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Question 189371: Find the intersection of the V-shaped graph of y=[x-3] and the graph of y=2x+1
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Question 189370: Find the distance between the parallel lines corresponding to y=2x+3 and y=2x+7.
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Question 189463: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. the third side measures 5m less than twice the common length. The perimeter is 11m. What is the length of the three sides?
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Question 189460: At a point on the ground 35 ft from the base of a tree, the distance to the top of the tree is 1 ft more than 3 times height of the tree. Find the height of the tree.
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Question 189489: The length of a rectangle flower bed is 7 feet less than 3 times its width. The area of the bed is 20 square feet. Find the dimensions of the bed.
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Question 189577: The amount of paint needed to cover the walls of a room varies jointly as the perimeter of the room and the height of the wall. If a room with a perimeter of 45 feet and 6 foot high walls requires 3 quarts of paint, find the amount of paint needed to cover the walls of two rooms that each have a perimeter of 35 feet and 6-foot high walls. How many quarts are needed ( round up to the nearest quart).
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Question 189668: This is a problem I missed on a quiz. Please, can anyone help me work this problem? Here it is: A small area in front of a building is triangular in shape. The perimeter is 49 meters. The second side is one-fourth of the first side in length. The third side is 4 meters more than the first side. FInd the length in meters of each side of the triangular region.
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Question 189884: Explain how would you find the distance from the point P (-2,3) to the line x=1.
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Question 189882: Decide whether each of the statement is always true, sometimes true, or never true. Explain.
a) If E is the midpoint of DF, then DE=EF
b) If DE=Ef, then E is the midpoint of DF
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Question 190114: find the area of an equiangular triangle, whose perimeter is 24
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Question 190113: Find the length of a 50 degree arc of a circle whose radius is 6.
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Question 190113: Find the length of a 50 degree arc of a circle whose radius is 6.
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Question 190165: a cylinder with a radius of 6 inches and a height of 8 inches has its radius quadrupled. How many times greater is the volume of the larger cylinder than the smaller cylinder?
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Question 190253: a mountain bike tire is typically 26 inches in diameter. How many rotations will the tire make in one mile(5280 feet)?
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Question 190270: The rate, given that the distance is 200 ft and the time is x+3 seconds

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Question 190270: The rate, given that the distance is 200 ft and the time is x+3 seconds

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Question 190772: Jim's nephew owns a triangular plot of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 121 feet. The shortest side is 15 feet longer than one-half of the longest side. The second longest side is 4 feet shorter than the longest side. What is the length of each side?
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Question 190818: The area of a triangle is 96 sq. inches. Its altitude is 2 inches greater than five times its base. Find the altitude. ( A= 1/2bh )
I tried 96=1/2(5b)h
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Question 190946: I have a homework problem that I could use some help with-thank you. What is another measure for an angle that measures 283 degrees? _________ degrees.
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Question 191052: In a certain right triangle, one of the acute angles measures 25 degrees. What is the measure of the other acute angle?
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Question 191194: Unknown Angles. One angle of a triangle is 10 degrees greater the the smallest angle,and the third angle is 30 degrees less than twice the smallest angle. Find the measure of the three angles
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Question 191207: An escalator in the subway system of St.Petersburg,Russia has a vertical rise of 195ft 9.5 in and rises at an angle of 10.4 degrees.how long is the escalator?
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Question 191413: A square has a side measuring 30 inches. Find the diagonal
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Question 191720: A yardstick casts a shadow 84 inches.Find the height of a tree whose shadow is 560 inches in length ?

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Question 191848: A giant California redwood tree 36 meters tall cracked in a violent storm as if hinged. The tip of the once beautiful tree hit the ground 24 meters from the base. Researcher Red Woods wishes to investigate the crack. How many meters up from the base of the tree does he have to climb?
The length of the hypotenuse is (((36-x))) Solve for "x"
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Question 191931: The area of a rectangle is 64cm^2. Its length is 4times the width. What is its length and width? THANK YOU TO WHO EVER HELPS ME WITH THIS. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
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Question 191983: The area of a rectangle is 64cm^2. Its length is 4 times the width. What is the lenght and width. I NEED TO SOLVE THIS BY FACTORING. ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME..THANK YOU TO YOU ALL...
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Question 192004: The area of a square is 3 less than the perimeter of the same square. What is the length of one side of the square.
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Question 192021: A square peice of cardboard is formed into a box by cutting out 3 in squares from each of the corners and folding up the sides. If the volume of the box needs to be 126.75 cubic inches, what size square piece of cardboard is needed?
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Question 192080: Find the surface area of a rectangular prisim that is 8 meters long, 6 meters wide, and 2 meters high.
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Question 192079: What is the area of a trapezoid with altitude 7 feet and bases of lenghts 11 feet and 15 feet?
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Question 192078: The sum of the measures of three of the interior angles of a convex pentagon is 280. The measure of the fourth angle is three times the measure of the fifth angle. Fin the measure of the fourth angle.
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Question 192068: The earth has a circumference of 25,000 miles. The diameter I beleive would be 7961.78. If you walked completely around the world, and you are 5 feet tall how much farther would your heat travel than your feet?
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Question 192077: Given (triangle)ABC~(tringle)XYZ, AB=9, BC=18 and AC-21. If the perimeter of (triangle)XYZ is 112, find the measures of the three sides of (triangle)XYZ.
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Question 192221: find the distance between the points (a,0) and (b,0)
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Question 192234: Find the length to the nearest tenth, of a diagonal of a square whose sides are 10 centimeters long.
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Question 192235: From the top of a 200-foot cliff, the angle of depression to a boat offshore is 15 degrees. To the nearest foot, how far is the boat from the base of the cliff?
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Question 192270: Given(triangle) with vertices A(0,4) B(5,0), and C (7,5) what are the vertices of its image after a reflection over the x-axis.
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Question 192271: From the top of a 200-foot cliff, the angle of depression to a boat offshore is 15 degrees. To the nearest foot, how far is the boat from the base of the cliff?
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Question 192267: Find the volume to the nearest tenths, of a cone with diameter 3 feet and height 1.5 feet.
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Question 192310: A plane that is 500ft. above the ground begins its descent at an angle of depression of 30 degrees. What is the ground distance the plane must travel before it lands?
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Question 192272: if (triangle)ABC is a 30 degree, 60 degree, 90 degree triangle with m angleA=30 find sin A cos A, and tan A. Give the answers as franctions with simplified radicals.
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Question 192268: Solve the system of equations. 4x-y=6 2x+3y=-4
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