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Question 1167080: Task 1: Being the first grandson, your grandparents decided to give you a rectangular field for your coming wedding. If you are given 200m wires of fencing, what dimensions would you choose to get the maximum area?
a. List all the possible dimensions of the rectangular field.
b. Make a table of values for the possible dimensions.
c. Compute the area for each possible dimension.
d. What is the maximum area you obtained?
e. What are the dimensions of the maximum area you obtained?
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Question 1167092: Find the equation given the eccentricity 3/5, distance between directrices 10.
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Question 1166906: he Flying Insect Eliminator emits carbon dioxide and heat in a circular area with a radius of 38 feet. A fly is located 50 feet South and 62 feet West of the center of the Flying Insect Eliminator. The fly follows a straight-line path and exits the circular area at the Eastern most edge. A coordinate system can be imposed with (0,0) representing the center of the Flying Insect Eliminator as shown in the diagram below. The units of the coordinate system are in feet.
a) Find the location where the fly enters the circular area to the nearest tenth of a foot relative to the center of the Flying Insect Eliminator.
b) When tested, it was found that an insect needed to stay in the carbon dioxide and heat for at least five seconds to be zapped. If the fly has an average speed of 6.5 feet per second, Calculate the amount of time the fly is in the circular area to decide if it will live or die.
c) What is the closest distance the fly comes to the center of the Flying Insect Eliminator? Give your distance to the nearest foot.
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Question 1167091: Find the equation of a parabola with axis parallel to the y-axis and passing through
(1/2, -5/2), (3/2,-9/4) and (-7/2, 3/2).
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Question 1167192: Mr radace will be asking to the carpenter to construct a square floor with the area of 64 square meter. In his approximation based from the house plan, the floor must in the area of 100 square meter
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Question 1167194: Mr radace will be asking to the carpenter to construct a square floor with the area of 64 square meter. In his approximation based from the house plan, the floor must in the area of 100 square meter
1.Draw a diagram to illustrate the house floor area
2.What is the possible dimension of the new area of the house floor?
3.How did you determine the possible dimension of the floor?
4.Suppose the length of the side of the square will increase to four meters.What will be now the new area?
5.What is the difference of new area to the old area if the side will increase to 4 meter from the 64 square meter area
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Question 1167221: The side of a cube is re
presented by x+1.find the volume of the cube in terms of x. Thanks you if you answers it.

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Question 1167226: A right triangle with sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm is rotated the side of 6 cm to form a cone. What is the volume of the cone?
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Question 1167226: A right triangle with sides 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm is rotated the side of 6 cm to form a cone. What is the volume of the cone?
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Question 1167225: Find the area of the isosceles triangle that can be inscribed in a circle with radius of 8 inches?
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Question 1167265: The width of the cube building is 15 meters, then what is the volume of the building?
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Question 1167090: Find the equation of a parabola with axis parallel to the x-axis and passing through
(3/2, 1), (5,0) and (-1,2).

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Question 1167277: The surface area of a circle is 1944 sq.cm., what is the volume?
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Question 1167277: The surface area of a circle is 1944 sq.cm., what is the volume?
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Question 1167693: The area of a rectangle is 21x^2+22x-8 square inches. its base is 3x+4 cm .Find its height
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Question 1167699: A directed line segment AB on the coordinate plane starts from A (3,-9) and ends at B (12,8).
Find the y-coordinate of point C on line segment AB that partitions the segment into a 2:4 ratio
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Question 1167762: William currently has a backyard square blue slate patio he is re-designing his patio and making it into a larger rectangle with a link that is 5 feet shorter than three times it’s width. Side X one of the original sides of look square is an integer. William decides that the perimeter should be no less than 80 feet.
a) Write an inequality to model the situation and solve it
b) what could be the smallest dimensions of the original square
c) using your answer to part B determine the least area and square feet of his new patio
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Question 1167788: An open box is to be made from a piece of cardboard that measures 40 inches on each side.
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Question 1167848: three apples and four bananas cost $4.85.

