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Question 1143773: Simplify the expression
2 1/3 x 4 1/2
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Question 1143773: Simplify the expression
2 1/3 x 4 1/2
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Question 1144058: Graph the inequality on a number line. Tell whether the graph is a segment, a ray or rays, a point or a line.
x is greater than or equal to 5 or x is less than or equal to -2
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Question 1144153: d/16=t^2

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Question 1144168: “If John used 72 meter of wire to enclose his lot which is 28 meters long, how wide is the lot?”
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Question 1144168: “If John used 72 meter of wire to enclose his lot which is 28 meters long, how wide is the lot?”
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Question 1144168: “If John used 72 meter of wire to enclose his lot which is 28 meters long, how wide is the lot?”
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Question 1144201: The length and width of a rectangle must add up to 74 feet.
Calculate the dimensions that will yield the maximum area (remember, area = length times width).
What is the length that results in the maximum area?
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Question 1144217: Ashley wanted to find out if a roll of toilet paper really had 300 sheets as indicated on the label, so she unwound a roll and found that there really 300 sheets as indicated, each sheet measures 11 cm, she got a new roll and found that a full roll has a diameter of approximately 10.5 cm and the diameter of the cardboard is 4cm, now she would like to know how many times does the paper wind around the cardboard but doesn't like to count manually by unwinding another roll and trust her mathematical ability instead
How did she do it and what answer did she get?
A)-125
B)-145
C)-180
D)-225
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Question 1144262: do you want to hang a framed picture with dimensions 9×12 inches. Do you want to hang it horizontally on a wall centered between two cabinets. The amount of space between the cabinets is 2 feet. If you hang the picture with a wire at what point along the 2 feet should you place your nail ?
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Question 1144346: Ana is planning to buy a new shoes worth 1000 pesos. She didn't have that much amount of money so she decided to save 50 percent of her allowance. Her allowance is 100 pesos so she will save the half of it which is 50 pesos.The problem can be expressed by the polynomial function, P(d)= 6d³+5d²+12d+10 where d represents the days. How many days will she need to have 1000 pesos?

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Question 1144345: Ana is planning to buy a new shoes worth 1000 pesos. She didn't have that much amount of money so she decided to save 50 percent of her allowance. Her allowance is 100 pesos so she will save the half of it which is 50 pesos. How many days will she need to have 1000 pesos?

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Question 1144385: An architect designs a rectangular flower garden such that the width is exactly two-thirds of the length. If 370 feet of antique picket fencing are to be used to enclose the garden, find the dimensions.
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Question 1144476: The parks department will be responsible for planting all of the trees for the tree-planting program. According to the tree nursery, each newly planted tree will need a layer of organic mulch. The nursery estimates that each cherry tree planted will require 20 pounds of mulch, each dogwood tree 25 pounds of mulch and each myrtle tree 20 pounds of mulch. The nursery sells mulch for $34.95 a ton. It does not sell fractions of a ton.
How much money will the parks department need in order to purchase mulch for all the trees in your proposal?
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Question 1144546: A carpenter used 54ft of molding in three pieces to trim a garage door. If the long piece was 4ft longer than three times the length of each shorter piece, then how long was each piece?
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Question 1144561: The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 3 inches more than the perimeter of a square, and the side of the triangle is 4 inches longer than the side of the square. Find the side of the triangle. (Hint: An equilateral triangle has three sides the same length.)
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Question 1144569: Trent can deliver his newspapers in 20 minutes. It takes Lois 30 minutes to do the same route. How long would it take them to deliver the newspapers if they work together?
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Question 1144568: If Mario plans to develop a circular race track 0.75mi in circumference on a square plot of land, then what is the minimum number of acres that he needs? (One acre is equal to 43,560ft^2).
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Question 1144631: A 50-ft x 300-ft parking lot is divided into sections for a
craft fair by bisecting the width and the length. Each half is again
bisected in length and width, forming 16 sections in all. What are
the dimensions and area of each section? Show your work.

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Question 1144802: A rectangle is 5 times as long as it is wide. If the area is 80 square feet, what is the perimeter?
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Question 1144841: A school gym is divided for a fair by bisecting it’s width and it’s length. Each half of the length is then bisected, forming 8 sections in all. What are the dimensions and area of each section?
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Question 1144895: A ball is tossed into the air at 40 feet per second from a height of 5 feet. How long will it take the ball to reach the ground? Use the formula s=16t^2+Vo t+So where Vo is the Initial velocity, So is the initial altitude and s is the altitude in feet after t seconds.
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Question 1144900: Please help me solve this: You have 80 ft of fencing to enclose a rectangular yard. The yard is 10 ft wide by 30 ft long. What is the area of the rectangular yard?
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Question 1144975: The sum of two numbers is 84, and one of them is 12 more than the other. What are the two numbers ?
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Question 1145177: The Earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun at one of the foci. If the semi-major axis of the ellipse is 92 million km and the eccentricity is 0.15, find the greatest and the least do stance of earth from sun.

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Question 1145186: A=1/2bh; b=28, h=
A=
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Question 1145185: P=2L+2W; L=3, W=
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Question 1145224: A rectangle has a length of one less than three times the width. If the perimeter is 46 inches, what are the length and width?
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Question 1145245: you want to fence off a rectangular area of yard using the back side of you house as one of the sides. you have a total of 150 yards of fence. if the area of the fenced in portion comes to 2,812 square yards, what are the dimensions of the fenced-in area?
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Question 1145246: A soccer pitch marked out on the field to ensure a rectangular dimension with its measures being 101.6m long, 76.2m wide, and a diagonal measure of 127m. Is it rectangular why or why not?
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Question 1145250: A car travels through 20KM in 24 minutes. Find the average speed in the car in km per hour
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Question 1145249: How long would it take to travel 4.58KM at the speed of 21.3KMn^-1
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Question 1145248: a chord 8cm from centre of circle of a radius 11cm find the length of the chord
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Question 1145356: A wire 370 in. long is cut into two pieces. One piece is formed into a square and the other into a circle. If the two figures have the same area, what are the lengths of the two pieces of wire (to the nearest tenth of an inch)?
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Question 1145359: 17:136::x:55
what is x?
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Question 1145359: 17:136::x:55
what is x?
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Question 1145205: Interior and exterior walls of 80,000 square foot rectangular warehouse cost $90 per running foot. The warehouse is to be divided into 10 rooms by four interior walls running in the x direction and one running in the y direction.
a) What dimension will lead to minimal total wall cost?
b) What is this minimal cost?

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Question 1145437: If ABC is equilateral triangle such that bd/bc=1/3 and ce/ca=1/3, af/ab=1/3. Find the ratio of area of the shaded region to area of abc
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