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Question 1067741: I need major help on this question! The height of a ramp is 11 inches and the length of its slanted side is 61 inches. What is the length of the base of the ramp?
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Question 1067713: Of the 100 students enrolled at the dance studio, 50 take ballet
and 24 take tap dancing. Eight of the students who take ballet
also take tap dancing. If a student at the studio is chosen at
random, find the probability that they take ballet, if it is
known that they do not take tap dancing. I already got that
50-8=42. Now I am stumped.
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Question 1068042: a TVs size is described by the length of the diagonal across the screen. If 2 inches equals 5.08 cm what is the diagonal length in the centimeters of a 55 inch TV
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Question 1068109: If JO = 15.2 and PO = 28,find PJ
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Question 1068027: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is four times its base. If B is the base of the triangle, express the area of the triangle A as a function of B.
(A) A= 2b^2
(B) A= (sqrt(3) b^2) /2
(C) A= sqrt(3) b^2
(D) A= 2 sqrt(15) b^2
(E) A = (sqrt(15)b^2)/2
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Question 1068108: Question:
One-fifth of the width and one-fourth of the length of a rectangular cardboard is cut off. What part of the original cardboard is the area of the remaining piece?
a. 30% of the original area
b. 40% of the original area
c. 50% of the original area
d. 60% of the original area

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Question 1068074: what is the greatest number of whole 4-inch by 6-inch note cards that can be cut from a 25-inch by 28-inch sheet of poster board of every cut must be made parallel to a side of the poster board? No taping or gluing is allowed.
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Question 1067985: Square ABCD has area of 320 square units. Points K, L, M, N are midpoints of the sides of ABCD, P is the point of intersection of KC and BN , and Q is the point of intersection of AM and BN . Find PQ.
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Question 1068175: The perimeter of a triangle is
67 centimeters. If two sides are equally long and the third side is
10 centimeters longer than the others, find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 1066568: A goat is tethered to a corner of a regular hexagonal house which is in the middle of a grassy plain. The hexagon measure ten feet on a side. The rope stretches half way around the hexagon. Find the area of grass that the goat can reach.
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Question 1068233: Im trying to help a friend solve this problem n our homework, but i dont know how to solve it myself. can you help?
a rhombus has a perimeter of 80 inches. the longer diagonal has a length of 32 inches. why does the shorter diagonal have to be 24 inches?
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Question 1068395: I need help answering this geometry question: Suppose the slope of a roof is 2/5. If the height of the roof at its tallest point is 13 ft, what is the total width of the roof?
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Question 1068440: A triangle whose three sides are 20,30,40. A horse is tied at one corner of triangle. The rope is 7m long . What will be the area travelled by horse.
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Question 1068476: Dean needs 60 inches of wood to build a rectangular picture frame. The length l of the frame is twice its width w. Three of these equations give the correct value for w. Which equation does NOT?

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Question 1068557: the cost of a long-distance phone call is $0.41 for the first minute and $0.32 for each additional minute. if the total charge for a long-distance call is $5.21, how many minutes was the call?
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Question 1068701: From the balcony 21 m up in building A, a person looks up at the top of a taller building across the street. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 46 degrees from the balcony. The angle of depression to the base of the building across the street is 51 degrees. What is the height of the taller building across the street?
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Question 1067052: Mark has pairs of pants in three different colors,blue,black and brown.He has 5 colored shirts: a white,a red,and the rest are of different colors.What is the probability that she will wear a blue or a red shirt?
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Question 1069034: A rectangular floor is 6 yards long and 4 yards wide. What is the area of the floor in square feet. Include the correct unit
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Question 1069036: A rectangular floor is 21 feet long and 9 feet wide. What is the area of the floor in square yards?
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Question 1069100: The base of a traingle exceeds the height by 4 feet. If the area is 58.5 square feet, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 1069080: Six people A,B,C,D,E and F were sitting around a circular table . D sat between A and B . E sat to the right of C ,
but not to the left of A . E and F sat between B and C . Who sat to the immediate left of F , and who sat to the immediate left of C ?
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Question 1069244: If the length of rhombus is 13 cm and the one diagonal is 24 cm . what is the area of the rhombus
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Question 1069319: each leaf of a double leaf draw bridge is 120 feet long. a ship that is 100 feet wide needs to pass through the bridge. what is the minimum angle that each leaf of the bridge should be opened to ensure that the ship will fit?
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Question 1069459: If each side of a square be increased by 10% the percentage increase in area is
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Question 1069394: the height of the building where the wire is attached is 70 feet based on the angle measure in the figure ,which of the following to the value of x
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Question 1069464: Tina wants to put a gazebo in her yard in the shape of a regular octagon. How much area of the foundation will
not be covered by the gazebo?
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Question 1069481: The area of the circle that can be inscribed in a square of side 6 cm in
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Question 1069522: hi I am having some difficulties with this...
One base of a trapezoid is 3 inches longer than 4 times the other base. Find the lengths of the bases if the trapezoid is 8 inches high and has an area of 192 inches. Thank you!!!
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Question 1069573: Bill rows his boat at 10 miles per hour. He rowed 20 miles down a stream and then rowed back to his starting point the stream is flowing at 2 mikes per hour how many hours and minutes did it take him
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Question 1069673: If x*y = xy + x + y, solve the equations
a) x*3 = 19
b) (x*3)+(2*x)=40
c) x*x =48
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Question 1069717: A rectangular lot is 80 x 296 ft. Find the length of the diagonal and the angle it makes with the longest side ?
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Question 1069750: Todd uses 21 white tiles and some black tiles to make a mosaic.the mosaic has a total area of 144 square centimeters. Each tile has an area of 3 square centimeters. How many black tiles did Todd use?
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Question 1069778: A new cylindrical tank will be installed in a pre-existing rectangular channel measuring 10 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 40 feet deep. The tank has a diameter of 42 inches and is 40 feet deep. To keep the new tank in place, soil will be dumped 20 feet high in the space between the tank and the rectangular channel.
A) How many cubic inches of space are in the cylinder? 384.65 cubic inches
B) How many cubic yards of space are in the rectangular channel before the installation or inclusion of the tank/soil? 88.88 cubic yards
C) How many cubic feet of backfill material will you need to fill the space between the tank and the rectangular channel if you were to dump the backfill material 20 feet high? 1185.76 cubic feet

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Question 1069872: If I have 130" length and want to add 4" lines every 20" how many 4" lines would I have.
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Question 1069884: A circular mirror is surrounded by a square metal frame. The radius of the mirror is 2x. The side length of the metal frame is 10x. What is the area of the metal frame
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Question 1070050: The design of the garden path in the figure below uses stone pieces shaped as squares with a side length of 10 in. Find the length of the path.
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Question 1070101: An engineer creates a model using a right circular cylinder with a diameter of 5 centimeters and a length of 7.5 centimeters. Approximate the volume of the model. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a cubic centimeter.
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Question 1070117: The length of a rectangular gym is 48m and it's breath is 10m. A boy ran around the gym once. How far did he run?

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Question 1069949: The length of a football field is 120 yd. The width of the football field is 50 yd.

Which is the correct unit of measurement to use when figuring out how much rope is needed to surround the field?

A.
yd

B.
yd squared

C.
yd cubed
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Question 1070282: A lot is 50 m by 42 m. A house 27 m by
8 m is built on the lot. How much area is left over?
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