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Question 1122776: the perimeter of the rectangular pool is 228 meter. if the length of the pool exceeds twice its width by 6 feet, find the dimension of the pool
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Question 1122804: 4/7 is the result when 1/2 and x are added
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Question 1122875: The ratio of tulips to roses is 17 to lol. If there are 3444 tulips and roses in the garden, how many tulips ?
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Question 1122908: A park that was the shape of a rectangle was cut into equal triangles by a fence. The park measured 360� by 240� . What is the area of each triangle
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Question 1122909: sandy plans to paint a rectangular mural of a waterfront image on the westside of his garage. the width of the mural will be 7 feet longer than the height. the diagonal is 13 feet. find the dimensions of the mural.
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Question 1122993: A rectangle is 2 cm longer than it is wide, and its diagonal is 10 cm long. Find the perimeter of the rectangle.

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Question 1123007: The perimeter of the triangular window shown in the illustration is 24 feet. How long is each section?
a = 2 ft
b = 4 ft
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Question 1123061: The measure of an angle is one third the measure of its supplement. What is the measure of the angle?
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Question 1123057: Farmer ryan has a corn feild that is in the shape of a rectangle. The length is five meters more than the width. The perimeter is 210 meters. Find the length and width of the corn feild
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Question 1123081: If side of a square increases by 21% then its area increased by:
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Question 1123063: One side of an equilateral triangle is along the line 12x+5y-26=0 and the opposite vertex is on the line 12x+5y+13=0. Find the area of the triangle.
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Question 1123065: A truck hauling a cylindrical tank has to pass under an overhead parabolic arch bridge which has a 24 m wide base and is 20 m high. If the tank is 16 m in diameter and is placed in the truck with sides vertical and it's top 10 m above the ground, can the truck pass under the bridge (assuming that the axis of the tank is along the axis of the parabolic section)? If so, what is the smallest clearance from the top of the tank?
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Question 1123141: Mary wants to fill in a cylinder vase. At the flower store they told her that the vase should be filled 3/4 for the flowers to last the longest. Her cylinder vase has a radius of 4 inches and a height of 10 inches. How much water should Mary pour into the vase?

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Question 1123182: Matt wants to reflect a shape over the x-axis and then reflect it over the y-axis. Cathy says that this would be the same as rotating the shape 180 degrees. Do you agree or disagree with Cathy? Justify your answer and use matrix transformations as part of your justification.
thanks for any help!!
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Question 1123216: a piece of 12 ft wire is folded into a rectangle that is 3 ft longer than it is wide. what�s the area?
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Question 1123297: Seventeen lines drawn in a plane, with no 3 concurrent and no 2 parallel, divide the plane into closed regions(bounded on all sides) and open regions. The number of closed regions is?
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Question 1123339: A piece of paper is in the shape of a sector of a circle whose radius is 12 cm and the central angle of the sector is 120 degree. It is rolled to form a cone of the biggest possible capacity.Find the capacity of cone.
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Question 1123428: A bucket is in the shape of a truncated cone.The height of the bucket is 45 cm,and the diameters of the top and the bottom surfaces are 56 cm and 14 cm respectively.Find the the quantity (in litres) of the water the bucket can hold.
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Question 1123549: the length of a pole is said to be 6 meters to the nearest meters. what is the range of its actual measurement. find the percentage error.
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Question 1123564: How much artificial turf should be purchased to cover an athletic field that is in the shape of a trapezoid with a height of H = 11 m and bases that measure T = 50 m and B = 40 m?

Thanks so much for your help:)

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Question 1123566: Find the values of sin θ, cos θ, and tan θ for the given right triangle. Give the exact values.
sin θ =
cos θ =
tan θ =

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Question 1123569: Draw a picture and label it. Set up an equation and solve it. Show all your work. Round an angle to the nearest tenth of a degree. Round the length of a side to the nearest hundredth of a unit.
A television transmitter tower is 400 feet high. If the angle between the guy wire (attached at the top) and the tower is 54.4�, how long is the guy wire?

feet

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Question 1123577: Express 30 mi/h in kilometers per hour.
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Question 1123578: A 2 kg ham costs $12/kg. Find the cost per pound.

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Question 1123578: A 2 kg ham costs $12/kg. Find the cost per pound.

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Question 1123574: A television transmitter tower is 400 feet high. If the angle between the guy wire (attached at the top) and the tower is 54.4�, how long is the guy wire?

feet

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Question 1123575: A bicycle tire has a diameter of 14 in. How many feet does the bicycle travel when the wheel makes 18 revolutions? Round to the nearest hundredth of a foot.

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Question 1123572: Solve. Round to the nearest hundredth if necessary.
A 2 kg ham costs $12/kg. Find the cost per pound.

dollars per pound

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Question 1123658: there are 39 coins in her piggybank and the total value of the coins in $280

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Question 1123663: Seventeen lines drawn in a plane, with no 3 concurrent and no 2 parallel, divide the plane into closed regions(bounded on all sides) and open regions. The number of closed regions is
a)120
b)105
c)91
d)153
e)171

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Question 1123884: Find the largest angle of a triangle where the larger is 20� greater than the smallest and the largest is twice the smallest angle.
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Question 1123942: there are 200 bracelets in sue's jewelry shop. 20 of them have diamonds,emeralds, and rubies. 50 of them have diamonds and rubies. 70 of them have diamonds and emeralds. 60 of them have emeralds and rubies. How many bracelets have diamonds? How many bracelets have emeralds? How many bracelets have rubies?
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Question 1124016: Find the two points on AB that divide the segment into three congruent parts. Point A has coordinates (0,0) and point B has coordinates (9,6). Explain your method
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Question 1124023:
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Question 1124063: A 19.5 foot ladder leans against a building. The base of the ladder is 7.5 feet from the building. how high up on the building does the ladder reach?
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Question 1124061: a pasture is twice as long as it is wide. it's area is 115,200ft^2. how wide is the pasture?
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Question 1124104: A marketing firm found that the equation S = 2.1A + 224 describes how the amount of sales S of a product depends on A, the amount spent on advertising the product. Both S and A are measured in thousands of dollars. For what amount, A, is the sales of a product at least 350 thousand dollars?

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Question 1124386: The midpoint of is M(�8, 1). One endpoint is K(�6, 5). Find the coordinates of the other endpoint L.
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Question 1124653: A piece of wire is shaped to enclose an equilateral triangle whose area is 27.71cm^2. It is then reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 9cm., find the area of the rectangle
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Question 1124660: The volume of a sphere is increased 72.8%. What is the percentage increase in the radius?
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Question 1124896: An artist wants to place a piece of round stained glass into a square that is made of copper wire. See the figure. If the perimeter of the square is 24 inches, what is the area of the largest circular piece of stained glass that can fit into the copper square?
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Question 1124906: One side of a triangle is one-fourth the longest side. The third side is 11 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 42. Find all three sides.
The sides have lengths of ____, ____, and ___ ft.
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