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Question 234895: In my textbook these are called Perimeter Problems. I'll greatly appreciate any help I can get! If I can get help before Thurday November 4, it will be even more appriciated seeing as though I have a quiz on this chapter that evening!
One side of a triangle is three times the shortest side.
The third side is 7 feet more than the shortest side.
The perimeter is 62 feet. Find all three sides.
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Question 234933: 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. Construct an algebraic equation with a variable and solve using algebra steps.
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Question 235879: could you please help me solve these three problems :
1)Mrs. Gardner went to the market. She purchased some lettuce heads and some tomatoes. There were 12 items purchased. She bought twice as many tomatoes as lettuce heads.
2)The Perimeter of a rectangle is 600. The length of the rectangle is 2 more than 3 times the width.
3)3 times the first of three consecutive numbers is 4 more than 2 times the second.
please and thank you :)
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Question 236005: A customer purchased a car and financed &16,000. The customer borrowed part of the money from a bank charging 10% annual interest and the rest from a credit union at 8% annual interest. If the total interest for the year was $1390, how much was borrowed from the bank and how much was borrowed from the credit union?
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Question 236325: A car radiator has a capacity of 8 quarts of coolant which is 20% antifreeze. A mechanic needs to drain part of the radiator fluid and replace it with 100% antifreeze to bring the coolant in the system to 60% antifreeze. How much of the original coolant should be drained and replaced by 100% antifreeze to achieve the desired mix?
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Question 236329: suppose that 18,000 is invested in two types of bonds for one year. Part of the money is invested in a high-risk, high growth fund that earned 24% annual interest. The rest is invested in a safe fund that earned 5% annual interest. If $2320 in interest is earned, how much was invested at each rate?
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Question 236003: A fabric store worker has a 57 yard bolt of cloth which is to be cut into three lengths. The length of the second piece is 5 yards shorter than twice the length of the first. The length of the third piece is 2 yards longer than twice the length of the first. Find the length of each poece.
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Question 236695: If an object is propelled upward from ground level with an initial velocity of 224 feet per second, its height h in feet t seconds later is given by the equation h = 224t - 16t2. After how many seconds does the object hit the ground?
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Question 236860: the height of an object projected upward from ground level is given by h+-16t^2+128t where h is in feet and t is time in seconds. when will the object be 240 feet above ground level ...
please help i dont understand
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Question 236877: im not sure why i cant pickout the most imporant info in these word problems please help...
If the length of a rectangle is 1km longer than twice the width then what is the length if the areaa is 55 square kilometer?
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Question 237113: A painter leans a 15-ft ladder against a house. The base of the ladder is 5 ft from the house.
a)To the nearest tenth of a foot, how high on the house does the ladder reach?
b) The ladder in part (a) reaches too high on the house. By how much should the painter move the ladder's base away from the house to lower to top by 1ft?
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Question 237178: Steve and Mimi are placing a border around a rectangular flower bed. One long side will be next to the house and will not have a border. The longer side is to be 3 feet more than the shorter side, and they have 24 feet of border is material. Find the length and width of the flower bed.
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Question 237201: Have 2 questions.
Question 1) The width of a rectangular gate is 2 meters (m) larger than its height. The diagonal brace is √6 m. Find the width and the height.
Question 2) The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to find five more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2000. How many members are currently in the club?
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Question 237420: I'm not sure how to set this up. " A Cathedral tower 200 feet high is 250 feet from a chruch tower 150 feet high. On the top of each tower is a pigeon. The two pigeons fly off at the same time and at the same speed directly to some grain on the level straight road between the towers. The pigeons reach the grain at the same time. How far is the grain from the foot of the cathedral tower?"
I was thinking of using the Pythagorean Theorem formula but, I didn't know which numbers to use for which.
please help if you can.
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Question 237420: I'm not sure how to set this up. " A Cathedral tower 200 feet high is 250 feet from a chruch tower 150 feet high. On the top of each tower is a pigeon. The two pigeons fly off at the same time and at the same speed directly to some grain on the level straight road between the towers. The pigeons reach the grain at the same time. How far is the grain from the foot of the cathedral tower?"
I was thinking of using the Pythagorean Theorem formula but, I didn't know which numbers to use for which.
please help if you can.
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Question 237556: The roadbed of one section of a suspension bridge is hanging from a large cable suspended between two towers that are 200 feet apart. The cable forms a parabola that is 60 feet above the roadbed at the towers and 10 feet above the roadbed at the lowest point.
A)Express the vertical distance D(x) (in feet) from the roadbed in to the suspension cable in terms of x and state the domain of D.
B)The roadbed is supported by seven equally spaced vertical cables. Find the combined total length of these supporting cables?
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Question 237557: Given a rectangular sheet of cardboard that is 15 inches by 25 inches, a small square of the same size is cut from each corner. Each side of the cardboard is folded along the cuts to form a lidless box.
A)What is the maximum volume, V(x), of the box?
B)What size of the cut squares would produce a box with a volume equal to 400 cubic inches?
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Question 237730: Frank makes and sells small picture frames.
His revenue from sales can be represented as R= $13.60x for x frames sold.
The cost of making the frames can be represented as C= $5.80x + $120 for x frames made.
Determine the minimum number of frames Frank must make and sell in order for his revenue to be greater than his costs. Show your work or rpvide an explanation for your answer.
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Question 238598: Given a rectagular Prism With dimesions w=3 , l=4, and h=6. If you created a second rectangular prism with the lenght double but the hieght halved( and the width stays the same), which would be the relation of the second volume to the first volume?
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Question 238582: the state of colorado is almost perfectly rectangular, with its north border 111 mile longer than its west border. if the state encompasses 104,000 mi squared estimate the dimensions of colorado. round to the nearest mile.
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Question 238879: Packaging computers
The phillips paper company makes rectangular peices of cardboard for packing computers. The sheets of cardboard are to have and area of 99 square inches and the length of a sheet is to be 5 inches more than 2/3 its width. Determine the length and width of the cardboard to be manufactured.
I have tried 99=(2/3w^2 +5)(w) since Area= L X W so i get 99= 2/3w^2 +5w then i set it to 0 and i try to factor over and over again im just getting no wou
sihere please help!
thank you
sincerly me
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