to have a circular garden in his backyard. The garden will have a border using curved bricks. Each brick has a curved inside length of 6 inches,and Dave will need exactly 50 bricks to complete this task. He will then fill the garden with soil from bags of dirt. Each bag will cover 10 square feet. How many bags of soil will Dave need to completely fill the garden? Explain how you solved the problem.
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