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Question 1104397: A circular pool has a diameter of 30 ft and is surrounded by a 5 ft wide deck. What is the total area of the pool and deck in square ft?
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Question 1104461: Matt is centering a poster on the back of a door that is 32 inches wide. The poster is 18 1/2 inches wide. How far from the edge of the door should Mat hang the poster?

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Question 1104429: if the width of a rectangle is 125 cm. and its perimeter is no more than 800 cm. What is the longest length of the rectangle?
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Question 1104589: hi, what is 9+10? I cant figure it out
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Question 1104589: hi, what is 9+10? I cant figure it out
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Question 1104589: hi, what is 9+10? I cant figure it out
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Question 1104613: How many 2 foot wide by 2 foot long by 6 inch thick granite slabs would be needed to build a 77 foot wide by 77 foot by 28 feet high pyramid? Thank you for your time!
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Question 1104633: A rectangle measures 15.25"X 17" . How large of a circle will fit through it. Thanks
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Question 1104647: John made a rectangle surronded by a brick walk if 2m wide. the pond is twice as it is wide . area of the pond is 76square meter. find the dimensions
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Question 1104751: Alex called a carpet store.
He wanted a piece of
carpet to repair a
damaged rug.
Alex asked for a piece
measuring 3 m by 4 m
by 5 m by 6 m.
Explain why the
salesperson could not
help Alex.
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Question 1104711: The rules for a photo contest state that entries must have an area no greater than 100cm2 . Amber has a 6cm by 8cm digital photo, and she uses software to enlarge it by a scale factor of 1.5. Does the enlargement meet the requirements of the contest?
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Question 1104815: Peter walks 3 minutes at a constant rate and travels 330 meters.
If we graph this relationship with time along the x-axis and distance along the y-axis, the slope of the line representing this relationship is
.
If Peter walks for an hour, the point on the line that represents the distance he walks with respect to time is
.

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Question 1104857: The diagonal of a rectangle measures 6sqrt(2) inches. If the width is 8 inches less than the length, then find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1104880: A gardener wants to run a border around the outside of her garden. She plots it on a grid to plan how much she will need. The garden is in the shape of a rectangle with vertices at (3, 9) (5, 9) (3, 3) (5, 3). Find the total length of border needed.
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Question 1104984: The swimming pool and the floor of a gym are similar in size. The pool is 75 feet long by 60 feet wide. What are possible dimensions for the gym floor?
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Question 1105151: The vertices of a polygon are (9, 27), (15, 27), (18, 12), and (6, 12). Find the area of the polygon.
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Question 1105197: In parellogram ABCD AB=18 cm BC= 12cm AL^DC and AM^BC If AL=6.4cm find AM
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Question 1105235: what is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line y= 3/5+8
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Question 1105234: what is the equation of a circle with a center at (-3,1) and a radius of 7?
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Question 1105294: Consider the floor tile below.
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The surface inside the circles will be painted green. The surface outside the circles will be painted white. What is the ratio of green paint to white paint you will need to paint these tiles?
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Question 1105303: 65 inch length
60 inch height rectangle
Under this an elliptical can form so plz guide me
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Question 1104569: A Pillar is dug into the ground 1 third of its length.
half of the length is in water.
2 meters peak out of the water.
How long is the pillar?
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Question 1105430: If the area of a circle is 24.267 square inches, what is the ratio of the area to the radius squared?
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Question 1105430: If the area of a circle is 24.267 square inches, what is the ratio of the area to the radius squared?
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Question 1105431: What is the absolute value of the difference between 2 times the sum of an angle and its supplement and 3 times the sum of the angle and its complement?
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Question 1105448: Find the length of the longest leg of a 30-60-90 triangle if the hypotenuse is 6 square root of 3.
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Question 1105448: Find the length of the longest leg of a 30-60-90 triangle if the hypotenuse is 6 square root of 3.
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Question 1105452: Find the positive value of X if the geometric mean between 1 and 9 is X.
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Question 1105452: Find the positive value of X if the geometric mean between 1 and 9 is X.
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Question 1105452: Find the positive value of X if the geometric mean between 1 and 9 is X.
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Question 1105445: an adult and a young boy, standing on the ground are one metre apart .the height of the adult is 2 times the height of young boy. if at the mid-point of the line joining their feet the angular elevation of their tops are complementary , find the height of the young boy
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Question 1105473: If the lengths of the three edges of a cube add up to 1 yard, what is the perimeter of the base?
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Question 1105429: Find the coordinate of A if the coordinate of B is 2 1/3, A is less than B, and AB = 1 2/3.
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Question 1105590: A curious card player wrote the nubmers 1,2,3,....,50 on fifty card and spread them out in front of him. First, he flipped all the cards over, so that they all were faced down. Next, he flipped all the cared that have even numbers. Then, he proceeded to flip all the cards with numbers divisible by 3, then, 4, 5, and so on up to 50. What is the sum of the numbers on the cards that were left faced down at the end ?
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Question 1105661: ABCD is a rectangle. BC = 15m and DC = 8 m. BD is the diagonal. F is a point on BD. F is joint to C, such that FC is perpendicular BD. Similarly, E another point on BD and AE jointed such that AE is perpendicular to BD. What is the distance from point E to F. in m.
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Question 1105664: If the ratio of two corresponding sides of similar triangles is 3:7, what is the ratio of the area?
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Question 1105663: If the area of a parallelogram is 4b^2 where b is the base of the parallelogram, what is the value of the height minus the base?
A. b
B. 2b
C. 3b
D. 4b
E. 4b^2-b
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Question 1105670: How do you find the radius of a circle inscribed in a scalene triangle
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Question 1105670: How do you find the radius of a circle inscribed in a scalene triangle
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Question 1105670: How do you find the radius of a circle inscribed in a scalene triangle
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Question 1105669: How do you find the radius of a circle inscribed into a scalene triangle
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Question 1105673: Circle A has an area nine times that of circle B. How many times longer is the diameter of circle A than the radius of circle B.
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Question 1105674: You design a kite to look like the one at the right. Its diagonals measure 56 cm and 90 cm. You plan to use ribbon, represented by the rectangle, to connect the midpoints of its sides. How much ribbon do you need?
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Question 1105726: Bill wants to put a large mural on a wall that is 9 1/3 feet long and 8 1/8 feet wide. Find the area of the wall. If the mural is 100ft, will it fit on the wall?
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