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Question 1077194: Every year a man is paid N$300 more than he was paid the previous year. If he receive N$15900 over a period of three years what was he paid in the first of three years
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Question 1077262: A room has an area of 456 square fee. One dimension is 5 feet more than the other. Find the dimension of the room.
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Question 1077269: What is the approximate largest circumference of a circular pond that could fit within a square walkway of sides 30 meters?
47 m
60 m
94 m
120 m
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Question 1077373: Carrie has a game that uses 20 tiles that are the same shape and the same size,20% of the tiles are rectangles,40% of the tiles are trapezoids the remainder of the tiles are hexagons how many are here
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Question 1077393: Which is larger, the volume of the prism or the volume of the pyramid?
The prism cube is 10 m x 10 m x 10 m.
The pyramid is a square pyramid.
The square Is 10 m x 10 m and it is 10 m high.

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Question 1077436: Children climb 8 ft to get to the top of a slide. The end of the slide is 1 ft above the ground and the silide rises at a 45 degree angle. If the slide makes a straight line from the top to the bottom, how far does a child travel diwn the slide? Round to the nearest foot.

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Question 1077405: A construction crew is extending the length of the center line on a highway. The length of the line starts out as 6 meters long, which is represented on a coordinate plane as the point (0,6). The crew works for 20 minutes and the line is now 17 meters long, which is represented as the point (20,17).
Complete the equation that represents the relationship between x, the number of minutes spent working, and y, the length of the line, in meters.
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Question 1077646: the base of a triangle is six more than its height. If the area of the triangle is 108 square meters, what are the dimensions of the triangle?
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Question 1077741: if the length of a rectangle is increased by 5cm and width increase by 1cm and its area decrease by 35cm2. if the length and width are increase by 5cm and 1 cm respectively, the area is increase by 64cm2, find the dimension of rectangle
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Question 1077820: In triangle ABC, the perpendiculars, AX BY and CZ drawn from the vertices A, B and C on the sides BC, CA and AB respectively meet at O. show that AO. OX = BO. OY = CO. OZ.

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Question 1077836: A train leaving from point A to point B is traveling 60 miles per hour . Train C is leaving point B to reach Point A is traveling 40 miles per hour. How apart are they exactly 1 hour before passing each other ?
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Question 1077835: In Rock Falls , the property owners pay 40% of the cost of sidewalks . How much exactly do the owners pay for 75 feet of sidewalk that costs 2.75 each per foot ?

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Question 1077918: The height of a door is 2.3 feet longer than its width, and its front area is 1626.8 square feet. Find the width and height of the door.
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Question 1077951: Find the appropriate height of the building of a wire is connected to the top of the building is 450 feet and the distance from the building to the wire is 200 feet

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Question 1078099: If there is a box and the area is 16 and someone walks diagnaly from one corner to the next one how far did he walk
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Question 1078099: If there is a box and the area is 16 and someone walks diagnaly from one corner to the next one how far did he walk
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Question 1078107: micha made a scale model of the empire state building. The building has an actual height of 381 meters. michas model used a scale in which 1 cm represents 50 meters. what is the height in centimeters of michas model?
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Question 1078088: Only boxes less than 3 1/2 feet wide will fit through a doorway. Which measurements show the widths of 3 boxes that will fit through the doorway?
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Question 1078105: a map uses the scale 3/4 of an inch represents 3 miles. if the actual distance between two cities is 25 miles, then what is the length on map?
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Question 1078153: If there is 28 meters and a width of 10 meters what is the distance around the edges of the sidewalk
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Question 1078167: You are holding a kite string in your hand. The angle of elevation from your hand to the kite is 57∘57∘and the distance to the kite is 300 feet. Your hand is 4 feet above the ground. How high is the kite? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 1078184: Tammy wants to decorate the outside of a circular mirror with a ribbon. The radius of the mirror is 12 inches. Which expression represents the circumference of the mirror in inches?

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Question 1078187: When a projector is placed 10 meters from a screen as shown, it produces an image 3 meters high. If the tallest image that the projector can produce without distortion is 4.5 meters high, what is the maximum distance the projector can be placed from the screen?

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Question 1078196: The pyramid is a square pyramid, measuring 21.5 feet on each of its base edges. The height of each of the triangular lateral face is 13.4 feet. Use this information to answer the following question.
How many square feet of red tin roof does each pillar contain? [Type your answer as a number. Do not round.]
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Question 1078129: the angle of elevation of the top of a building from a point 8cm,from its foot on level ground is 50.find the height of the buildinf to th nearest metre
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Question 1076886: Fatima observed that one angle of an isoceles triangle is 35 degrees greater than the other angle. Find the remaining unknown angles. Find the perimeter and area of the triangle.
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Question 1078226: The volume of a regular triangular prism is 240 sqrt 3 cu. in. and its altitude is 15 in. Find the side of the base.
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Question 1078272: A tin can of radius r and height h is produced by a company. If a new tin can i produced such that the height is twice the original height, and of the same volume, what should the radius be?
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Question 1078280: Four quadrants are inscribed within the square with the vertices of the squares as centers. If the shaded region in the figure is to be made the base of a column of a building which is 12 ft, find the volume and lateral surface area of the column.
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Question 1078337: a spherical ball is dropped into a cone shaped glass with dimensions shown. If the bottom of the ball is 2 inches above the vertex of the cone, what is the radius of the ball? The cone is 8 inches wide and 12 inches tall.
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Question 1078545: The angle of a depression from the top of a building height 30m of a car is 41�. Find the distance between the car and the top of the building.
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Question 1078625: a piece of copper with a volume of 8.25 cubic centimeters has a mass of 73.82 grams. a piece of iron with a volume of 5 cubic centimeters has a mass of 39.35 grams. which metal has the greater density?
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Question 1078657: A brand of uncooked spaghetti comes in a box that is a rectangular prism with a length of 11 inches, a width of 2 inches, and a height of 5
1
2
inches. What is the surface area?
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Question 1078726: The angle of depression of point X on the ground from the top of the hill is 61� 48. If the distance of the point from the hill is 35m, calculate the height of the hill.
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Question 1078644: how to calculate the depth of a patio
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Question 1078635: the united states has minted one dollar silver coins called the american eagle silver bullion coins since 1986. Each coin has a diameter of 40.6 millimeters and is 2.98 millimeters thick. the density of silver is 10.5 grams per cubic centimeter. what is the mass of an american eagle silver bullion coin to the nearest gram?
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Question 1078767: The angle of depression of a point X on the ground from the top of a hill is 61�48.If the distance of the point from the foot of the hill is 35m, calculate the height of the hill.
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Question 1078694: A window has the shape of a rectangle with a right isosceles triangle on top. If the area of the window is to be 3m^2, what dimentions of the rectangle and triangle will minimize the perimeter of the window? Round answers to the nearest tenth of a metre.
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Question 1078551: A rectangular page is to be used to contain 24 square inches of print. The top and bottom margins are 1.5 inches wide. The left and right side margins are 1 inch wide. What should the dimensions of the page be so that the least amount of paper is used?
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Question 1078592: if the four corners of a plot of ground were labeled A, B, C, D and the distance between A & B is 375' B & C 375" and C and D 375." How far is it from A to C?
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Question 1078968: Pat is planting a garden that will be 9' x 6'. She wants to add topsoil 1 foot deep over the entire garden. How many cubic feet of top soil must she Add?
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Question 1079012: what type of parallelogram is PQRS
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