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Question 1105758: a rectanglar lawn is 65 m long and 34 m wide. over time, people have walked along a diagonal as a short cut and created a straight path. What is the length of the path , to the nearest thenthe place of a meter? Answer as a decimal
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Question 1105794: An artist is designing a logo for a business in the shape of a circle with an inscribed rectangle.the diameter of circle is 6.5 inches and the area of the rectangle is 15 square inches.Find the dimension of the rectangle?
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Question 1105823: the width of a garden is (4x-1) feet and the length is 2x feet. find the perimeter of the garden
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Question 1105829: A broken rectangular shaped window is being replaced. It measures 24 inches by 18 inches. How many square inches of glass are needed to repair the window

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Question 1105905: A large cylindrical drum of water has a radius of 80cm. If it is being drained at a constant rate of 22cm3/s, how fast is the height of the water decreasing?
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Question 1105907: Water exits a conical tank at a constant rate of o.2 m3/minutes. If the surface of the water has radius r:
a) find V(r), the volume of the water remaining
b) find the rate at which the surface radius is changing at the instant when the water is 5m deep.
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Question 1106013: An air conditioning system can circulate 450 cubic feet of air per minute. How many cubic yards of air can it circulate per minute?
The air conditioning system can circulate about
________________ cubic yards of air per minute.

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Question 1106036: Albert Einstein was born on March 14 1879.Which day of the week he was born?
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Question 1106090: a homeowner painted her bathroom. she has a mirror that is 30 inches high and 20 inches wide. she decides to decrease both mirror dimensions by the same amount, and she will now have to paint the newly exposed wall. she only has enough paint to cover 225 square inches.
part a says calculate the new area of the mirror
part b says write and solve an equation to find out she should decrease each dimension
i dont understand how to do this
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Question 1106098: Carl has 3 lengths of cable 5/6 of a yard long 1/4 yard long and 2/3of a yard if he uses 1 yard of cable how much cable will he have left

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Question 1106180: Points B and C lie on segment AD. Find AC if:
AB/BD = 3/4 , AC/ CD = 5/6 , and BD = 66.

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Question 1106162: A section of stained glass is made by placing a circle at the top of a triangle with a base of 10 centimeters and a height of 8 centimeters. The diameter of the circle is equal to the height of the triangle. What is the area of the section of stained glass? Show your work. Use π = 3.14.
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Question 1106186: Water exits a conical tank at a constant rate of o.2 m3/minutes. If the surface of the water has radius r:
a) find V(r), the volume of the water remaining
b) find the rate at which the surface radius is changing at the instant when the water is 5m deep.
The diameter is 6m. Height 8m.
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Question 1106232: The angles in triangle are in the ratio of 2:2:4. Find the exterior angle adjacent to the largest angle.

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Question 1106401: Patrick is replacing a door in his house. It has a height of 80 inches and its diagonal is 89 inches. What is the width of the door?

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Question 1106391: The measure of the vertex angle in an isosceles triangle is six less than four times the measure of the base angle. Find the measure of the vertex angle.

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Question 1106388: The measure of one angle is six more than half the measure of another angle. If the angles are complementary, find both measures.
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Question 1106553: One side of a triangle banner is 1 1/2 times longer than the second side and 2cm shorer than the third side. The perimeter of the triangle is 98cm. How long is the shortest side?

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Question 1106613: A milk can has a radius of 6 cm and a height of 18 cm.how much milk does it contain

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Question 1106662: A square is inscribed in a circle. If the area of the square is 9 in^2, what is the ratio of the circumference of the circle to the area of the circle?
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Question 1106746: The community is planning to construct a rectangular playground within the local park. The park is in the shape of a square and measure 100 yards on each side. The playground is to measure 15 yards by 25 yards.
Find the area of the playground.
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Question 1106765: You are standing 49 meters from the base of a building. You estimate that the angle of elevation to the top of the 86th floor (the observatory) is 82�. If the total height of the building is another 121 meters above the 86th floor, what is the approximate height of the building? (Round your answers to one decimal place.)

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Question 1106804: AB=48 and AC=64 what is the length of AE?
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Question 1106853: What is the perimeter of a field tha measures 62 2/3 yards by 48 1/6 yards?

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Question 1106920: The sum of all the prime numbers between 1 and 100 that are simultaneously 1 greater than a multiple of 4 and 1 less than a multiple of 5
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Question 1106987: A rectangle has a perimeter of 84cm. If 4 cm is taken from the length and added to the breadth it becomes a square. Find the dimensions and area of the rectangle.
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Question 1106989: The lengths of the sides of a right angled triangle are x+1, x and 4 cm respectively. Find x if x+1> x > 4
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Question 1107011: An art museum exhibits a square painting that has an area of 75 square feet. Find it�s side length to the nearest tenth.
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Question 1107010: A rectangle flag is 29 ft long and 15 ft wide. If a triangle is cut out of the center of the flag that has a base of 13 ft and a height of 8 ft what is the remaining area of the flag?
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Question 1107078: stan wants to put a rectangular garden in his backyard. he has sketched out a plan for the garden on a grid of his rectangular backyard. the scale for the grid is 1 unit equals 3 feet worksheet
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Question 1107120: A rectangular shaped desk has a length of 30 inches and a width of 24 inches. A desk with a similar shape has a length of 48 inches. What is the width of this desk?

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Question 1107153: two turns are 50km apart. what is the distance betwwen them on a map which has a scale of 2.5cm to 1km?
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Question 1107152: a piece of land measures 12cm by 15m. what would be the dimensions in centimeters on a scale drawing if the scale is 1/2 cm= 1m?
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Question 1107438: The permitter of Steve�s garden is 120 feet the length is 3 feet less than twice the width what is the length and what is the width
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Question 1107518: A carpet layer can put down 400 square feet of carpeting in 2.5 hours. How many hours will it take him to lay 600 square feet of carpet?
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Question 1107517: A carpet layer can put down 400 square feet of carpeting in 2.5 hours. How many hours will it take him to lay 600 square feet of carpet?
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Question 1107599: 4) The frame is being enlarged to hang on a gallery wall. Using the scale factor of 1in=2.5ft., give the new dimensions of the outside edges of the frame. Explain and show your work! Outside length is 7 inches Width 5 inches.
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Question 1107595: 1) Part A-Find the PERIMETER of the outside edges of the frame. Explain and show your work!
Lenght 7 inches
width 5 inches
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Question 1107597: 2) IF the area of the frame was 64inches�, what would be 2 possible sets of dimensions that could be used to make a frame with that area?
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