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Question 1060516: A wire is attached to the top of a pole. The wire is 2 ft longer than the pole, and the distance from the wire on the ground to the bottom of the pole is 2 ft less than the height of the pole. Find the length of the wire and the height of the pole.
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Question 1060536: what is the perimeter and the area of the largest square that can be formed from rectangle WISH that has a perimeter of 56 and area of 187?
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Question 1060743: A rectangle has an area of 180 cm^2. When the length and the width are shortened by 1 cm each, the area is reduced by 27 cm^2. Find the new perimeter.
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Question 1060840: the actual height of a pole is 36 ft what would be the height of the pole on the paper if an artist used a scale of 1cm:6ft

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Question 1060874: There is a land that is 50 ft long and 40 ft wide.How many buildings could I fit if each building is 70 sq ft.
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Question 1060985: The length of a rectangle is four times its width.
If the perimeter of the rectangle is
60

in
, find its area.
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Question 1061001: a picture is one-third as tall as it is long. its 9 inches tall. if L represents the length of the picture on inches, what equation could you use to find the value of L
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Question 1061068: A path is 130m long to the nearest 10m
Write an inequality to show the possible lengths
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Question 1061081: The perimeter of a quadrilateral (four-sided polygon) is 46 inches. The longest side is three�times as long as the shortest side. The other two sides are equally long and are 2 inches longer than the shortest side. Find the length of all four sides.
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Question 1061172: you have 60 yards of fencing to enclose a rectangular region. Find the dimensions of the rectangle that maximize the enclosed area. What is the maximum area?
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Question 1061051: The width of a rectangle is 6cm less than twice the length. If the area is to be 20cm^2, then what is its length? Show all work.
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Question 1061318: A playground slide platform is 6ft above ground. If the slide is 8 ft long and the end of the slide is 1ft above ground,what does the slide make with the ground? Give your answer to the nearest degree and show your your work.
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Question 1061382: A brick 5cm thick is placed against a wheel for a stop the horizontal distance of face of brick stopping the wheel from the point where the wheel touches the ground is 15cm . what's the radius of the wheel?
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Question 1061477: Twice the sum of a number and 3 is the same as 1 subtracted from the number. Find the number

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Question 1061387: Allen is building a tennis court in his backyard. He poured a rectangle concrete slab and surrounded it with 360 feet of fencing. If the width of the slab is half the slab's length, find the dimensions of the slab.
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Question 1061572: an isosceles triangle with an angle of 10 degrees was dilated by a factor of 0.5. Which must be true about the resulting triangle?

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Question 1061533: You have an 84-inch long slide to attach to a playground. If the height of the tower where you attach the top of a slide is 80 inches, how many inches away from the base of the tower should you dig a hole to anchor the bottom of the slide?

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Question 1061657: How many fence panels do you have to buy to fence your backyard? The yard is 40 feet by 25 feet. Each panel is 30 inches long.
How do i figure out the answer to this question? I know i have to figure out the perimeter which is 130 feet but where do i go from there how do i figure out how many 30" panels it will take to fence the 130 ft perameter?
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Question 1061945: The length of a rectangle is
3 m
less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is
44 m2
. Find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 1062061: A rectangular room must have a perimeter of 20�feet and an area of at least 20�square feet. Describe the possible widths of the room. Round your answers to the nearest tenth of a foot
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Question 1062133: A rectangular gym has an area of 3x2 ft2. The school decides to add a new weight room. The total area of the gym and the weight room is
(3x2 + 500) ft2.
What does the constant term represent in terms of this problem?
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Question 1062163: A child designs a flag in the shape of a rhombus, as shown in the diagram below. Which expression can be used to determine the side length of the rhombus?
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Question 1062198:
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Question 1062234: A county in the shape of a rectangle with length-to-width ratio 1.32 has an area of 473 square miles. What is the largest distance from one corner of the county to the other?
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Question 1062287: A 60-ft long barn is 40 ft wide. The sides of the barn rise straight up for 10 feet. Then, the roof is slanted on both sides so that the 16 foot tall roof runs down the length of the barn. How much grain can fit inside the entire barn?
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Question 1062423: The largest possible regular pentadecagon (15 sides) is cut from a paper circle of radius 18 cm. How much paper is left over?
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Question 1062436: A drawing of a company logo is 4 inches wide and 5inches long. If the drawing is enlarged so that it is 12.5 inches long and the original proportions remain unchanged, how many inches wide will the enlarged drawing be?
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Question 1062478: If side of square decreased by 3times it's area decreased by?
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Question 1062474: The area of a square is decreased by 80%. By what percent did the perimeter decrease?
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Question 1062609: The radii of two cones are in the ratio 5:7 calculate
1. Area ratio
2. volume ratio
3. if the volume of the smaller cone is 35cm3, find the volume of the larger one.
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Question 1062658: A right triangle is formed with vertices at the points (7,-2), (19,7), and (-5,14). What percent of the triangle's area lies in the fourth quadrant?
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Question 1062684: How much water should be mixed to a 500 mL of 30% solution of alcohol to have a resulting concentration of 20%?
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Question 1062685: The two congruent sides of an isosceles triangle are measured 25cm each.If the height of the triangle is 15cm,what is its area?
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Question 1062686: Half of the class scored 90 in the test.One-third of the class scored 87.One-sixth of the class scored 89.What is the average of the entire class?
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Question 1062694: The sum of m(angle)V and m(angle)W is 90 degrees. If sin W=4sqarerootof2 divided by 7, what is cos V
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Question 1062687: Half of the class scored 90 in the test.One-third of the class scored 87.One-sixth of the class scored 89.What is the average of the entire class?
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Question 1062697: Which best describes the relationship between the lines with equations 5x-7y=2 and -35x-25y=5?
A. Perpendicular
B. Neither parallel nor perpendicular
C. Parallel
D. Same line
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Question 1062688: The two congruent sides of an isosceles triangle are measured 25cm each.If the height of the triangle is 15cm,what is its area?
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Question 1062695: Write the equation for 5x^2+5y^2-40x+30y-120=0 in standard form. Show work.
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