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Question 1058618: A triangle: 9mm straight on top
2mm horizontal
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Question 1058642: I am planning a surprise reception for my newly married daughter. I need to know what the distance from corner to corner (diagonally) of the hall. The room measures 35' wide by 47' long.
Thank you
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Question 1058680:
A rectangular solid has a square base and a height of 4 cm. If the volume of the rectangular solid is 100 cm3, find the length and the width.
length = cm
width = cm

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Question 1058678:
A rectangular storage unit has a length of 4.2 m, a width of 2.5 m, and a height of 2 m. Find the volume of the storage unit.

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Question 1058679: A silo, which is in the shape of a cylinder, is 16 ft in diameter and has a height of 60 ft. The silo is one-third full. Find the volume of the portion of the silo that is not being used for storage. Round to the nearest hundredth.

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Question 1058676: In the figure below, r = 6 cm. Find the area. Give both the exact value and an approximation to the nearest hundredth.
cm2 (exact value)
cm2 (approximate value)

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Question 1058675: A tricycle tire has a diameter of 12 in. How many feet does the tricycle travel when the wheel makes seventeen revolutions? Round to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1058674: A fabric wall hanging is to fill a space that measures 5 m by 6.5 m. Allowing for 0.1 m of the fabric to be folded back along each edge, how much fabric must be purchased for the wall hanging?

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Question 1058705: The weight that can be safely supported by a 2 by 6 inch support beam varies inversely with its length. A builder finds that's support beam that is6 feet long will support 900 pounds. Find the weight that can be safely supported by a beam that is 18 feet long.
The weight that can be supported by the beam is ____lbs ?
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Question 1058755: An advertisement claims that a television has a 56 inch screen, which woulds be the length of the diagonal of the screen. If the screen is 40 inches long, find the height of the screen to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 1058818: I have 24 strands of Christmas lights extending from a round telephone pole that reach out to 15feet each. How far apart should the strands be staked on the ground to form a circle within each strand being 15 feet away from the pole.
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Question 1058921: The sides of a triangle are 6 cm 12 cm and 15 cm long. Determine the lengths to the nearest tenth of the segment formed when each angle bisector divides the opposite side.
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Question 1058980: A square is 11 inches on each side. A small square, x inches on each side, is cut out from each corner of the original square. Represent the area of the remaining portion of the square in the form of a polynomial function A(x).

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Question 1058944: there are 11 miles between Durham and chapel hill . twenty - eight miles separate chapel hill and Raleigh and Durham . Do these three cities form a right triangle >
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Question 1058941: Find the total cost of making a triangular sail that has a base dimension of 1515 feet and a height of 2020 feet if the price for making the sail is $20.5020.50 per square foot.
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Question 1059001: John is building a rectangular chicken coop in his backyard. He plans to use the existing fence as one side of the coop. John has 37 Feet of fencing.
Create a function that represents the area of the chicken coop.
What are the dimensions of the chicken coop that maximizes the area? What is the maximum area of the chicken coop?
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Question 1059045: The measure of one acute angle of a right triangle is 12 more than 3 times the measure of the other acute angle. Find the measure of each acute angle of the right triangle.
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Question 1059062: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 33 m less than twice the common length. The perimeter of the triangle is 1313 m. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 1059173: Find the volume of a cylinder with the base area of 36cm(square) and a height of 2.6 cm
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Question 1059200: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 3 m less than twice the common length. The perimeter of the triangle is 13 m. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 1059296: A bullettin board has an area of 1/12 square yard and a length of 1/3 yard the bulletin board is divided into 6 squares what's the width area and length of each section
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Question 1059452: 50 students in the seventh grade are trying to raise at least $2000 for sports supplies. They have already raised $750. How much should each student raise, on average, in order to meet the goal?
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Question 1059479: A farmer needs to enclose two adjacent rectangular pastures. How much fencing does the farmer need? 50 5/8 and 30 2/9 are the lengths of both of the pastures.
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Question 1059502: Suppose you know that two sides of a triangle are 11 cm and 20 cm. Between what two values must the third side fall? Justify your answer.
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Question 1059517: three large square pieces of turf are used to create a training field. The lengths of the side of the square pieces are 18 feet, 12 feet ,13 feet what is the total area needed
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Question 1059532: find the approximate answers for this exercise. the length of a rectangle is 3 in greater than the width. the area is 80 in^2. find the width and length.
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Question 1059555: A triangular pyramid has a slant height of 0.75 feet. The equilateral triangular base has a perimeter of 1.2 feet and an area of 0.6 square feet. Find the surface area.
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Question 1059564: What is the opposite side if the adjacent side is 12. 5 metres and the hypotonuse angl is 20�
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Question 1059595: Joe fenced in his garden using 60 feet of fencing. The length is 2 feet less than seven times the width. What are the die mentions of his garden?
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Question 1059687: i have to find x when the 2 leg of a triangle are x and x-7 while the hypnuse of x+1.

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Question 1059643: Which of the following would require finding the volume?. F) Buying enough carpet for the floor of your living room G) Buying a border to go around your bulletin board H) Buying enough sand to fill a sand box J) Buying a tablecloth large enougj to cover your table
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Question 1059826: A triangular peak on a backyard shed is trimmed with 3 pieces of 4 ft. molding. The next door neighbor decides to use 12 ft. of molding to add a decorative triangle to his shed. Are the two triangles congruent? Justify your answer
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Question 1059952: In a rhombus PQRS , angle Q = 108� calculate angle R , angle S , angle P
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Question 1060150: Evaluate sin� 172� - 15cos� 32� to four significant digits.
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Question 1060149: H2O is a molecule with a bent shape. The bond angle between the two adjacent hydrogen atoms is 104.5� and the distance between them is 1.516�. What is the length of the O-H bonds? Round your answer to 4 significant digits.

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Question 1060236: How do you solve 7 2/3 inches long and 3 inches wide
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Question 1060268: suppose you keep increasing the number of sides of the inscribed polygon what will happen to your approximation of 3.14?
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Question 1060247: The perimeter of a rectangle is 288 inches. The base of the rectangle is 60% of the height. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 1060278: The measure of the second angle of a triangle is 44 more than that of the first angle, and the third angle is 28 less than twice the second angle. Find the measures of all three angles.
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Question 1060332: An 8 meter piece of wood is to be cut into three sections. The longest section is twice the length of the shortest section. The third section is 6 meters longer then the shortest section. Determine the length of each section.
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Question 1060329: Jim's yard is in the shape of a rectangle. The length is five feet longer than twice the width. The perimeter of the yard is 400 feet. Determine the length and width of this yard.
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Question 1060503:

The radius is 3 inches more than the height. The volume is 16π cubic inches. Find the dimensions of the right circular cylinder described.

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