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Question 1046956: three carpenters are building an elevated walkway between two buildings. they have already completed 5 feet. they esimate that in one minute they can complete one half foot of the walkway. what is the expression
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Question 1047031: find the measure of an angle which is 53 degree more than its supplement
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Question 1047031: find the measure of an angle which is 53 degree more than its supplement
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Question 1047117: Sand piles up in the shape of a right circular cone whose radius equals its height. The sand comes from a full box with dimensions 3 ft by 4 ft by 3 ft. What is the height of the conical sand pile?
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Question 1047134: A cyclist to travel to 20 km/h faster than an in-line skater. In the time it took the cycle is to travel 80 km of the skater had gone 30 km. find the speed of the skater
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Question 1047135: A rowing team rode 16 miles while going with the current in the same amount of time as it took to row 30 miles going against the current. The rate of the current was 3 mph. Find the rate of the rowing team in still water
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Question 1047149: A circular fish pond with a diameter of 4 m, has circular paving that is 1,2 m wide around it. The litres
of paving paint that will have to be bought to cover the paving if 2 litres are needed per square metre,
rounded to the nearest litre, is . . . .
[1] 39 ℓ
[2] 40 ℓ
[3] 20 ℓ
[4] 69 ℓ
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Question 1047233: A square that has an area of 225 cm� if stretch to make a larger Square the larger square has an area of four times that of the original Square what is the perimeter of the larger Square?
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Question 1047259: Matthew makes 33 cookies and gives each friend the same number of cookies. Matthew, being selfless, takes to fear for himself assuming all the cookies are given out how many friends does Matthew have ?
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Question 1047263: Matthew makes 33 cookies and gives each friend the same number of cookies. Matthew, being selfless, takes two for himself assuming all the cookies are given out how many friends does Matthew have ?
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Question 1047265: How many integers from 1 to 10 ( including one in 10 ) could yield a ones digit of seven when raise to a natural number?
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Question 1047264: Matthew makes 33 cookies and gives each friend the same number of cookies. Matthew, being selfless, takes two fewer for himself assuming all the cookies are given out how many friends does Matthew have ?
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Question 1047326: A room measures 6m x 8m x 3m. What is the length of the longest pole you could fit into the room and what angle does it fit with the floor?
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Question 1047453: Conjecture: the product of two perfect squares. Conclusion:
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Question 1047619: Ali paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 20 in. wide by 15 in. high. He then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The perimeter of the mat is 94 in. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture?
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Question 1047620: hello I need help solving this question,
if a goat is tethered to the outside corner of a barn by 16 foot rope, what that is the maximum area of grass the goat can eat? (the barn forms a right angle).

thank you!!

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Question 1047740: A sand pit is constructed in the shape of a rectangle prism 10m long, 50cm deep and 2cm wide. If the pit is half-full, how much more sand in m3, I needed to completely fill the pit.

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Question 1047865: If I Have a 6 x 6 square and I want to cut it up into six regions with all of the perimeter is being twelve what is the answer
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Question 1047930: A cube has side length aa. The side lengths are decreased to 20% of their original size. Write an expression in simplest form for the volume of the new cube in terms of aa.
An expression is
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Question 1048052: if a 32 meter pole is broken into two parts at a ratio of 3 to 5, what is the measurement of the larger of the two parts
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Question 1048133: John wants to buy a rug for a room that is 19ft wide and 33ft long. He wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. He can afford to buy 275 square ft of carpet, what dimensions should the rug have?
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Question 1048159: Suppose that a rectangular classroom is 39 feet long, 43 feet wide and has a volume of 3,721 cubic feet. How high above the floor is the ceiling?

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Question 1048095: John adding on to his house the original room a square with side length of x with the addition Journal at 10 feet to the length and 13 feet to the way the area of the new room will be 270 square feet what were the original dimensions of the room
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Question 1048243: if you have 24 square pieces of wood, describe all the ways you could make a triangle by placing them side by side
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Question 1048261: A floor plan shows that the exterior of a room has dimensions 12 feet by 17 feet. If the area of the room measured from the interior is only 176 square feet, express the thickness of the surrounding walls in feet. (Assume that the walls have uniform thickness).

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Question 1048287: Write an equation of a line that has the same y intercept as 5y-2x=-5 and x intercept as 3y+4x=-12
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Question 1048298: Write the equation of a line perpendicular to 7x+9y=12 and has the same y intercept as 3x-2y=11
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Question 1048391: An empty circular swimming pool with radius of 8 ft and height of 5 ft is being filled by a pump that is running at 0.95 gallons per second. How long will it take to fill the pool 80% full? ( 1 cu. ft = 7.481 gal)
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Question 1048448: A circular pool measures 10 feet across. One cubic yard of concrete is to be used to create a circular border of uniform width around the pool. If the border is to have a depth of , how wide will the border be? Use 3.14 to approximate π. Express your solution rounded to two decimal places. (1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet)
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Question 1048301: Write an equation of a like that has the same y intercept as 5y-2x=-5 and x intercept as 3y+4y=-12
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Question 1048480: An architect draws a blueprint of a house. He draws the living room on the blueprint as 4.5 in. long by 6 in. wide with a scale of 1 in. for every 4 ft. He draws a second copy of the blueprint with a scale of 1 in. for every 3 ft. How many inches long should the living room be in this second blueprint?
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Question 1048529: The area of a right triangle is 24m squared.
One leg is 22.0 meters longer than the other. Find the lengths of the legs.please show work
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Question 1048512: The width of a rectangle is 6 feet shorter than its length. If its perimeter is 82 feet, what is its width?
please show steps thanks
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Question 1048512: The width of a rectangle is 6 feet shorter than its length. If its perimeter is 82 feet, what is its width?
please show steps thanks
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Question 1048668: a rug is to fit a room so that a border of even width is left on all four sides. If the room is 21 by 24 feet and the area of the rug is 238 square feet, how wide will the border be?

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Question 1048700: The height of a rectangular box is 4 times its length, and its width is 5ft
more than its length. The volume of the box is 96ft3. Find the length of the box. Round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 1048957: The length of a rectangle is 8 cm more than its width. If the length is decreased by 9 and the width is tripled, the area is increased by 50%. What was the area of the original triangle?

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Question 1048968: An isosceles triangle has a vertical angle of 108 and base 20 cm long. Find its altitude?

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Question 1049087: Howard made a poster for the school advertising career week. He first sketched his design on an 8.5 in. By 11 in. Sheet of notebook paper . Then he expanded his design using a scale factor of 4. What are the dimensions of the poster? What is the area of the poster? What is the ratio of the area of the poster to the area of the sketch?
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Question 1049089: Suppose you resized an 8-inch by 10inch photo to be an 11-inch photo. Did you see the same scale factor for each dimension ? Explain
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Question 1049272: Find the diameter of a circle whose area as 112 cm� round your answer to the nearest 10th
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