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Question 1095218: The sum of two angles is 180. Their difference is 70�. Find the angles.
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Question 1095221: The sum of the two angles is 180�. Their difference is 70�. Find the angles.
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Question 1095216: The sum of two angles is 180�. The difference is 70�. Find the angles.
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Question 1095262: you are standing at c. 8 feet from a silo. A is the center of the circular base of the silo. the distance to point of tangency is 16 feet What is the radius of the silo
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Question 1095236: Sand is piled into a right circular cone with a diameter of 12 feet and height of 8 feet. An additional 200 cubic feet of sand is added uniformly so that the cone of sand has the same ratio of height to diameter as before. What is the new height of the sand pile?
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Question 1095283: Tom increased the area of his garden by 165 ft.^2. The rectangular garden was originally 16 ft by 12 ft. and he increased the length by the same amount. Find the dimensions of the garden now.
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Question 1095365: If a square has a perimeter of 44 units and each side is represented as 2x3 - 6x2 + 45x - 4.65, what is the length of each side?

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Question 1095475: a triangular garden is 20 ft taller than it is wide. The area is 750 ft^2. find the height and the base of the garden.?

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Question 1095505: Hello, I'm having some difficultly with this problem. I've tried really hard to find multiple solutions but so far I keep ending up with weird answers. I would appreciate any help! Thank you!
Problem:
A picture window has a length of 8 feet and a height of 6 feet, with a semicircular cap on each end. How much metal trim is needed for the perimeter of the entire window, and how much glass is needed for the opening of the window?
Thabk you so much! Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Question 1095553: an open box is to be constructed from a square piece of sheet metal by removing a square side of 5 feet from each corner and turning up the edges. If the box is to hold 720 cubic feet, what should the dimensions of the sheet metal be?
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Question 1095545: The Academy plans to lay out buildings equally spaced around a circle and wants sidewalks connecting every building to each other. Write an expression for the number of sidewalks needed for n buildings.
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Question 1095561: a pool measuring 12 x 16 meters is surrounded by a path of uniform width. if the are of the pool and the path combined is 480 sq meters what is the width of the path?
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Question 1095551: A planter in the shape of a cube has a volume of 1,000 in.^3 is the area of the base of the cube greater than or less than 1 square foot? Explain
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Question 1095627: The area of a trapezoid is 64 square feet. The height is 8 feet and one base is three times the length of the other base. What is the measure of each base?
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Question 1095656: Dear Tutor,
Below I have tried to solve the following problem, but with no avail. I would greatly appreciate your help, please:
When a group of colleagues discussed where their annual retreat should take place they found that of all the colleagues: 10 would not go to a park 17 would not go to a beach 12 would not go to a cottage 3 would go to neither a park nor a beach 11 would go to neither a beach nor a cottage 2 would go to neither a park nor a cottage 1 would not go to a park or a beach or a cottage and 2 were willing to go to all three places. What is the total number of colleagues in the group?
Thank you for your time,
Jen B
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Question 1095828: a 7 foot long piece of pipe has an outside diameter of 3.50 inches. and the volume of in the pipe is equal to 449 inches cubed(449in^3). find the wall thickness?
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Question 1095848: find the weight in pounds of 100 balls each 2.5 inches in diameter (density = 485 ld/ft^3)
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Question 1096028: A student paints a 4 meter square canvas she wants to recreate her canvas and make it twice as large.what will the length be

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Question 1096028: A student paints a 4 meter square canvas she wants to recreate her canvas and make it twice as large.what will the length be

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Question 1096028: A student paints a 4 meter square canvas she wants to recreate her canvas and make it twice as large.what will the length be

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Question 1096031: The length of a rectangle is five inches more than four times its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 90 inches, find its dimensions
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Question 1096165: What will it cost to carpet a rectangular floor measuring 24 feet by 27 feet if the carpet costs $ 17.17 per square yard?
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Question 1096205: a=6.4, b=12, c=12.2 and if can show me how u got your answer plz have to write out

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Question 1096224: The length of a rectangle is 9 more inches than the width. If the area of the rectangle is 400 square inches what is the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 1096273: An isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length. The length of the third side is 6 ft less than twice the length of one of the equal sides. Find the length of each side when the perimeter is 14 ft. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
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Question 1096384: 24cm to 4m

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Question 1096382: 24cm to 4m

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Question 1096454: A square box can store 2940 cylindrical cans. Each can occupies 15 square centimeters. What is the length of the box?

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Question 1096621: The sum of the interior angle of a triangle is 180 degrees. If angle B is four more than angle C and angle A is twice as large as B, find each angle in the triangle.
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Question 1096619: Sam is twice as old as Mary and Mary is 5 years older than her sister Kate. The sum of all their ages is 31. Find the age of Kate, Mary and Same respectively that add up to 31.
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Question 1096752: a triangle has a perimeter of 42cm. Each of the two longer sides of the triangle are three times as long as the shortest side. What are the lengths of all three sides of the triangle?
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Question 1096802: A rectangular floor is
21
feet long and
9
feet wide. What is the area of the floor in square yards?
Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.

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Question 1096820: length of a tennis racket: 2 ft 4 in.
length of a table tennis paddle: 10 in.?

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Question 1096851: mary is making quilts for her family. Each quilt will have 12 triangles. The triangles have a base 4in and a height of 8 in. She will be making 9 quilts. how much material will she need to make all the triangles?
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Question 1096889: The area of a rectangular lawn is 1350 square feet. If the length of the lawn is 21 feet less than thrice it�s width, find the dimensions of the lawn
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Question 1096893: You are designing a rectangular enclosure with 3 rectangular sections separated by parallel walls. You have 4,000 feet of fencing. What is the maximum area that can be enclosed?

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Question 1096969: a parking lot is 60 meters wide and 80 meters long. at $15 per square meter, how much will it cost to pave the parking lot?
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Question 1096979: 6-3�/3(-3)=
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Question 1096983: 6-3� � 3(-3)=
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