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Question 1074063: An air conditioning system can circulate 530 cubic feet of air per minute.
How many cubic yards of air can it circulate per minute?
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Question 1074063: An air conditioning system can circulate 530 cubic feet of air per minute.
How many cubic yards of air can it circulate per minute?
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Question 1074124: the length of a rectangle is 2 less than 3 times the width .if the width is tripled while the length is decreased by 2,the new perimeter is 34 more than half the original perimeter.find the original dimensions.
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Question 1074244: Twice the sums of the width and the length of a desk top is 102 inches. The difference between 3 times the width and twice the length is 8 inches. Find the dimension of the desk top.
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Question 1074380: jennifer's pool is 8m deep and has a radius of 5m. the pool is half full....
how many mL of water is in the pool
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Question 1074380: jennifer's pool is 8m deep and has a radius of 5m. the pool is half full....
how many mL of water is in the pool
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Question 1074379: jennifer's pool is 8m deep and has a radius of 5m. the pool is half full....
how many mL of water is i the pool
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Question 1074435:
If the diameter of the garden is 62 meters and the measure of A is 126�, what will be the approximate area of the fountain?
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Question 1074339: If the perimeter of a rectangle is 2/5 that of a square, while it's area is only 1/6 of the same square. If the perimeter of the square is 30metres, calculate its length and breadth
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Question 1074316: Melinda has a scrap piece of fabric with one angle measuring 52�. If she needs to find a complementary angle, what angle measure does she need to cut the next piece?
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Question 1074475: A rectangular patio measures 12 feet X 15 feet. It has a circular fire pit in the middle which has a diameter of 6 feet. The patio is being paved with bricks. How many square feet will need to be paved?
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Question 1074521: The ratio of the corresponding sides of two similar triangles is 7:5. Find the ratio of their perimeters.
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Question 1074560: David has available 3600 yards of fencing and wishes to enclose a rectangular area.
(a) Express the area A of the rectangle as a function of the width W of the rectangle.
(b) For what value of W is the area largest?
(c) What is the maximum area?
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Question 1074599: the width of a rectangular shaped deck is 7 meters shorter than its length . If the area of the deck is 44 square meters, then what are the dimension ?
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Question 1074624: A graphic artist tool include a 30 60 90 degree triangle has length of 10 inches to the nearest inch how long are the legs of the triangle
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Question 1074545: Chen is painting his office wall and ceiling. The office is 4m long,5.5 m wide and 3 m high. In has a doorway 1m by 2m and a square window with side length 0.5m. what is the area to be painted?
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Question 1074765: four of the following square signs are to be painted what total area will be covered with white painted?
b) what total area will be covered with grey paint?
the measure is 4.0 cm and is a rectangle
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Question 1074836: Kenji and Isaac each opened a savings account on the same day. Kenji started by putting $108 in his account, and he will deposit an additional $214 each week. Isaac made an initial deposit of $113, and he will add $209 more each week. Eventually, Kenji and Isaac will each have the same amount saved. What is that amount? How many weeks will that take?

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Question 1074835: The perimeter of a soccer field is 296 meters. It is 93 meters long. How wide is it?

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Question 1074845: The area of a rectangular red sticker is 98 square millimeters. The perimeter is 42 millimeters. What are the dimensions of the sticker?

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Question 1074840: Monica flew home from vacation with a heavy bag. With the first airline she flew, Monica had to pay $17 to check her bag, plus $17 for every kilogram that her bag was over the weight limit. The next flight was with another airline that had the same weight limit. Monica had to pay $19 per kilogram that her bag was over the weight limit, in addition to the checked bag fee of $15. By coincidence, the fees ended up being the same with both airlines. How far over the weight limit was the bag? How large was each airline's fee?

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Question 1074842: In Anthony's classroom there are red chairs, yellow chairs, and blue chairs. There are 7 red chairs. There are 3 times as many yellow chairs as red chairs, and there are 6 fewer blue chairs than yellow chairs. How many chairs are there in Anthony's classroom?

