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Question 1053409: what is the answer to the question of what is the answer of one side being 7cm and the inside side being 6cm and there are 3 sides in total on the shape so what would the answer be to one decimal place?

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Question 1053609: With reference to the diagram, what is cos A?

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Question 1053665: A rectangle has the width x and its length is 10 greater than the width. For what values of x the area of the rectangle is greater or equal to 24. Please show me all calculations. If this can be graphed please show me as well.

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Question 1053727: The largest angle of the triangle is approximately 8 more than the smallest angle triangle.. The middle angle is approximately 7 more than the smallest angle.Find the measure of each angle.
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Question 1053948: A set of points with a definite starting and no definite end point is caLledrod a
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Question 1053977: a square rug an area of approximately 50 square feet. How long is each sides of the rug? (Round the answer to the nearest tenth of a foot.)

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Question 1053973: a girl made a model of circular building. the height of the model is 125 cm. If the length of the base is 50cm, find the radius of the model? With Working.
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Question 1054081: Tanya has a triangular garden bed in her back yard. The measure of the second angle is 60 degrees more than the measure of the first angle. The measure of the third angle is 20 degrees less than three times the measure of the first angle. Find the measures of the three angles. Start your work by defining the unknown quantities in terms of a variable.

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Question 1054152: The height of a triangle is 6 yards greater than the base. The are of the triangle is 216 square yards. Find the length of the base and the height of the triangle
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Question 1054231: A rectangular piece of cardboard 11 inches by 14 inches is made into a box by cutting identical squares from each corner and folding up the sides. If the bottom of the box turns out to have an area of 80 in^2, what size squares were cut from the corners?
The equation I am coming up with does not give me an answer that would fit.
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Question 1054244: Cindy wants to construct five rectangular dog training areas side by side, using a total of 600 ft of fencing. What should the overall width and length be to maximize the area of the five combined areas? What are the dimensions of each individual arena? What's the area of each arena?
I don't understand how to do the set up
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Question 1054275: If the sides of one equilateral triangle are equal to the altitude of another, what is the ratio of their areas?
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Question 1054038: The length of a rectangle is 4cm less than 6 times its width and its perimeter is 20cm ,find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 1054029: A rectangular parking lot has a perimeter of 364 feet. The length is 34 feet less than twice the width. Set up the equation and solve for the length of the lot
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Question 1054519: If a wire is First bent into the shape of a triangle each side of the triangle is 14 centimeters long then the wires on Matt and reshaped into a rectangle if the length of the rectangle is 15 centimeters what is its width?
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Question 1054435: A triangular poster is twice as long as its height. A rectangular banner is 3 inches longer than its width. Both the poster and the banner have areas of 648 square inches. What is the height and base of the poster? What is the length and width of the banner?
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Question 1054605: A diver jumped off of a diving board and into the water. The equation y=x^2-20x+64y=x2−20x+64 models her path into the water. How long was the diver under water?
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Question 1054678: A rectangular garden is three times as long as it is wide. If the area of the garden is 2523ft squared, find the length and width of the garden
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Question 1054674: How many circles of radius 5 cm can be cut from a piece of cartolina 63 cm by 78 cm? Thank you
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Question 1054617: Sara needs to make some brownies. she will use a 9x9x2 in pan for the brownies. she can get 16 brownies out of each batch. what are the dimensions of each brownie

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Question 1054782: A rectangle and an equilateral have the same perimeter. The length of the rectangle is twice its width. Each side of the triangle is 45m. Find the length of each side of the rectangle.
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Question 1054766: In a community garden (shown to the right) you want to plant and fence in a vegetable garden that is adjacent to your friend's garden. You have at most 56

ft of fence, and the fence must surround all four sides of your garden. What are the possible lengths of your garden?
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Question 1054786: Please help me solve this equation: X + 6X - 290 = 130
Question/directions: find the measure of each numbered angle.
The shape is a X with two acute angles on the side(which is what I'm looking for, they are equal.) and obtuse angles on the top and bottom which are equal as well. The total measure should be 360 with all angles added
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Question 1055129: A water tank is to contain 6 cubic meters. If its length is 2 meters. What is the height of the tank?
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Question 1055171: Ben wants to travel to his friend's house. He notices that on the map the scale says that inch is equal to 3 miles. On the map, he measures the distance to be 3.5 inches. How far away is his friend's house?
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Question 1055212: If a 41 ft ladder is placed against a building, so that the base is 9 ft away from the bottom of the building. How far off the ground will the top of the ladder reach?

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Question 1055211: Mary is making a rectangular banner. The banner is 60 in long and 45 in high. She wants to decorate it with a stripe going diagonally across the banner. How long will the stripe be
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Question 1055350: a land mass is roughly in the shape of a rectangle whose perimeter is 1,100 miles the width is 130 miles less than the length. find the length and the width

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Question 1055376: I am having trouble trying to gather how exactly to set up this problem. I tried mentally and drawing out what it could be asking if you could please help me.
George wants to use square pavers that are 6 inches on each side to completely surround his ower garden. The garden is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide. How many pavers should George buy?
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Question 1055475: A rectangular poster needs to have 2700 square centimeters of printed material surrounded by margins. The margins on the left and right edges need to be 4 cm thick, and the margins on the top and bottom edges need to be 3 cm thick. What should the dimensions of the overall poster be in order to minimize the total area?
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Question 1055553: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 41.1 . What is the width?
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Question 1055732: Suppose it takes you 100 seconds to walk around a circular garden. At this rate, about how long would it take you to walk straight through the garden along a diameter?

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Question 1055726: The width of a rectangle is 9ft more than 3 times the length. Find the dimensions of the rectangle of the perimeter is 50ft
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Question 1055726: The width of a rectangle is 9ft more than 3 times the length. Find the dimensions of the rectangle of the perimeter is 50ft
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Question 1055821: The width of an 18-sq rectangle is 5cm shorter than twice the length please symbolize and solve the rectangles dimensions
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Question 1055881: Q:Becky's horse Sid needs to eat 7 carrots for every mile he runs. How many carrots would he need to eat to go 75 miles ( round to whole )
A: 7x75=525 carrots
For every 10 carrots Sid eats he poops .7 pounds. If becky is charged 12 dollars for every 10 pounds to remove the poop, how much will it cost for Sid to run 1000 miles in removal fees?

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Question 1055871: An engineer wants to build a rectangular foundation that is divided into 5 sections as shown in the figure below. If she uses 5000 linear feet of material for the division, what is the maximum area enclosed by the foundation? Round your result to the nearest square foot. Width = x Length = (5000-6x)/2
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Question 1055948: A triangular support beam of the roof of a large warehouse has a perimeter of 72 meters. The first side is one-third of the second side. The third side is 19 meters shorter than the second side. What are the lengths of the three sides of the triangular support beam?
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Question 1055999: 2. To the nearest metre, a garden lawn is 15 metres long and 8 metres wide.
(a) The actual length of the lawn is �l� metres. Between what limits does l lie?
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Question 1056077: Refer to the figure below to calculate the height of a triangle that has a base of 10 feet and its area is 40 square feet. Answer the following questions: (a) What number is missing in the equation in Step 2? (b) What number is missing in the equation in Step 3? (c) What is the height of the triangle?

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