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Question 1136467: An 18-foot ladder is leaning against a wall where it makes an angle of 58° with the ground and 32° with the building.
a. How far is the ladder base from the building?
b. How far does the ladder reach up the building?
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Question 1136469: A window pane has dimensions of 30 inches by 22 inches. If a glass sells for $0.80 per square inch, how much will each window cost?
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Question 1136468: Jessica wants to enlarge the dimensions of an 18-by-24-inch photo by 25%. What will be the perimeter of the enlarged photo?
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Question 1136464: the sun hits a building of unknown height so that the building casts a shadow of 410 feet if the angle of elevation of the sun is 16, how tall is the building?
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Question 1136471: Civil war cannonballs were made out of cast iron. A collector found a set of three cannonballs for sale at an auction. The balls had diameters of 4.52 in., 4.346 in., and 3.908 in., respectively. Find the total volume of cast iron contained in the three civil war cannonballs.
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Question 1136533: A rectangular athletic field has a length that is 20 yards longer than its width. Its original width will be increased by 4 yds and its length will be decreased by 5 yds. The news field will have an area that is the same as the original field. Find the dimensions of the original field.
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Question 1136535: Mary is trying to put in a rectangular garden that is 5 feet longer than twice its width. She wants to have a sidewalk along two of the garden’s sides that is 3 feet wide. If the area of the sidewalk will be 213 ft2 ,help Mary find the dimensions of her garden.
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Question 1136687: A map of a public park shows a circular pond. There is a bridge along the diameter of the pond that is 0.25 mi long. You walk across the bridge, while your friend walks halfway around the pond to meet you at the other side of the bridge. How much farther does your friend walk?

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Question 1136664: A tile manufacturer wants to make parallelogram-shaped tiles with the dimensions 4 in. by 6 in. What is the maximum number of such tiles that can be cut from a 12 in. by 40 in. slab of clay? I have tried everything I can think of including graph paper and I still do not understand how the answer become 36 tiles. I can get 18 whole tiles with a lot of scrap left over.

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Question 1136704: A rectangle has a perimeter of 80m and a diagonal of 1000m. Find its dimensions.
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Question 1136704: A rectangle has a perimeter of 80m and a diagonal of 1000m. Find its dimensions.
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Question 1136704: A rectangle has a perimeter of 80m and a diagonal of 1000m. Find its dimensions.
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Question 1136703: A framed poster has a length of 28 inches and a perimeter of 88 inches. A similar poster has a perimeter of 66 inches. Find the area of the similar poster.
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Question 1136700: Two barrels are geometrically similar. Their heights are 16 inches and 20 inches. The diameter of the base of the larger barrel is 8 inches. Calculate the diameter of the base of the smaller barrel.
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Question 1136699: Two geometrically similar buckets have bases with radii in the ratio 2:5. The top of the small bucket has radius 7 inches. A) Find the radius of the top of the big bucket B) Write the ratio of the height of the small bucket to the height of the big bucket
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Question 1136701: A photograph is 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. It is enlarged to a width of 6 inches a) What is the length of the enlarged photo? b) If the original photo is enlarged to a length 12 inches, find the new width.
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Question 1136807: A rectangular plot measures 12m by 5m. A path of constant width runs along one side and one end. If the total area of the plot and the path is 120m^2, find the width of the path.
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Question 1136808: A rectangular piece of cardboard measures 17cm by 14cm. Strips of equal width are cut off one side and one end. The area of the remaining piece is 108cm^2. Find the width of the strips removed.
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Question 1136864: A flagpole has a guide wire attached at its midpoint, tethered to the ground 2.7 meters away. A meter ruler standing vertically touches the guide wire when placed 75 cm away from where it is tethered to the ground. How y’all is the flagpole ?
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Question 1136935: The length of a rectangular field is 15 Yards less than triple the width. If the perimeter of the field is 346 yards, what are the fields dimensions?
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Question 1136934: In a triangle, the measures of the first angle is three times the measure of the second angle decreased by 50 degrees. The measure of the third angle is 25 degrees less than second angle. What is the measure of each angle?
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Question 1136900: A decorator wishes to put a wallpaper border around a rectangular room that measures 19 feet by 27 feet. Find the room's perimeter. The perimeter of a rectangle is found by the expression 2 Upper L plus 2 Upper W, where L is the length and W is the width
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Question 1137029: Two sides of a garden bed are to be lined with logs. Three logs are needed for each side but 1 meter is cut off the third lotto make sure that the log doesn’t extend beyond the garden. The width of the garden is 3 meters and it’s area is 42 meters squared. How long is a whole log? (Hint: let x be the length of a whole log)
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Question 1137206: The perimeter of a rectangular field is 44m and its area is 105m^2. Find the dimension of the field.
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Question 1137206: The perimeter of a rectangular field is 44m and its area is 105m^2. Find the dimension of the field.
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Question 1137201: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose perimeter is
22 meters and whose area is
30 square meters.
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Question 1137202: Betsy, a recent retiree, requires $6,000 per year in extra income. She has $60,000 to invest and can invest in B-rated bonds paying
13% per year or in a certificate of deposit (CD) paying
5% per year. How much money should be invested in each to realize exactly $6,000 in interest per year?
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Question 1137236: Two buildings stand 90 feet apart at their closest points. At those points the angle of depression from the tip of the taller to the top of the smaller building is 12 degrees. How musch taller is the Taller building?
I got my answer of 90 tan 12 = 19 ft, but that doesn't tell me the measurement for the smaller building. what am I missing??
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Question 1137267: The annual enrollment at GEOM high school went from 500 in school year 2000 to 800 in school year 2005 it seems to follow a linear trend. Let 2000 be year 0 so that 2005 is year 5.
A) graph a line
B) find the slope of the line
C) write an equation of the line in slope-intercept form
D) if the enrollment follow the sam trend, predict the total enrollment in 2015
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Question 1137073: Two cones are similar in shape. The ratio of the diameters of their bases is 2:7. The radius of the smaller cone is 4.5 inches. A) find the radius of the larger cone B) write the ratio of the height of the smaller cone to the height of the larger cone.
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Question 1137372: The minute hand of a clock is 12 inches long. How far does the tip of the minute hand move in 35 minutes
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Question 1137373: three of the paths in a city park form a right triangle as shown on the map each unit of the map represens 10 meters the city plans to plant trees along these paths to the nearest meter what is the perimeter of the triangle explain how u solved this problem
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Question 1137377: The perimeter of a rectangular vegetable patch is 32 meters. The area is 39 square meters. What are the dimensions of the vegetable patch? I'm not very good at problems like this
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Question 1137382: I want to make a platform bed 7 feet wide and 10 feet long, i have 6 inches wide by 2 feet long, how much more boards do i need

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Question 1137437: A swimming pool measures 36ft. by 20ft. How much fencing is needed, including material for a gate, if the fence is to be built 9ft. from each side?
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Question 1137431: Marcus is putting a border of mulch around a tree. the figure shows the top view of the mulch. the mulch is 3 inches deep. find the volume of the mulch.
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Question 1137438: A 36 in by 36 in ceramic tile shower stall is being installed. How many 4 in by 4 in rules are needed to cover the floor? ( Disregard the drain opening and grout spaces)
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Question 1137537: A sandbox is being built for a kindergarten. It has 3 sides that are each 13 feet long and 2 sides that are each 12 feet long, what is the perimeter of the sandbox
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Question 1137516: A rectangular prism-shaped wooden board has a length of 48 inches, a width of 4 inches and a height of 2 inches. A carpenter wants to cover the entire board in a stain.
How much total area will be covered by stain?
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