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Question 206343: which parabola intersects the x-axis in two distinct points?
A) y= (x+5)^2
B) y= (x-5)^2
C) y= x^2-25
D) y= x^2+25
E) y= (x-4)^2
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Question 206343: which parabola intersects the x-axis in two distinct points?
A) y= (x+5)^2
B) y= (x-5)^2
C) y= x^2-25
D) y= x^2+25
E) y= (x-4)^2
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Question 206405: One of the angles of a triangle is equal to the sum of the other two angles. If the ratio of the other two angles is 4:5, find the angles of the triangle.
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Question 206516: Celsius to Fahrenheit

solve for C: F= 9 over 5 c +32

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Question 206513: Area of a Rectangle

Solve for w: A=lw

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Question 206518: Perimeter of a Square P=4s

solve for s

find s when p = 44 cm

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Question 206515: Perimeter of an Equilateral Triangle

Solve for s: P=3s

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Question 193535: Jeremy has a fish tank that has a 40-cm by 70-cm rectangular
base. The water is 25 cm deep. When he drops rocks
into the tank, the water goes up by 2 cm. What is the volume
in liters of the rocks?
It seems to me this is measuring by water displacement, but I do not understand how to go about solving this problem. Thank you.
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Question 206517: Area of a Trapezoid.

solve for H: A= h over 2 (b^1+b^2)

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Question 206517: Area of a Trapezoid.

solve for H: A= h over 2 (b^1+b^2)

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Question 206365: The dimensions of a garden are in whole numbers. If the length is reduced by 3 and the width reduced by 1 then the area is reduced by half. What were the dimensions and area of the original rectangle.
I know the answer but cannot find the math to get to it!
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Question 206647: Hello,
Can someone please help me with this problem.

1. Write down all possible subsets of {x, y, z}

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Question 206610: suppose that a box has a base with a width of x, a length of x+1 and a hieght of 2 inches. It is cut from a rectangular sheet of materrial with an area of 182 inches2 find the dimension of the box.
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Question 206646: Hi
Can someone please help me. I have the following questions

1. In a survey of 75 resorts, it was reported that:
45 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms
37 provided laundry services
44 provided business centers
23 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms and laundry services
29 provided refrigerators in the guest rooms and business centers
21 provided laundry services and business centers
12 provided all three features
Construct a Venn diagram and use it to answer the following questions:
(a) How many of the resorts provided only refrigerators in the guest rooms?
(b) How many of the resorts provided exactly one of the features?
(c) How many of the resorts provided at least one of the features?
(d) How many of the resorts provided exactly two of the features?
(e) How many of the resorts provided none of the features?

