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Question 1172576: 34 feet!! The Soule’s Live on the corner lot. often children cut across their lot to save walking distance. the diagram to the right represents the corner lot. the children’s path is represented by a dash line. approximate the walking distance that is saved by cutting across their property instead of walking around the lot
Hypotenuse is 34
Leg A is : x
Leg b is :x+14
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Question 1172768: A tiny rectangular prism with sides of 21 mm by 24 mm by 36 mm is covered with enamel and then cut into small cubes with sides of 3 mm. How many of the cubes have enamel on just one side?
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Question 1172786: The diagonals of a kite are (2x + 3) units and (x + 4) units. If the area is
58.5 sq. units, how long are the diagonals?

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Question 1172807: The volume of a cube is 125 cm3. If each side increased at the same
length, the volume becomes 343 cm3. How long is being added?
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Question 1172807: The volume of a cube is 125 cm3. If each side increased at the same
length, the volume becomes 343 cm3. How long is being added?
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Question 1172806: The diagonals of a kite are (2x + 3) units and (x + 4) units. If the area is
58.5 sq. units, how long are the diagonals?
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Question 1172812: Suppose you have 20 inches by 16 inches cardboard. You need to cut
an identical square in each corner to form an open box with a total
volume of 384 cubic inches. What is area of each square being cut off?
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Question 1172853: A rectangular box has a volume of 4m^3. What is the volume of an identically shaped box whose surface area is four times as big?
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Question 1172859: on a school playground a triangle shaped sandbox as shown here. can a sand castle be built at the circumcenter and still be inside the sandbox
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Question 1172893: A rectangular field has an area of 1200 square feet. The length of the field is 50ft. How wide is the field? If the field is divided into 3 rectangles (if 50ft long and 3 rectangles are x ft, 3x ft and 2x ft what would the equation be and what are the dimensions of each rectangle?

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Question 1172976: After 4 4/9/ 1 1/5 has been simplified to a mixed number in lowest terms,what is the numerator
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Question 1172976: After 4 4/9/ 1 1/5 has been simplified to a mixed number in lowest terms,what is the numerator
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Question 1172974: A toy maker has 6 1/4 yards of fabric. He wants to make five stuffed animals that each require 7/8 yard of fabric. How many yards of fabric will he have left?
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Question 1172975: Erika read 90 pages in 2 1/2 hours. At the same time, how many Let x represent
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Question 1173002: The volume of a square box is 200 cm3 ≤ 𝑉 ≤ 810 cm3
. If the height is
(x + 3) cm and the side of the square base is (2x - 5) cm.
1. Give the area of the base in terms of x.
2. Express the volume of the square box in terms of x.
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Question 1173081: Different animals have different fields of view. Humans can generally see a 180° arc in front of them. Horses can see a 215° arc. A horse and rider are in place which is experiencing heavy fog, so they can see for only 10 yards in any direction.
a. Find the area of the rider's field of view.
b. Find the area of the horse's field of view.

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Question 1173358: what’s the distance in units between (-6, -2) and (4, -5)
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Question 1173358: what’s the distance in units between (-6, -2) and (4, -5)
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Question 1173470: The volume, of a rectangular solid with length L, width W, and height H is given by the formula
Use this formula to write a polynomial in a standard form that models, or represents, the volume of the open box.
An open box with width 5 minus 2 x, a length of 12 minus 2 x, and a height of x.

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Question 1173483: If 17 is increased to 24, the increase is what percent of the original number? (This is known as the percent change.) Round your answer to two decimal places.

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Question 1173546: The length of a pole is 6metres to the nearest metre, what is the range of it's actual length,
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Question 1173655: A bush walker estimates the angle of elevation to the top of the hill to be 22 degrees. After walking 700 metres closer to the hill, the angle of elevation to the top of the hill becomes 38 degrees. Determine the height of the hill.
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Question 1173657: a bush walker estimates the angle of elevation to the top of the hill to be 22 degrees. after walking 700metres closer to the hill, the angle of elevation to the top of the hill becomes 38 degrees. Determine the height of the hill?
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Question 1173712: A ferris wheel is 35 meters in diameter and boarded from a platform that is 2 meters above the ground. The six o'clock position on the ferris wheel is level with the loading platform. The wheel completes 1 full revolution in 6 minutes. The function h = f(t) gives your height in meters above the ground t minutes after the wheel begins to turn.
What is the Amplitude? ? meters
What is the Midline? y = ? meters
What is the Period? ? minutes
How High are you off of the ground after 3 minutes? ? meters
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Question 1173729: If the distance between consecutive fence posts is 5 meters, what is the number of posts needed to build a fence around a triangular region with sides 20 m, 20 m, 30 m?
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Question 1173710: A ferris wheel is 25 meters in diameter and boarded from a platform that is 2 meters above the ground. The six o'clock position on the ferris wheel is level with the loading platform. The wheel completes 1 full revolution in 6 minutes. The function h = f(t) gives your height in meters above the ground t minutes after the wheel begins to turn. Write an equation for h = f(t).
f(t)=
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Question 1173711: Outside temperature over a day can be modeled as a sinusoidal function. Suppose you know the temperature is 75 degrees at midnight and the high and low temperature during the day are 85 and 65 degrees, respectively. Assuming t is the number of hours since midnight, find an equation for the temperature, D, in terms of t.
D(t)=

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Question 1173769: The width and the length of a rectangle are both prime numbers. What is its maximum area when its perimeter is 40 cm?
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Question 1173860: The area of a carpet is 144 sq. meter. If its length is 2m less and its width is 5m more, the carpet will be a square. Find the dimension of the carpet. Show your work.
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Question 1173944: The area of a circle is proportional to the square of its radius. If the area of a circle whose diameter is 5cm is 19.635 cm^2. What is the constant of proportionality? What is the equation that describes the relation?
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Question 1173988: A basketball hoop is 10 feet hight. if toby is 4 feet tall and standing 11 feet away from the hoop, what is the distance from the top of Toby's head to the hoop? Estimate your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 1173987: A 20 foot tall flag pole is casing a shadow. If the distance from the top of the pole to the tip of the shadow is 25 feet, how long is the shadow?

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Question 1174023: The volume of a cone varies jointly as its height and the square of the radius of its base. The radius of a cone is 4 cm when height is 6 cm and the volume is 32picm3. Find the volume of a cone whose radius is 4 cm and height is 8 cm.
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Question 1174070: The volume of a cone varies jointly as its height and the square of the radius of its base. The radius of a cone is 4 cm when height is 6 cm and the volume is 32pi cm3. Find the volume of a cone whose radius is 4 cm and height is 8 cm.
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Question 1174282: a recipe calls for 5 cups of sugar for every 12 litres of milk. How much sugar do you need is you are using 15 litres of milk

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Question 1174282: a recipe calls for 5 cups of sugar for every 12 litres of milk. How much sugar do you need is you are using 15 litres of milk

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Question 1174282: a recipe calls for 5 cups of sugar for every 12 litres of milk. How much sugar do you need is you are using 15 litres of milk

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Question 1174641: The length of a rectangle is 4 inches more than it’s with the area of the rectangle is equal to 5 inches more than two times the perimeter find the length and the width of the rectangle
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Question 484513: if a rectangle has its dimensions multiplied by four, what happens to its perimiter?
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Question 1174751: In the figure, S is the interior of angle PQR. If the measure of angle PQR is equal to 50 and the measure of PQS is 40 less than the measure of RQS, what is the measure of the angle PQS?
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Question 1174875: Suppose a square ABCD has a side length of 1 unit. the arcs BD and AC are circular arcs with centers at A and D, respectively. find the area of the shaded region.
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