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Question 216594: width of a rectangle is 5cm shorter than the length. Perimeter is is 290 cm, find the sides.
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Question 216594: width of a rectangle is 5cm shorter than the length. Perimeter is is 290 cm, find the sides.
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Question 216726: A and B are complementary and measure b is 2 more than three times the measure of A. find B
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Question 217069: the asb can sell a total of 400 tickets for a basketball game. an adult ticket costs $3 and a student ticket costs $2. what is the minimum number of adult tickets that must be sold if tha asb wants to collect at least $1100?

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Question 216994: The perimeter of a rectangle is 76 m. If the width were doubled and the length were increased by 5m, the perimeter would be 120 m. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 217274: what is the perimeter of a square table with a side length with a side length of 5o inches

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Question 217389: A rectangular room is times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is meters. Find the dimension of the room
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Question 217354: the base of an isosceles triangle is 3 cm less than the length of the equal sides. if the perimeter of the triangle is 36cm, what is the length of each of the sides?
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Question 217408: square area of 225 square feet what is the length of each side.
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Question 217533: What is the length of a rectangle that is 6.5 cm wide and has a perimeter of 32 cm?
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Question 217533: What is the length of a rectangle that is 6.5 cm wide and has a perimeter of 32 cm?
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Question 217739: What is the Subtraction Property of Equalitry for this question
4(x-2)+6=10
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Question 217916: Two angles of a triangle have the same measure and the third angle is 1/4 the size of each of the other two. Find the measure of each angle.

ps....i know the answer is 80. Question is, how do I work it?
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Question 217903: A picture frame has a perimeter of 40 in. if the width is 4 in. shorter than the length, what is the length and width?
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Question 217938: a rectangle is twice as long as it is wide and its area is 98 square meters. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 218159: The length of a rectangle is 5 more than twice its width. If the width is decreased by 3 and the length by 1, the perimeter becomes four-fifths of the original. Find the original dimensions of the rectangle.
Please send me the solution as soon as possible. Thanks MATH Masters~
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Question 218184: A convex pentagon has three right angles. The other two angles are congruent to each other. What is the measure, in degrees, of one of these other angles?
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Question 218034: Dalton has a closed rectangular box with a square base at least 10 inches long have a surface area of 900 square inches. what dimensions will give the box a maximum volume?
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Question 218299: A rectangle has a perimeter of 100 inches. Its length is (7x + 2) and its width is (5x). What is the value of x and find the actual measurement of the length and width.
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Question 218772: if a right triangle has a area 180cm^(2) and hypotenuse 41 cm, find the length of the two legs
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Question 218862: A 4 ft piece of PVC pipe is cut in three pieces. The longest piece is 12 in. longer than twice the smallest piece. The middle piece is 6 in. less than the longest piece. How long is each piece?
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Question 219004: a.Identify the slope and the vertical intercept of the graph.
y= 1/3x-4
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Question 219166: The lenght of a rectangle is 3 time the width. The perimeter is 120m. Find the lenght and width
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Question 219354: Word problem from instructor: Farmer Jones has 385 yards of #38 ga. chicken wire fencing material available with which to build a rectangular chicken pen alongside a river, using the river as one side of the pen (so that the fencing material is not used for the side of the pen adjacent to the river). Letting L represent the length of the pen side parallel to the river, and W represent the length of the pen side perpendicular to the river, find the value of L which will yield the pen of largest area.
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Question 219421: If the radius of a circle were increased by 2 inches, the area would be increased by 32pi square inches. What is the radius?
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Question 219578: For a fixed area, the length of a rectangle is inversly proportional to its width. A rectangle has a width of 18 feet and a length of 12 feet. If the length is increased to 16 feet, find the width.
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Question 219702: Hi, I want to make a planter box for my garden. I know someone with 20 pieces of 2" by 6" by 10'. If I want my box 10' long by 3' wide and 1'tall how many pieces should I get? I cannot get it!
Thank you, I hope you can help asap.
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Question 220403: the number of diagonals that can be drawn from one vertex in a convex polygon that has n verticles
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Question 220405: In a right triangle, one of the acute angles is fourteen times as large as the other acute angle. what are measures of the two acute angles?
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Question 220817: Radius of a sphere is given by the formula
r=(0.75v/pie)^1/3
where v is its volume, find the radius of a spherical tank that has a volume of 32pie/3 cubic meters
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Question 220908: The perimeter of a rectangle is 230 inches. The length exceeds the width by 47 inches. Find the length and the width.
The length is _____ inches.

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Question 220912: The Everton College store paid $1650 for an order of 47 calculators. The store paid $8 for each scientific calculator. The others, all graphing calaulators, cost the store $57 each. How many of each type of calculator was ordered?
The store ordered ___ scientific calculators and ___ graphing calculators.

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Question 220913: Snookers Lumber can convert logs into lumber or plywood. In a given day, the mill turns twice as many units of plywwod as lumber. It makes a profit of $20 on a unit of lumber and $50 on a unit of plywood. How many of each unit must be produced and sold in order to make a profit of $12,480?
Snookers Lumber must produce and sell ___ units of lumber and ___ units of plywood to make a profit of $12,480.

Thank you for your help :)
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Question 221143: a rectangle with an area of 112 aquares yards has length 6 yards more than its width. find the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 221294: 5.On a sunny day, a building and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 32 m long and the shadow is 24 m, how tall is the building?
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Question 221381: A red ball and a green ball are simultaneously tossed in to the air. The red bass is given an initial velocity of 96 feet per second, and its height t seconds after it is tossed is -16^2+96tfeet. The green ball is given an initial velocity of 80 feet persecond, and its height t seconds after it is tossed is -16t^2+80t feet. Find a polynomial d(t) that represents the fiddference in the heights of the two balls, how much higher is the reball 2 seconds after the balls are tossed. In reality, when does the difference in the deights stop increasing?
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Question 221552: A 5-foot post casts an 8-foot shadow. A nearby tree casts a 48-foot shadow. How tall is the tree?
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Question 221586: The perimeter of a rectangular playground area is 308 feet. If the length of the playground is 34 feet more than twice the width, find the length and width of the playground. To earn credit, you MUST construct an algebraic equation with a variable and solve using algebra steps.
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Question 222120: A rectangle has a width of 10 inches and an area of 5 sqaure inches. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 222229: A quare rug has an area of 36 square feet. How long is one side of the rug?
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Question 222206: bobby built a fence around his turtle bowl that has primeter of 128 cm. the length is 8cm longer than 3 times the width. find the length and width.

the sum of 38 and twice a number is 124. find the number.

five more than three times a number is 197. find the number.
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Question 222420: What is the volume of a cube whose surface area is 294?
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Question 222420: What is the volume of a cube whose surface area is 294?
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Question 222419: By what percent does the volume of a cube increase when the length of each of its sides is tripled?
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