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Question 1074850: Yoshi is going to send some flowers to his wife. Belmont Florist charges $2 per rose, plus $33 for the vase. Priya's Flowers, in contrast, charges $3 per rose and $25 for the vase. If Yoshi orders the bouquet with a certain number of roses, the cost will be the same with either flower shop. What would the total cost be? How many roses would there be?

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Question 1074851: Finn went to a pizza place with 2 friends. They ordered a large mushroom pizza for $12.30 and a garden salad for $3.90. They also got 2 sodas for $1.45 each. The tax came to $1.05. How much change should they have received from $25.00?

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Question 1074852: Band students are tested on, and required to pass, a certain number of scales during the year. As of today, Abe has passed 8 scales, whereas his friend Frank has passed 2 of them. Going forward, Abe has committed to passing 1 scale per week, and Frank has committed to passing 4 per week. At some point soon, the two friends will have passed the same number of scales. How long will that take? How many scales will that be?

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Question 1074855: Ronald bought 18 cartons of ice cream and 7 cartons of yogurt. Each carton of ice cream cost $3 and each carton of yogurt cost $2. How much more did Ronald spend on ice cream than on yogurt?

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Question 1074857: Tile manufacturer to make a title in the shape of where one diagonal if you twice the length of the other diagonal. What should the length of the be in order to make a tile with sides 7 cm long. Round to the nearest hundredths.

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Question 1074861: The base of a triangle exceeds the height by 8 feet. If the area is 42 square feet, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 1074876: What radius does a circle inscribed in a 6x8 rectangle have
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Question 1074858: Bonnie wants to buy a jump rope that costs $5, a board game that costs $20, and a playground ball that costs $9. She has saved $10 from her allowance, and her uncle gave her $7. How much more money does Bonnie need to buy the jump rope, the game, and the ball?

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Question 1074909: Mr. Alvarez wants to make a gate that is three feet wide and five feet high.he needs to cut a board to nail across the diagonal of the gate. How long a board does he need?
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Question 1074899: A team of 18 soccer players needs to choose a captain and co-captain. State of permutation or combination & find number of possibilities .
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Question 1074908: The landscape designer in question 6 also wants to plant a border along the perimeter of the park on all three sides. What is the perimeter

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Question 1074912: A cylinder shaped hole is being dug in order to plant a tree. The hole is 6 m deep and 8 m wide. How much sand is required to fill in the hole? (use 3.14 for pi)
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Question 1074935: The area of a triangle is 30 square cm and it's base is 10 cm. What is the height in cm of the triangle
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Question 1074936: The distance around the edge of a circular pond is 88 metres. The radius, in metres is?
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Question 1074936: The distance around the edge of a circular pond is 88 metres. The radius, in metres is?
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Question 1074941: Emily completely fills a container with 6 cubes. Each cube has an edge length of 3 centimeters. The container is in the shape of a right rectangular prism. What is the volume of the container in cubic centimeters?
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Question 1074961: The perimeter of a triangle is 15x+9. What is the length of each side?
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Question 1074985: how far up on a wall of a building will a 10 meter ladder reach if the foot of the ladder is 1.25 meters from the wall? sketch the situation and then explain your answer by referring to the Pythagorean theorem.
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Question 1074992: two similar trapezoids have heights of 8 centimeters and 12 centimeters. If the area of the smaller trapezoid is 112 square centimeters, what is the area of the larger trapezoid in square centimeters?
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Question 1075006: You are putting hexagon-shaped tiles on a horizontal path through the garden. The tiles will be placed as in the diagram. If the path is 12 feet long, how many tiles will it take to cover the path?
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Question 1075022: The path of a satellite orbiting the earth causes the satellite to pass directly over two tracking stations A and B, which are 65 mi apart. When the satellite is on one side of the two stations, the angles of elevation at A and B are measured to be 87.0� and 84.2�, respectively. (Round your answers to the nearest mile.)
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Question 1075047: A piece of wire is 8 inches long. The wire is cut into two pieces and then each piece is bent into a square. Find the length of each piece if the sum of the areas of these squares is to be 2 square inches
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