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Question 1168023: Joanna knows that when her line of sight is 34 ft to the top of flagpole, the angle of elevation is 27 degrees her eyes are 5 ft from the ground, what should be the height of the flagpole ?
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Question 1168140: The length of a rectangle is 3m less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is 14m^2. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1168196: a wall is 6.25m long and 2.25m high. vertical strips of wallpaper are used to cover this wall completely. if the wallpaper is 480mm wide, how many strips are needed

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Question 1168284: A rectangular flower garden has an area of (4x 3 -6x 2 + 10x -15) m 2 .If the width is
(2x-3)m, what is the length of the garden?

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Question 1168290: given triangle JEM , segment EM is congruent to segment MJ . which two angles are congruent ?
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Question 1168285: The length of the lower base of a trapezoid is 2 cm. longer than the length of the upper base
and the height is 1 cm. longer than the length of the upper base, what are the dimensions of
the trapezoid if the area is 36cm 2 ?

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Question 1168307: Given that the reflector is shaped like a bowl, is 16 inches wide from rim to rim, and is 12 inches deep, if the light bulb is 4 inches long, can we say that the reflector is parabolic in nature?
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Question 1168335: The circle is tangent to y-axis, and the center is at (5, 3). Find the equation of a circle.
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Question 1168334: The line segment joining A (0, 0) and B (6, -8) is a diameter. Find the equation of a circle.
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Question 1168433: The center is at (1, -3) and the passes through (-3, 5). Find the equation of the circle.
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Question 1168433: The center is at (1, -3) and the passes through (-3, 5). Find the equation of the circle.
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Question 1168447: if the length of the rectangle is 4 more than three times the width and the area is equal to 39^2. find the dimension of the rectangle
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Question 1168445: The circles (x+1)^2+(y-1)^2=9 and (x-3)^2+(y+1)^2=9 are overlapped. Find the point of intersections of the two circles.
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Question 1168504: A triangular sail has a perimeter of 25m. Side A is 2m shorter than twice side B, and side C is 3m longer than side B. Find the length of each side
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Question 1168452: In a parallelogram RSTU, The diagonals intersect at E. If RE= 10 and SU= 16, then RT=?
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Question 1168636: the rear wheel radius is 2 times the front wheels radius if the whee; touch the ground 10units apart find the equation of the rear wheel the front wheel of the tractor has the equation (x-6)^2 + (y-5)^2=9
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Question 1168662: the point R (7,4) is contained in line m that is parallel to line y=3x. Which of the following equations best represents line m.
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Question 1168682: Suppose that the height (in centimeters) of a candle is a linear function of the amount of time (in hours) it has been burning. After 5 hours of burning, a candle has a height of 24 centimeters. After 18 hours of burning, its height is
16.2 centimeters. What is the height of the candle after 12
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Question 1168435: If the circle is tangent to the line -3x+2y+1=0 at the point (1, 1), and the center is an the line x+y-1=0. Find the general equation of the circle.
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Question 1168775: a man with 200 ft. of fencing material wishes to fence off an area in the shape of a rectangle.what should be the dimensions of the area if the enclosed space is to be as large as possible?what is the largest area?
hint:A=lw,P=2l+2w

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Question 1168781: Mr mobile legends want to take a table for his friends which has an area of 10 square meters. the length of the table has to 3 meters longer than the width. find the width and length of the table

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Question 1168895: Hayden is playing with a toy airplane. The height of the airplane, in metres, is given by the relation h=-5t^2+18t+1 is playing with a toy airplane. The height of the airplane, in metres, is given by the relation pr024-1.jpg, where t is the number of seconds since the plane was launched. At time t, the horizontal distance travelled by the airplane is given by pr024-2.jpg1.jpg, where t is the number of seconds since the plane was launched. At time t, the horizontal distance travelled by the airplane is given by pr024-2.jpgHayden is playing with a toy airplane. The height of the airplane, in metres, is given by the relation pr024-1.jpg, where t is the number of seconds since the plane was launched. At time t, the horizontal distance travelled by the airplane is given by d=4.5t
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