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Question 1131923: A school has a square playground. The school is going to pave a walkway along the edges of the playground. This plan leaves a rectangular patch of grass in one corner, as shown in the picture. The walkway will be 25 inches wide on the southern edge and 33 inches wide on the eastern edge. The quadratic expression represents the area of the playground’s remaining grass, where x is the side measure of the original square playground.
x2 – 58x + 825
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Question 1131961: On a map, Meridian, Birmingham, and Montgomery form a triangle. Meridian is 109 miles from Birmingham and Birmingham is 91 miles from Montgomery. Which of the following is not a possible distance between Montgomery and Meridian?
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Question 1132031: The population of Myanmar was 55,622,000 in the year 2018 and is expected to continue its population growth rate of 0.89% per year, assuming annual compounding. Define variables and write a function that models the population. Then use a graphical representation of this function to determine what year the population will reach approximately 65 million.
Show step-by-step how this problem can be solved algebraically, without a graph. Logarithms will be involved!
Suppose you have $14,000 that you can place in a savings account. There are two accounts at your bank. Both have an annual interest rate of 5.6%. Account A compounds interest every 6 months. Account B compounds interest continuously, but has a $200 fee for opening an account.
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Question 1132031: The population of Myanmar was 55,622,000 in the year 2018 and is expected to continue its population growth rate of 0.89% per year, assuming annual compounding. Define variables and write a function that models the population. Then use a graphical representation of this function to determine what year the population will reach approximately 65 million.
Show step-by-step how this problem can be solved algebraically, without a graph. Logarithms will be involved!
Suppose you have $14,000 that you can place in a savings account. There are two accounts at your bank. Both have an annual interest rate of 5.6%. Account A compounds interest every 6 months. Account B compounds interest continuously, but has a $200 fee for opening an account.
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Question 1132031: The population of Myanmar was 55,622,000 in the year 2018 and is expected to continue its population growth rate of 0.89% per year, assuming annual compounding. Define variables and write a function that models the population. Then use a graphical representation of this function to determine what year the population will reach approximately 65 million.
Show step-by-step how this problem can be solved algebraically, without a graph. Logarithms will be involved!
Suppose you have $14,000 that you can place in a savings account. There are two accounts at your bank. Both have an annual interest rate of 5.6%. Account A compounds interest every 6 months. Account B compounds interest continuously, but has a $200 fee for opening an account.
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Question 1132329:
Points A, B, Q, D, and C lie on the circle as shown and the measures of arcs BQ and QD are 42° and 38° respectively. What is the sum of the angles P and Q?
https://associations.missouristate.edu/assets/Math/Practice_Probs_Sept_2013_-_Solutions.pdf
Question 4 - Can someone explain this?/
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Question 1132405: a ramp at the loading dock of an automobile manufacturing plant has a base of 77 meters the length of the ramp is 215 meters what is the angle of elevation from the base of the ramp to the top entrance to the loading dock?
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Question 1132558: The lateral surface area of a right square pyramid at the right in the figure above is given by S = b times the square root of b^2+4h^2. If the pyramid has height 10 feet and lateral surface are 100 square feet, what is the length of the side b of its base?
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Question 1132608: A bulletin board measures 45 feet wide and 18 feet high. Eight posters measuring 2 1/2 feet wide and 3 1/4 feet high are placed on the bulletin board as well as a border covering a total area of 25 feet squared. What fraction of the bulletin board is still available for to the items?
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Question 1132723: A rectangular piece of cardboard is 10 in. longer than it is wide. Squares 3 in. on a side are to be cut from each corner, and then the sides will be folded up to make an open box with a volume of 357 in3. Find the length and width of the piece of cardboard.
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Question 1132723: A rectangular piece of cardboard is 10 in. longer than it is wide. Squares 3 in. on a side are to be cut from each corner, and then the sides will be folded up to make an open box with a volume of 357 in3. Find the length and width of the piece of cardboard.
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Question 1132837: a rose garden is formed by joining a rectangle and a semicircle, as shown below. The rectangle is 26 ft long and 19 ft wide.If the gardener wants to build a fence around the garden, how many feet of fence are required? (use the value 3.14 for pi, do not round your answer and be sure to include the correct unit.)
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Question 1133299: Grady is flying a kite on 50 ft of string. Its vertical distance from his hand is 10 ft more than its horizontal distance from his hand. Assuming that the string is being held 5 ft above ground level, find its horizontal distance from Grady and its vertical distance from the ground.
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Question 1133493: There is a rectangle that is divided into 4 four triangles (2 diagonal lines) John says that because the angles in each of the 4 four triangles add to 180 degrees the angles in the triangles would be 180(4)=720. Ben says that the angles in a rectangle add to 90(4)=360 degrees. Discussion who is correct.
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Question 1133493: There is a rectangle that is divided into 4 four triangles (2 diagonal lines) John says that because the angles in each of the 4 four triangles add to 180 degrees the angles in the triangles would be 180(4)=720. Ben says that the angles in a rectangle add to 90(4)=360 degrees. Discussion who is correct.
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