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Question 1099634: if the swimming pool is 1.8 deep, find its volume, in m3

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Question 1099669: The length of a rectangular driveway is five feet more than four times the width The Area is 975 square feet. Find the length and width of the driveway
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Question 1099674: the length of the sides of a trapezoid are (x+2) cm, (2x+5) cm and two sides of (2x-1) cm. Find the length of the shortest side of the perimeter is 82 cm.
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Question 1099767: a) A rectangular pen is build with one side against a barn. If 2100 m of fencing are used for the other three sides of the pen, what dimensions maximize the area of the pen?
b) A rancher plans to make four identical and adjacent rectangular pens against a barn, each with an area of 400m^2. What are the dimensions of each pen that minimize the amount of fence that must be used?
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Question 1099760: Matthew is ordering a square poster-size print of a favorite photograph. The cost of the having the photograph printed is $5 per square foot and can be represented by f(x)=5x2 , where x is the height of the print in feet. The cost, in dollars, of framing the print can be represented by g(x)=6x where x is the height of the print in feet.
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Question 1099785: Rachel is trying to build a triangular pen for her dog. The back of the yard already has 25 feet and 40 feet of
fencing that forms a right angle. She has 120 feet of fence left and would like to connect it from both ends of the fence to form a right triangle. Will Rachel have enough fence to enclose the pen? Explain your answer.
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Question 1099874: An 8-ft-by-10-ft rug leaves 1 ft of the bedroom floor exposed on all four sides. Find the perimeter of the bedroom floor.
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Question 1100045: Adam needs to fence his rectangular garden of area 240ft ^2. Adam fences all but one side, which is of length 40 ft. What is the length of fencing that Adam needs?
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Question 1100103: ABC is a triangle with 35 times the smallest angle is equal to 27 times the largest angle. What is the measure of second largest angle?
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Question 1100127: Draw an original and innovative geometric shape of 2 square units

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Question 1100130: An artist intends to paint a 60-square-foot mural on a wall as shown in the illustration. Find the dimensions of the mural if the artist leaves a border of uniform width around it.

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Question 1100149: This problem looks easy but I have tried several times to answer and still have it wrong. Will you please help.
Suppose you have two boxes, each of which is a cube. Suppose further that the length of a side of the second box is twice as long as length of a side of the first box. If the length of a side of the first box is a q kilometers. Give the volume of each box. The volume of the first box has how many kilometers and how many for the second?
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Question 1100192: the area of a rectangular mirror is 11
11
16
square feet. The width of the mirror is 2
3
4
feet. If there is a 5-foot tall space on the wall to hang the mirror, will it fit? Explain. fit because the height is

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Question 1100237: What would the surface area be if the volume was 433.5?
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Question 1100263: The base of a triangular garden is 33 yards longer than the height, and the area of the garden is 152 square yards. Find the dimensions of the triangle.
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Question 1100301: the perimeter of a rectangle is 204 units. The width of one side is 4z and the length of one side is 5z+3. what is the length of the other side?

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Question 1100399: Bob and Carol want to hire Able Refinishing to sand and refinish the dining room floor to match the floor in the living room. Able charges $2.89 per square foot to sand and refinish a hardwood floor. The dining room is rectangular and measures 17 feet 9 inches by 11 feet 9 inches. Find the area of the dining room floor, rounded to the nearest square foot, and the cost of the work.
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Question 1100614: if i have one hour to travel from my home to my office that is 90 km away, what is the minimum average speed should i drive to arrive at time when i expect a 10 minute traffic delay?

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Question 1100634: A farmer is planning to fence off her triangler garden. She measures angle 1 to be 79�, and angle 2 to be 53�. The distance between angle 1 and angle 3 is 57 feet. The distance between angle 2 and angle 3 is 70feet. How much fencing does she need to buy.
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Question 1100683: A rectangle has a perimeter of 116 centimeters and a length of 26 centimeters. What is the width of the rectangle?
A. Find the width of the rectangle and include all of your work.
B. In two or more complete sentences, explain your steps in finding the width of the rectangle.
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Question 1100690: ryan is using tiles in his bathroom. He chooses 1-inch by 2-inch tiles for the border and would like that are similar to the border as the interior tiles. the interior tiles. the interior tiles will be larger by a scale factor of 3.5. what are the dimensions of the interior tiles?
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Question 1101032: A scale drawing of a building needs to be made using the scale 1 in =270 ft. How tall will the building in the scale drawing be if the building is 1350 ft tall

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Question 1101047: sophie drew a triangle and reported the lengths is 3 inches, 10 inches and 9 inches can these three numbers represent the measures of the sides of a triangle? show how you determined the answer to the question?
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Question 1101177: How many liters of water are needed to fill a fish tank with dimensions of 25 cm, 35 cm and 20 cm?
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Question 1101173: A man 6 feet tall casts a shadow 10 feet long. At the same time, radio tower casts a shadow 220 feet long. Use similar triangles to determine the height of the radio tower.
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Question 1101174: What are the dimensions of a rectangular flower garden that has a perimeter of 70 feet if the length is 25 feet longer than the width?
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Question 1101175: What is the outside surface area of a rectangular box that measures 6 inches in length,8 inches in width and 5 inches in depth with no top?
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Question 1101338: A rectangle has an area of 2340 sq.cm.. When the length and width are both increased by 2 cm each, the area is increased by 206 sq. cm. Find the original perimeter.
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Question 1101625: The length of a rectangle is 2 meters longer than the width.If the area is 32 square meters,find the rectangles dimesions.
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Question 1101662: A right triangle has a leg that is 12cm long, and another right triangle has a leg that is 6cm long. Are two triangles similar or not? If not, what other information would be needed to show they are similar?
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Question 1101745: How many distinct triangles can be formed with sides of length 5, 8, and x, where x is a whole number?
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Question 1101639: The length of Marshall poster is 2 times its width if the perimeter is 72 inches what is the area of the poster

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Question 1101639: The length of Marshall poster is 2 times its width if the perimeter is 72 inches what is the area of the poster

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Question 1101639: The length of Marshall poster is 2 times its width if the perimeter is 72 inches what is the area of the poster

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Question 1101748: A square is drawn in the coordinate plane with one vertex on the x-axis and another vertex on the y-axis. Is it possible to find the area of the square if the third vertex of the square has coordinates (5,2)? If so, what is the area? Thanks!
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Question 1101822: If m∠A = 65�, m∠B = 115�, and m∠C = (2x + 5)�, determine the value of x so that Real-life picture is a parallelogram.

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Question 1101987: What is the ratio of x and y if 3x = 4y + 3k and
2x +7y = 31k.
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Question 1102062: The perimeter of arectangular plot of land whose length is(2x+5)m and width (x-10)m10)m is 80m.find the value of x and the area of the plot
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Question 1102110: what congruence statements can you write about the triangles in the previous question?
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Question 1102104: A storage box has a width of x, the length is 5ft more than twice the width, and the height is 2ft less than the width.write an expression that shows the volume of the storage box in simplest form
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