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Question 177873: If the complement of an angle is 5degrees less than one-sixth of its supplement. Find the measure of the angle.
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Question 177879: Abby has 37 coins, consisting only of dimes and quarters, worth $7.45. How many dimes and how many quarters does she have?
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Question 177875: If triangle ABC angle B is 8Degrees less than one half of angle A and angle C is 28 degress larger than angle A. Find the measues of the three angles of the triangle.
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Question 177878: A collection of 70 coins consisting of dimes, quarters, and half-dollars has a value of $17.75. There are three times as many quarters as dimes. Find the number of each kind of coin.
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Question 178014: Is it possible for a leg of a right triangle to be longer than its hypotenuse? If it is, when does this occur? IF it is not, why not?
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Question 178136: A photo is 4 inches longer than it is wide. A 3 inch border is placed around the photo making the total area of the photo and border 165 square inches. What are the dimensions of the photo?
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Question 178183: The length of a rectangle is twice its width. Find its length if the perimeter is 84 feet.
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Question 178137: A rectangular patio is 7ft longer than it is wide. Determine the dimensions of the patio if it measures 13 ft diagonally.
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Question 178453: the perimeter of field is 96m and the length is 12 m more than the width. find the length and the width
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Question 178300: A photo is 4 inches longer than its width. A 3 inch border is placed around the photo making the total area around the photo and border 165 square inches. What are the dimensions of the photo
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Question 178865: You are taking a pottery class. As an assignment, you are given a lump of clay whose volume is 200 cubic centimeters and asked to make a cylindrical pencil holder. The pencil holder should be 9 cm high and have an inner radius of 3 cm. What thickness x should your pencil holder have if you want to use all the clay?
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Question 178896: the dimensions of triangle 2 are 4 times those of triangle 1. how many times greater is the area of triangle than the area of triangle 1?
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Question 179022: One egg has 75 calories. One slice of bacon has 38 calories.How many calories are in breakfast of 2 eggs and 4 slices of bacon?
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Question 178997: a bookcase is to be constructed to be 3 times the height. If 60ft of the my lumber is available for the entire unit, find the length and hieght of the bookcase
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Question 179079: Mr dean and Mr Tomlin have similar rectangular yards. the area of Mr Tomlin's yard is four times bigger than the area of Mr dean's yard. the length of Mr dean's yard is 15m and the area of Mr Tomlin's yard is 720m square. calculate the cost of fencing for each yard if it costs $15 per meter
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Question 179253: I need help with these two word problems.
1. The perimeter of a rectangle is 24 centimeters. The lenght of the rectangle is four more than the width. What is the length of the rectangle.
2. The sum of three consecutive even intergers is 444. what are the three numbers.
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Question 180279: Draw three different rectangles with perimeter of 30 units. Find the area of area of each
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Question 180243: A company has determined that the profit, in dollars, it can expect from the manufacture and sale of x tennis racquets is given by: P= -0.01x2 + 168x - 120,000. How many racquets should the company manufacture and sell to earn a profit of $518,000?
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Question 180845: find the measure of an angle which is two time the measure of its complement.
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Question 180990: Find the perimeter of a triangle if one side is 16 feet, another side is two-seventh the perimeter, and the third side is one-third the perimeter?
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Question 181547: The perimeter of a rectangle is 32 inches and the area is 60 square inches. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 181517: The height h of a cylinder varies in inversely with the area of the base B when the volume is constant. If the height of the cylinder is 6 centimeters when the area of the base is 12 square centimeters. What is the area of the base of the cylidner at right with the same volume?

