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Question 1096983: 6-3� � 3(-3)=
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Question 1096987: 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?
How did you get the $72,000? Dividing 15/4800 is giving me a different number?
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Question 1096988:
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 1096998: A company is shipping a piece of equipment that requires a cubic box with a volume of one 125 cubic feet how many square feet of wood are required to construct the box?
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Question 1097181: You are skating on an rectangular ice rink that is 200 by 85 ft. If you are skating diagonally across from one corner to another and your friend was to go along the sides. How much distance would you save
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Question 1097301: Decide whether perimeter or area would be used to find the quantity of metal frame needed for a painting.
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Question 1097375: The length of a rectangle exceeds its width by 6 units. If each dimension were increased by 3 units, the area would be increased by 57 square units. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1097473: A circular piece of glass has a circular hole cut out of it to fit a fan. the glass has a diameter of 700cm and the hole has a diameter of 140cm. what is the area of the hole and the total area of the remaining glass
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Question 1097492: Mr. Pi�s house is the shape of a regular polygon. The interior angles have a sum of 9000 degrees. How many sides does the house have?
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Question 1097462: An aquarium with a square base has no top. There is a metal frame. Glass costs 10 dollars/m^2 and the frame costs 10 dollars/m. The volume is to be 20 m^3. Express the total cost C in terms of the height h in meters. (Hint: work out the cost of the glass and frame separately.)

I/m stuck on this problem! Please help.
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Question 801147: A Norman window has a width of 3 ft and a length of 4 ft.
a. Find the area of the rectangular piece of glass in the Norman window.
b. Find the area of the half-circle piece of glass.
c. Find the total area of the glass.
d. If the glass costs $3 per square foot for a rectangular piece and $4.75 per square foot, find the total cost of the glass.
e. Find the outer perimeter of the figure.
f. Find the length of framework needed for the Norman window (include the strip separating the rectangle and half-circle).
g. Find the cost of the framework if it costs $1.25 per foot for straight pieces and $3.25 per foot for curved pieces.
h. Use your answers in exercises d and g to determine the total cost of the Norman window.
I. Find the dimensions of the smallest rectangle that would completely contain the Norman window.
j. Find the area of the leftover created by cutting the Norman window from the rectangle found in exercise I.
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Question 1097408: Kamila has a rectangular lawn
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Question 1097629: I need to know length of three legs and top angles to be 10 feet apart at the bottom
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Question 1097656: The first section is rectangular and measures 14 feet by 10 feet. The second section is a semicircular area that extends off the end of the 10 foot side. Find the area of the painted area beneath the basketball goal. Use 3.14 for π.
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Question 1097671: The terminal point -2/3,1/4 of a diameter of a circle with a circumference of 6 units has a projected slope if the other endpoint.thus establish the equation of a line.
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Question 1097703: You have a 3.5-foot-wide shelf in your room, and you are considering a 45-inch television. Television sizes are determined by the length of the diagonal of the screen.

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Question 1097730: A. A box with a square base has a volume of 867 inches cube. Express the surface area of the box as a function of the length x of a side of the base. (Be sure to include the top of the box.)
B. Use the function in part a to find the dimensions of the box with volume 867 inches cube and the smallest possible surface area.
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Question 1097626: Four cubes of ice with an edge of 4 centimeter each are left to melt in a cylindrical glass with a radius of 6 centimeter. How high will the water rise when they have melted?
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Question 1097624: Find the area of each section of a wooden frame if the picture itself is 16 by 8 and the overall dimensions are 20 by 12.
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Question 1097627: Corinne plans to make 10 conical hats out of cardboard for a birthday party. How many pieces of cardboard will be used if each cap has a radius of 9 centimeter and a slant height of 25 centimeter?
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Question 1097833: There are 3 circles that are externally tangent to each other. Find the perimeter around the shape if the radius of each circle is 3.
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Question 1098078: A box has the following measures: length 1m., width 1,2m and height 80 cm. Calculate the surface of the box.
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Question 1098102: The ratio of sides of a rectangle are 1:4. Find the length of the sides of the perimeter is 110 feet.
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Question 1097899: What are the dimensions of the largest triangle that can be drawn inside a circle of radius 2
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Question 1098438: 1. (2a^4b)^3
2. If x-4y = 12, then the y-intercept of the graph of this equation is:
3. √12 + √27 =
4. One of the factors of 3x^2 + x is:
5. One of the factors of X^2-9 is:
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Question 1098456: What are the values of cos α and tan α, if:

sin a = 40/41
sin a = 3/5
sin a = 0.8

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Question 1098456: What are the values of cos α and tan α, if:

sin a = 40/41
sin a = 3/5
sin a = 0.8

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Question 1098496: the plan of a shopping complex is drawn to a scale of 1:400. A supermarket on the plan occupies an area of 0.25m square, calculate its actual area in hectares
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Question 1098628: Carlos wants to ship 24 small packages that are each in the shape of a cube. The volume of each cube is 8 cubic inches. To ship the packages he selects a box with dimensions 9 inches by 4 inches by h inches. What should be the minimum height of the box?
Can you please help me find h and show how you got to the answer?
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Question 1098748: Sam has a square backyard divided into two sections along 40 feet diagonal. One of these sections is used as a garden. What is the approximate area of the garden. Is the answer 20*20= 400 square feet the answer
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Question 1098895: The measure of a diagonal of a rectangle is represented by the expression 4X -10 if The measure of the diagonal is 10 m what is the value of X
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Question 1098963: The outer length and breadth of panting is 15 cm X 120 if there is a margin of 8 cm width all around the panting find the area of actual panting ((without margin)
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Question 1098980: The window of a room is 25m long and 17 m wide. If the carpenter works to put a metallic frame around it which costs rupees 100 per meter, then how much will the metallic frame cost?
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Question 1099050: A rectangle garden is 40 meters long and 30 meters wide what is the length of the straight line connecting the two opposite corners
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Question 1099092: A survey of a building lot that has the shape of an acute triangle shows these data:
1. Two intersecting sides are 250ft and 170ft long.
2. The angle between these sides is 55�.
a. Draw a diagram of the lot.
b. Use the 250ft side as the base of the triangle. What is the height of the triangle?
c. Determine the area of the lot to the nearest square foot.
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Question 1099128: What is the length of each side of a square room if the area is 400 ft�?
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Question 1099297: A rectangular driveway has an area of 240 square feet. Its perimeter is 64 feet. What are the dimensions of the driveway?

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Question 1099264: The side of a square is equal of the longer side of a rectangle. The shorter side of the rectangle is 2 cm and the longer side is 50% longer than the short one. With how many percentages have to increase the side of a square so that its surface becomes 81 cm2?
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Question 1099523: A farmer has 600 m of fencing.what area will he enclose if the fencing forms:
An equilateral triangle
A square
An equilateral hexagon(consider the radius of the circle that this hexagon will fit into as =100m)
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Question 1099589: A section of walkway is in the shape of a right triangle. If the area of the walkway is 32 square meters and the length of the shortest side of the triangle is 4 meters, how long is the second-longest side?
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