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Question 1049525: Elliot, the architect, is planning a new building project. He has a
rectangular plot of land on which to build. He knows that the length is
three more meters than the width and that the perimeter is 42 meters.
What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 1049572: Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 14 ft wide and 29 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 250 square feet of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug have?
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Question 1049737: The figure below shows 2 squares . The area of the shaded part of the figure is 28 cm .If the sides of both squares are whole numbers, find the perimeter of the shaded part.
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Question 1049858: A sail on a sailboat is in the shape of two adjacent right triangles. The hypotenuse of the lower triangle is 10 ft, and one leg is 2 ft shorter than the other leg. Find the lengths of the legs of the lower triangle.
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Question 1049868: Sec^2 theta +Cos^2 Theta >1 for any acute angle theta
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Question 1050040: A rectangular fish tank measures 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet deep. If a guppy requires 1.3 cubic feet of water, what is the maximum number of guppies that can live in this tank? Show all work and round your answer to the nearest whole guppy.
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Question 1050073: What is the area of a rectangular yard if 2 of the sides have lengths of 30 yds and 22 yds?
Question 1 options:

60 sq yds

52 sq yds

104 sq yds

660 sq yds
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Question 1050137: New carpeting is being installed in a rectangular office. In order to know how much carpeting to buy, the area of the office must be calculated. The perimeter of the office is 40 feet and the ratio of its length by its width is 3:2. What is the area (in square feet) of the office?

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Question 1050258: If a goat is tied to a pole at one corner of a square paddock with one length of a side being 24 meters, what length does the rope be for the goat to be able to graze half the paddock

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Question 1050416: a 4ft by 4ft sandbox is placed on a square lawn whose side is x feet long. express the area left over as a polynomial. Thanks!
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Question 1050413: The area of a larger square is 88 in.� is greater than the area of the smaller square what are the links of the sides of each square give the answer approximately to the nearest 10th The X is 3
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Question 1050471: The length of a rectangle is 7 more than the width. The area is 744 square yards. Find the length and width of the rectangle.

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Question 1050855: The segment [a,b],where A(-3,1) and B(5,7) is a diameter of a circle c,
Find the coordinates of the centre and calculate the length of the radius.
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Question 1050944: The measure of the smallest angle of a triangle is
one-fifth
the measure of the largest angle. The measure of the second angle is
95 degrees�
less than the measure of the largest angle. Find the measure of the angles of the triangle.
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Question 1050991: You are going to build a rectangular pool with a uniform walkway around it. The total area for the pool and walkway is 1800 square feet. If the pool is 16' by 30', what is the uniform width of the walkway?
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Question 1051086: Please help me how to solve this problem.
The width of a rectangle is fixed at 20 cm and the perimeter can be no greater than 100 cm. Find the maximum length of the rectangle.
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Question 1051109: If a rectangular region having an area of 500 square units has its length increased by 20% and its width decreased by 10%, what is the area of the newly formed region?
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Question 1051181: Please help me how to solve this problem.Thanks.
Ramon wants to fence in a rectangular portion of his back yard against the back of his garage for a vegetable garden. He plans to use 68 feet of fence, and needs fence on only three sides. Find the maximum area he can enclose. (Hint: The lengths of the 3 fenced sides of the rectangle must add up to 68.)
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Question 1051313: A large office desk has an area of 42 feet squared. If the width is 3.5 feet,write an to represent the area.
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Question 1051395: Mike�s son owes his dad some money. If he pays $8 a week for 10 weeks, how much has he paid?
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Question 1051415: A right triangle has a hypotenuse that measures 23 feet and one leg that measures 8 feet. Find the length of the other leg.
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Question 1051430: There are 12 blocks, each with a thickness of 3/4 of an inch. What is the combined thickness of the blocks?
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Question 1051514: Zaria and Maisie joined the National Math Club, and during the first club meeting they played Fence
Me In. In the game, Zaria and Maisie were given two six-sided dice and a game board that was a
20�unit by 20-unit grid. During each turn, one player rolled the dice and calculated the product of
the two numbers that were rolled. This product could be considered either the area of a rectangle, in
units squared, or the perimeter of a rectangle, in units. The player then had to draw a rectangle with
either that area or that perimeter and with integer dimensions (necessarily the same as the two
numbers rolled) on the game board. Zaria and Maisie took turns rolling the dice and then drawing a
rectangle. If either was unable to draw a rectangle in the remaining area, the player would lose a
turn. Play continued until the entire board was completely filled with non-overlapping rectangles.
How many possible products can Zaria and Maisie roll?
What is the area of the largest possible rectangle that
can be drawn during a turn in this game?
If Zaria rolled a 3 and a 6 on her first turn, how many
different sized rectangles could she draw?
What is the minimum number of rectangles it could
possibly take for Zaria and Maisie to completely fill the
game board?
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Question 1051552: Hypotenuse is 290
One leg is x
The other leg is x-238
What is x please
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Question 1051459: Macy is trying to construct an isosceles triangle. She assigns an angle measurement of 40� to the unique angle of the triangle. She wants the length of the opposite side (the base) to be 6 centimeters. How many isosceles triangles can Macy construct using this information?
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Question 1052083: A road sign indicating falling rocks is in the shape of an equilateral triangle, with each side measuring 100 centimeters.
a. Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the height of the triangle.
b. Find the area of the sign.
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Question 1052145: A carpenter is building a rectangular bookcase with diagonal braces across the back, as shown. The carpenter knows that mangle ADC is a right angle and that mangle BDC is 34� greater than mangle ADB. Solve an equation to find mangle BDC and mangle ADB.

