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Question 1081112: a green cylinder has a scale factor of 7:1 to an orange cylinder. If the volume of the orange cylinder is 8m^3 what is the volume of the green one, in the same units
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Question 1081382: Peter has 16m of fencing to enclose a garden. What is the area of the
garden if it is rectangular and each diagonal is as short as possible?
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Question 1081184: The sum of the areas of two unequal lots is 5200 sq. meters. If the lots were adjacent to each other, they would require 320 meters of fence to enclose the combined formed by them. Find the dimensions of each lot.
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Question 1081443: If the pool is to be 24 ft on each side, what is the length of one side of the hot tub?�
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Question 1081315: A four-sided sand box has one right angle, two side lengths 3ft, and two side lengths 4ft. What geometric shape best describes the shape of the sand box?
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Question 1081476: Please answer this within an hour!!!!!
the width of a box is 4 inches more thm the height. the length is the difference of 9 inches and the height. the volume of the box is 180 cubic inches. what are all the possible dimensions for the box?
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Question 1081491: the width of a box is 4 inches more thm the height. the length is the difference of 9 inches and the height. the volume of the box is 180 cubic inches. what are all the possible dimensions for the box?
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Question 1081551: the width of a box is 4 inches more then the height. the length is the difference of 9 inches and the height. the volume of the box is 180 cubic inches. what are all the poswible dimensions for the box?
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Question 1081559: the length of a rectangular garden is 6 inches more than its width this area of the garden is 91 square inches find the dimensions of the garden
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Question 1081136: If the arc of a doorway arch is 60cm high and the width is 200cm what would be the circumstance of the circle that would contain that arch ?
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Question 1081601: a rectangular hot tub has a volume of 5000 cubic feet. The area of the base is 1000 square feet. How deep is the hot tub?
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Question 1081585: In order to sell a piece of land and owner must indicate the boundary of the property and acreage of the land. If you have a composite (made up of more than one shape) piece of land, explain how to find the length (perimeter) of the boundary and the acreage (area) of the property.
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Question 1081663: A manufacture produce windows with a rectangular clear glass part with length of 1,25m and breadth of 1m plus a semicircular stained glass part with
radius of 0,5m
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Question 1081662: Peter wants to put gravel on a circular path in his backyard, which is shown as the shaded region in the diagram.

What is the area of the circular path? Use a calculator and round your answer to the nearest tenth of a square yard.
Answer: square yards
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Question 1081660: A rectangular box is 6 inches 6 inches tall and 7 inches longs what is the smallest circular opening in which the box will fit

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Question 1081759: a mpumalsnga farmer needs to buils a rectangular enclosure with 50m of fencing on one of the sides of the enclisure there is a wall find the dimension of the enclosure which will give the maximum area
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Question 1081789: A rug is shaped like a rectangle whose perimeter is 112 ft. The length is 3 times as long as width. Find the length and the width.
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Question 1081834: If the circumstance of the base is 350ft. What is that volume of the mountain?
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Question 1081984: An engineer is planning a new water pipe installation. The circular pipe has a diameter of d=20cm
What is the area A of the circular cross section of this pipe?
Give your answer in terms of pi.
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Question 1082001: How would you measure a perimeter of a field/farm with its boundary crossing a pond?

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Question 1082011: A rectangular make-up case is 3 in. high & has a volume of 90 in.^3. The width is 1 in. less than the length. Find the length & width of the case.
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Question 1082006: The top of a kitchen island is a piece of granite that has an area of 15ft^2. It is 3.5 ft longer than it is wide. Find the dimensions of the surface.
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Question 1082170: screen size of a television is measured diagonally from one corner to another. if franky buys a 40-inch flat screen television that is 31 inches wide, what is the height of the screen
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Question 1082171: Jimmy is installing a zip-line from his mansion on the hill to the coffee shop in town below. If the house sits atop a 550ft hill and the angle of depression is 15 degrees, what will the length of the zip-line be?
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Question 1082174: A pastor is standing 50ft outside of his church looking up at the cross. The angle of elevation from the pastor to the base of the cross is 20 degrees and from the pastor to the top of the cross 40 degrees. How tall is the cross?
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Question 1082173: Jack is on one side of a 150ft wide canyon and Jill is on the other. Jack and Jill can both see the trail guide at an angle of depression of 50 degrees. How far are they from the trail guide?
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Question 1082207: The net of a prism is shown on the coordinate plane. What is the surface area of the prism?
A) 2 in2
B) 4 in2
C) 6 in2
D) 8 in2
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Question 1082172: Tom, dick, and harry are camping in their tents. If the distance between tom and dick is 153 feet, the distance between tom and harry is 201 feet, and the distance between dick and harry is 175 feet, what are the angles between dick, harry and tom?
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Question 1082332: a wire is 12 ft long is cut into two pieces. one piece is to be bent into a square and the other into a circle?how should the wire be cut so that the combined area is as small or large as possible?

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Question 1082455: A can is 4 inches wide and 8 inches tall. To the nearest whole number, what is the area of a label that wraps around the can of the label is 3 inches shorter that the height of the can?
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Question 1082485: A person plans to use 420 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden. What dimensions of the rectangle would give the maximum area? What is that area?
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Question 1082491: A farmer plans to use 220 feet of fencing and a side of her barn to enclose a rectangular garden. What dimensions of the rectangle would give the maximum area? What is that area?
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Question 1082576: the recipe says I need exactly four cups of sugar and I only have two containers. One holds five cups and the other holds three cups of sugar. Using these containers how can I measure exactly four cups of sugar?
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Question 1082857: The circumference of circle P is 800 mm, the circumference of circle Q is 200 cm, and the circumference of circle R is 4 m. What is the sum of the distances around each circle?
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Question 1083068: In order to triple the area of a square, the new side lengths must be equal to the old side lengths multiplied by:
F) Square root of 3.
G) 3
H) 9
J) Square root of 27.
K)27
I selected "9", but the answer is "F", the square root of 3.
This is an SAT practice question. I am trying to figure how the answer is F.
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Question 1083157: A line has a y-intercept of 8 and an x-intercept of -12. what is the shortest distance from the origin to this line, to the nearest tenth?
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Question 1083256: A designer of decorative tiles wants to have some custom tiles made in the shape of a rhombus, with one diagonal twice the length of the other. If each side of a tile is to be 16 inches long, what will be the length of its shorter diagonal, to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
Select one:
a. 7.16 in
b. 28.62 in
c. 14.31 in
d. 8.00 in
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Question 1083280: A designer of decorative tiles wants to have some custom tiles made in the shape of a rhombus, with one diagonal twice the length of the other. If each side of a tile is to be 19 inches long, what will be the length of its shorter diagonal, to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
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Question 1083434: Please help me solve this problem, I do not know whether the line between the two points is a chord or a diameter.
On a coordinate plane, a circle passes through the points (x, y) and (-x, y). Which of the following represents the area of the circle?

A. 4πx
B. πx^2/4
C. πx^2
D. 4x^2
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Question 1083538: The area is 36feet what is the lenght
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Question 1083551: The combined land area of the countries A and B is
175175,973
square kilometers. Country A is larger by
373373
square kilometers. Determine the land area of each country
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Question 1083627: An isosceles right triangle has sides that are x + 2 units long and a hypotenuse that is 8 units long. What is the length of the missing sides of the triangle?
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