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Question 1072156: Two athletes are jogging in the same direction along an exercise path. After x minutes the first athletes distance in miles from a parking lot is given by 1/4x and the second athletes distance is given by 1/11x +7.
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Question 1072223: a parking lot is designed with slanted spaces. What would the value of x need to be i order for the two sides of the parking space to be parallel
(2x+6)
74
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Question 1072240: A chipmunk standing 75 feet from the base of a tree, spots an eagle on one of the tree's limbs. The eagle is 100 feet above the chipmunk on the limb. At what angle do the chipmunk's eyes look up to spot the eagle?
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Question 1072245: an offshore ocean drilling rig measures 250 feet long by 244 feet wide. How much space on the ocean floor does the oil rig require

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Question 1072002: Suppose there was a pool shaped like a right trapezoidal prism. The bottom is a trapezoid as
shown below with the longer base being 24 feet, the shorter base being 16 feet and the height
being 12 feet. If the depth of the pool is 4 feet, find the volume of the pool in cubic feet.

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Question 1072450: erin is buying floor tile to put in a room 10ft. x 15ft. she has chosen tiles that are 18in. by 18in. how many tiles will she need?
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Question 1072684: if a tree 28 meters tall cast a shadow 32 meters long ,what is the angle of elevation of the sun to the nearest degree.

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Question 1072684: if a tree 28 meters tall cast a shadow 32 meters long ,what is the angle of elevation of the sun to the nearest degree.

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Question 1072676: The area of rectangle is 12cm.the lengths of its sudes are natural numbers.then wat is perimeter of rectangle?
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Question 1072724: A circular concrete patio has a circumference of about 1,400 feet. A gardener walks directly across the patio along a radius at a rate of 1.5 feet per second. How long does it take him to get from the edge of the patio to the plant at the center?

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Question 1072600: Randol was flying a kite. The 59 ft long kite makes a 24� angle with the ground, but got stuck in a tree. To keep the string from getting tangled, Randol put it under a rock 34 ft away from the tree. Randol learned that in order to get the kite out of the tree, the ladder must make a 75� angle with the ground and meet the kite. How long is the ladder?
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Question 1072794: A diagonal of a parallelogram is 44.32 cm long and forms angles of 30 degrees and 33 degrees with the sides. Find the lengths of its sides

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Question 1072813: a circular garden has an area of 50 meter square.what is the area of a square that has the same perimeter as the garden?
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Question 1072902: A rectangle is 10mm longer than its width and its permiter is 52mm.Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1072887: A wire is run between the tips of two poles. One pole is 23 ft taller than the other pole. The poles are 37 ft apart. How long does the wire need to be to reach between the two poles?
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Question 1072900: Find the angles of a triangle if 1 angle is 1/4 the second and the third is the sum og its two.
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Question 1072904: If you build a deck in the shape of an equilateral triangle with a height of 27ft, how long is one side of the deck?
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Question 1072989: A business park has several office spaces for rent. Each office is in the shape of a right triangle. If one side of the office is 11 feet long and the hypotenuse is 15 feet long, what is the length of the other side? Round to the NEAREST TENTH.

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Question 1073045: I tried subtracting 12 from 100 and then using the formula for the area of a circle solve it but I couldn't find the answer so I'm not sure what I was supposed to do or if I was doing it wrong.
Question: The figure below shows a circular garden surrounded by a circular drive. The outside circle of the drive has a diameter of 100 meters and the drive has a uniform width of 12 meters. Which of the following is closest to the area, in square meters, of the garden?
A. 240
B. 310
C. 4500
D. 7900
E. 18000
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Question 1073062: You just had a pool installed that has dimensions 10 feet by 24 feet by 4 feet. You want to install a cement patio all the way around the pool that extends the same distance around every side of the pool. A cement truck holds enough cement to cover 810 square feet at a 4-inch depth. If you don't want to have to pay for a second truck, what is the widest you can make the patio around your new pool?
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Question 1073090: THe measure of the obtuse angle in the isosceles triangle is two an a half times the measure of one base angle. Write and solve a system of linear equations to find the measures of all the angles.
THe image provided had a triangle with y to the power of zero at the top and
an x to the power of 0 in each bottom corner.
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Question 1073063: The diameter of the bike's tires is 2.5 feet. How many revolutions of the tires does it take to travel 1 mile? 1 mile = 5,280 feet. Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 1073122: If i try to put a 10ft plank of wood in a 9ft by 9ft cube room and it dose not fit, Is the plank to big or is the room to small?
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Question 1073122: If i try to put a 10ft plank of wood in a 9ft by 9ft cube room and it dose not fit, Is the plank to big or is the room to small?
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Question 1073181: A rectangular Garden has dimensions of 100 feet by 10 feet next season the garden is decreased to 2/5 of its size what is the scale of the new drawing
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Question 1073175: You just had a pool installed that has dimensions 10 feet by 24 feet by 4 feet. You want to install a cement patio all the way around the pool that extends the same distance around every side of the pool. A cement truck holds enough cement to cover 810 square feet at a 4-inch depth. If you don't want to have to pay for a second truck, what is the widest you can make the patio around your new pool?
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Question 1073214: A parking lot has the shape of a rectangle with two isosceles right triangles (one on each end). What is the area of the parking lot if the rectangle's dimensions are 45 ft by 100ft?
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Question 1073184: I am given a trapezoid, BARN, the measure of angle B is 60 degrees. The measure of angle A is 5x-15. If the measure of angle N is 3x-5, determine the measure of angle N and angle R.
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Question 1073275: A rectangular picture has a height(length) that is five-sevenths of its width. Its area is 140 square inches. What are the dimensions of the picture.

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Question 1073557: For every real number x,x^2>=x correct the statement

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Question 1073586: 3)�Find the height of a triangle�if it's�area�is 22 cm� and its base is 15 cm ?

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Question 1073614: 11X11=4
22X22=16
44X44=?

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Question 1073740: Given a side length of 18 inches, find the height of a stop sign rounded to the nearest tenth
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Question 1073872: How do you find the area of a mural that is 1 3/4 yards long and 1 1/4 yards high?

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Question 1073968: A painter has a 4L can of paint. she needs to paint the outside of a cylinder standing on the ground...... The cylinder stands 1m tall and has a diameter of 20cm. Does she have enough paint? Explain!
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Question 1073974: `A painter has a 4L can of paint. she needs to paint the outside of a cylinder standing on the ground...... The cylinder stands 1m tall and has a diameter of 20cm. Does she have enough paint? Explain!''.
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Question 1073975: a rectangle has dimensions 9 1/4 in. by 15in what is the area of one of the triangles
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Question 1073937: A cross section is taken of a standard lampshade. Which of the following could Not be the shape of the cross section?
a) triangle
b) circle
c) oval
d) trapezoid
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