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Question 206851: One angle of a triangle is three times another. The third angle is 45 degrees greater than the smallest. Find the measure of the smallest angle.
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Question 206852: The length of a rectangular box is 3 less than 3 times the width. The perimeter is 74 ft. Find the length of the box.
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Question 206850: The width of a rectangle is four feet less than the length. The perimeter is 16 ft. Find the width.
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Question 206955: Consider an area of cm2 bounded by two concentric circles ( the figure is called an annulus). Determine the radius of the inner circle ( in units of cm) if the outer and the inner diameters of the of the annulus differ by 2 cm.
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Question 207228: Need to draw a diagram to solve the following question.
an average sized orca whale eats about 551 pounds of food a day. How many pounds of food will an orca whale eat in one year?
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Question 207463: the length of the rectangle is 3cm greater than its width. the perimeter is 24cm. find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 207456: What is the height of the rectangle if the base is 24.3 cm and the area is 580.77 cm?
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Question 207656: Can you answer this: The length of a side of a rectangle is 4 inches more than the width. If the perimeter is 62 inches, what are the dimensions.
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Question 207934: If a television has a diagonal measurement of 25 inches and a width of 20 inches, what is it's height?
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Question 208023: please help me how to solve this. because i can't get it.
1) the width of the rectangle is one-forth of its lenght. if the perimeter is 40 cm, find the dimensions of the rectangles?
2) the perimeter of a standard basketball court is 288ft. find the dimensions of the basketball court if its lenght is 44ft longer than its width.
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Question 208067: I have a triagle that one leg is 91 inches and another leg is 96 inches, What is the length of the third leg? I really am stuck on this one.
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Question 208128: A race car accelerates uniformly from 18.5 m/s to 46.1 m/s in 2.47 seconds. Determine the acceleration of the car and the distance traveled.
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Question 208119: What is a Palmyra triangle? I have no idea.. Middle length? if I had some idea of what it looked like i think i would be able to figure out the problem. Would you mind helping me with this?
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Question 208206: The perimeter of a rectangle is 168 inches. The length exceeds the width by 62 inches. Find the length and width.
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Question 208404: what are the dimensions of a room that is 1.5 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 25 meters
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Question 208404: what are the dimensions of a room that is 1.5 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 25 meters
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Question 208405: the width of a rectangular storage container is 1.25 times its height. The length of the container is 16 inches and the volume of the container is 2000 cubic inches
what are the dimensions of the container?
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Question 208379: how do you find the length and the midpoint of a segment using two endpoints:A'
(2,-7) and B'(-5,-4)
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Question 208364: in any triangle, the sum of the measures of the angles is 180 degrees. In triangel ABC, angle A is four times as large as angle B. Angle C measures twenty degrees less than angle B. Gind the measure of each angle.
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Question 208415: The measure of a suppliment of an angle is 12* greater than three times the measure of a complement. Find the measure of the angle.
Okay, I understand that suplimentary angles add up to 180 and that complimentary add up to 90. However, it doesn't seem to give me enough info to write an equation for this. Wouldn't I need the other supliment and compliment? Any help?
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Question 208383: Two frames are needed with the same perimeter. One frame is in the shape of a square and the other in the shape of a regular pentagon. Each side of the square is 7 inches longer than each side of the pentagon. Find the dimensions of each frame.
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Question 208353: Your making a photo quilt by transferring photos to aquares of fabric. Each square should be big enough so that you can turn over an edge 5/8 inch long on each side and have a finished aquare with a side length of 5 3/4 inches.
a.What are the demensions of each fabric square? is it 5 3/4 x 5 3/4
b.How many square inches of fabric do you need if you want to include 48 squares? is it 276 in. squared
c. The fabric you buy is 36 inches wide. How long a piece of fabric do you need?
d. You buy a piece of fabric that has the length you found in part (c). Once you've cut all squares, how many square inches of fabric are left over?
Please help solve! Thank you!
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Question 208376: The sum of the complement and supplement of an acute angle exceeds 20 less than thrice its complement by 60. Find the measure of the acute angle.
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Question 208494: The width if a triangle is fixed at 13cm. What lengths will make the perimeter greater than 88cm? Although I initially thought this solution could be easy, I am second guessing myself. My thought process feels me the answer could be 30cm since the perimeter would be 90. IDK-I've been struggling w/ Algebra & geometry for weeks now. Is there an easy way to fibnd the right solution? TY-Angel
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Question 208643: The length of a rectangle is 3 meters less than 5 times the width. The perimeter is 18 meters. Find the length and width.
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Question 208617: A rectangle's length is 20 less than 3 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 80. What are the dimensions of the length and the width?
I'm pretty sure that the answer is 25 x 15 from trial and error, but I do not know how to solve it algebraically.
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Question 208678: If one side of a right triangle is 3 inches and the hypotenuse is 4 inches, how long is the other side? I need help with the formula and solution
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Question 208743: the perimeter of a rectangle yard is 290 feet. If its lenth is 25 feet greater than its width, what are the dimensions of the yard?
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Question 209193: How do you get the volume of a rectangle prism. Height 1cm Lenght 9cm. Also, how do you get the surface area for the same problem. Thank you, Domonique M.
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Question 209166: the measures of an angle and its complement differ by twenty-two degrees. find the measures of the angles.
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