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Question 181627: A regulation tennis ball has a diameter of 2 1/2 inches. Find the volume necessary to store 12 tennis balls.Round answer to the nearest integer.
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Question 181671: Two angles in a triangle are equal and their sum is five times the third angle in the triangle. What are the measures of each of the three interior angles?
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Question 182005: An architect is designing an office building that is to be a width of 50 feet, a length of 50 feet, and a height of 100 feet. A scale model of the same building is to have a width of 18 inches, a length of 18 inches, and a height of 36 inches
1. Find the scale factor of the office building to the model.
The answer I got for this one is 1:1:2 but I don't think it's right. And I can't answer the other questions until I understand how to do it.
2. The entrance into the building building is 8 feet high by 7 feet wide. Find the height and width of the entrance on the scale model. Round your answer to one decimal place.
3. Two windows on either side ofthe main entrance measure 3 inches wide and 2 inches high on the scale model. Find the height and the width on the actual building. Round your answer to one decimal space.
4. You want to add a window over the entrance to the building. Determine the size that you want the actual window to be. Then find the size of the window on the scale model.
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Question 181230: I need help finding two different shapes with an area of 6 square units and a perimeter of 12 square units.
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Question 182264: The width of a rectangular painting is two thirds its length. If the perimeter is 60 inches, then what are the length and width?
I know that the formula is P= L2 + W2 but I am dyslexic and the fraction in here is throwing me. I would include what I have done so far but it doesn't even make sense to me.
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Question 182386: Triangle ABC with a vertices A(0,square root of 27) B(3,o) C(-3,0)
Use the distance formula to classify the triangle by its sides.
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Question 183149: a man has two children, a boy and a girl. the boy is 6 years older than the girl.two years ago the father's age was three times the sum of the children's ages.In eight years the father's age will be ten years greater than the sum of the children's ages.Find the present ages of the man, of the boy,and of the girl.
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Question 183384: The length of a rectangle exceeds twice its width by 4 cm. The perimeter of the rectangle is 68 cm. Find the length and the width. (Hint: P=2l+2w)
Can you please help me with this question?
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Question 183389: A fence of length 50 meters has posts that are 2 meters apart. How many posts would there be in the 50 meter fence?
Can you please help me with this question?
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Question 183497: the width of a rectangle is 3 inches less than twice its lenght. If
perimeter of the rectangle is 36 inches, find its lenght and width.

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Question 183669: I NEED HELP SOLVING THIS WORD PROBLEM. I DID TRY SOMETHING BUT I DON'T THINK IT IS RIGHT. THE QUESTION IS "the length of a rectangular is 5 more than twice its width. it's perimeter is 88 feet. find it's dimensions?" THIS IS WHAT I TRIED:
L=w+5
2L+2w=88
2(W+5)+2w=68
2W+10+2W=68
4W=68-10
4W=58
W=58/4
W=14.5
L=15.5+5=20.5 INCHES
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Question 183793: the length of a rectangle is 4 times the width. The perimeter is 35. find the width :
i triecthis formula but it isnt working out :
2( G x 4 ) + 2G =35

please help !
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Question 183907: Jennifer measured the amount of water a drinking straw can hold to be 5 cubic cm (cc). The strawa is 19.5 cm long. What is the diameter of the straw?
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Question 183911: An adjustable water sprinkler that sprays water in a circular pattern is placed at the center of a square field whose area is 1250 square feet. What is the shortest radius setting that can be used if the field is to be completely enclosed within the circle?
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Question 183969: A farmer sold a square shaped acre with an oak tree outside each corner. The buyer later returned to buy another acre. The farmer was eager to sell, but wanted to retain ownership of the oaks too. The tough part is that the buyer wanted the whole parcel to be square. In other words, you need to find a way to double the size of the plot and keep it square while at the same time leaving the farmer's four oak trees outside the parcel boundaries. Explain your answer in detail.
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Question 183992: The radius of a wheel is 6 inches. How many revolutions will it make if it is rolled a distance of 288[pi]inches?

Find the standard form of the equation of the line whose x-intercept is 4 and whose y-intercept is 2.
help please!
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Question 184150: Find three consecutive even
integers whose sum is 114

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Question 184231: The length os a rectangle is twice its width. The area is 1080 cm2. Find the width, in simplest radical form.
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Question 184390: the length of a rectangle is 8 cm greater than its width. find the dimensions of the rectangle if its area is 105cm squared.
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Question 184602: if a triangle is formed with sides having lengths what type of triangle is 6 , 8 , and 10 ?
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