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The measure of angle BDC is � and the measure of angle ADB is �.

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Question 1052294: eden made a rectangular mosaic using 256 one centimeter square tiles. she used exactly 80 cm wood to make the frame. what are the dimensions of her design?
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Question 1052345: Let x be a random variable that represents white blood cell count per cubic milliliter of whole blood. Assume that x has a distribution that is approximately normal, with mean μ = 7100 and estimated standard deviation σ = 2450. A test result of x < 3500 is an indication of leukopenia. This indicates bone marrow depression that may be the result of a viral infection.
(a) What is the probability that, on a single test, x is less than 3500? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
(b) What is the probability of x < 3500? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
(c) Repeat part (b) for n = 3 tests taken a week apart. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
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Question 1052357: The width is 3'2" and height is 8ft. That is 1 panel. If i have 4 of that length by height what total area is that?
32'x12'11"?
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Question 1052650: A rectangular deck is to be built so that the width and the length are two consecutive even integers and the perimeter is 252 ft. Find the dimension of the deck?
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Question 1052712: The measure of one angle of a parallelogram is 85 degree.what are the measure of other angle.
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Question 1052752: Mr Flores has a circular fountain with a radius of 5feet. He plans on installing a brick path around the fountain. (Shows small circle 5ft radius then outer circle 9 ft with line from center dot to outer line of second circle. ) If each brick covers 2 square feet, how many bricks will he need?
Help please
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Question 1052618: A house number is displayed on a plaque in the shape of a regular 7-sided polygon. The area of the plaque is 70 squared inches. The perpendicular distance from a side to the center is 5 inches to the nearest inch. What is the perimeter of the plaque?
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Question 1052868: The area of a rectangular field is 48 Sq meters and it's perimeter is 32 meters. Find the dimensions of the field.
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Question 1053123: A 4m by 6m rug covers half a floor area of a room and leaves a uniform strip of base floor around the edges. What are the dimensions of the room?
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Question 1053346: Determine the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 3 metres more than its breadth and the area of a rectangle is 54 metres squared
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Question 1053336: The sides of an equilateral triangle have the same length as the length of a rectangle. The length of the sides in the rectangle are 4 in longer than the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 6 in more than the perimeter of the triangle. Find the width of the rectangle.

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Question 1053288: how many feet of boarder will Mrs.Kohl need to purchase if the sides of a bulletin bourd measures 3 yards by 2 yards

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