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Question 247783: Please clarify the following problem: The work surface of a desk is a rectangle that is twice as long as it is wide. If the area of the desktop is 18ft.2, find the length and width of the desk.
I have: 2x*x=18.2
2x^2=18.2
2x^2-18.2=0
2(x^2-9.1)=02(x-3.016)(x+3.016)=0
x=3.016
Check: 3.016*6.032=18.19
(Am I figuring this right?)
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Question 248273: Solve by using Quadratic formula t^(2)+7t+4=0
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Question 248315: A Rectangular field has a length 10 feet more than it's width. If the area of the field is 264 feet, what are the dimensions
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Question 248323: find the area of a trapezoid with height of 9m and a base of 30m,34m
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Question 248324: A rectangular box with a square base is 6 centimeters taller than it is wide. If the surface area of the box is 1710 square centimeters, find the width of the base of the box in centimeters.
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Question 248612: Two of the angles of a heptagon are 150 degrees. The other 5 angles are all y. What is the value of y?
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Question 248821: Marty's goldfish is getting really big, His mom suggested he buy a tank with twice the volume. If the dimensions of Marty's fish tank are 24 in by 12 in by 18 in, which tank below would have twice the volume?
A. 4 ft by 2 ft by 1.5 ft
B. 2 ft by 2 ft by 2 ft
C. 4 ft by 2 ft by 1 ft
D. 2 ft by 1 ft by 3 ft
I chose c. wouldn't that be correct?
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Question 248897: Find the measure of an angle whose measure is 18 degrees less than one-half of the measure of its complement.
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Question 248913: If the length and width of a rectangle are each increased by 10% then the
perimeter of the rectangle is increased by
(A) 1% (B) 10% (C) 20% (D) 21%
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Question 249000: how do you draw a rectangle which is at least 25 square inches in area?
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Question 249155: A cylinder has a radius of 3 cm and a height of 8 cm. What is the longest segment, in centimeters, that would fit inside the cylinder?
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Question 249252: The length of the sides of triangle are in the rtio of 3 to 5 to 6. if the perimeter of the triangle is 70, what is the length f the longest side?
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Question 249391: what is the measure of the angel of a pentagon?
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Question 249398: The length of a rectangle is 4 inches more than its width. It 2 inches are taken from the length and added to the width, the figure becomes a square with an area of 196 square inches. What are the dimensions of the original figure?
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Question 249584: Find the area of a regular octagon inscribed into a circle of radius 1.

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Question 249624: The side of a square equals the length of a rectangle. The width of the rectangle is 4 meters longer than its length. The sum of the ares of the square and the rectangle is 240 square centimeters. Find the side of the square.
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Question 250510: WHICH SIDE IS LONGEST IN THE TRIANGLE WITH VERTICES A(1,2) B(3,-1) AND C(5,3)

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Question 250554: One acute angle of a right triangle is 5 times as large as the other. How
many degrees are there in each angle? Hint: Either of the angles, not the
right angle, is called an acute angle in the right triangle.
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Question 250528: Line M and line N are parallel lines cut by tranversal t. The value of x is 14 degrees less than the value of y. Find the values of x and y. Line N= (y-14)
The angle y has the value __
The angle x has the value __
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Question 250631: area of a rectagle garden with a lenth of 42 feet and width of 37 feet
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Question 250766: SUPPOSE THAT THE LENGTH OF A CERTAIN RECTANGLE IS THREE TIMES ITS WITDH. IF THE LENGTH IS DECREASED BY 4 INCHES AND THE WIDTH INCREASE BY 1 INCH, THE NEWLY FORMED RECTANGLE HAS AN AREA OF 40 SQUARE INCHES. FIND THE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE ORIGINAL RECTANGLE.
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Question 250888: The top of a rectangular box has an area of 96 square inches. It's side has an area 72 square inches, and it's end has area 48 square inches. What are the dimensions of the box?
Any help would be great! Thank you!
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Question 250878: A rectangular fish tank is 2 feet high and has a volume of 48 feet cubed. What could be a possible set of whole number dimensions for the base of the tank?
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Question 250996: To build a fence around a square garden Lisa and Homer use twelve fence posts which are equally spaced five feet apart. What is the area, in square feet, of their garden?
A.100 B.144 C.200 D.225 E.400

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Question 251065: if 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, about how many gallons of paint are needed to paint the outside of a sherical tank of diameter of 20 feet?
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Question 251066: if 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, about how many gallons of paint are needed to paint the outside of a spherical tank of diameter of 20 feet?
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Question 251109: if a pole is 24 feet tall and has a shadow of 8 ft, how tall is the shadow of a 72 foot pole?
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Question 251367: The length of a rectangle is fixed at 14cm. What widths will make the perimeter greater than 76cm?
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Question 251278: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at 9 feet high. Find the length of the ladder if the length is three more feet than the distance of the bottom of the ladder from the wall.
a) 9 feet b) 12 feet c) 15 feet d) 18 feet e) 21 feet
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Question 251484: Given two similar triangles, the area of the larger triangle is sixteen times the area of the smaller triangle. Find the ratio of the perimeter of the larger triangle to the perimeter of the smaller triangle .
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Question 251735: how do i solve this quadratic equation
12x^2 +10 x =0
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Question 251735: how do i solve this quadratic equation
12x^2 +10 x =0
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Question 251734: A farmer has 230 ft of fence to enclose a rectangular garden. What is the largest garden area that can be enclosed with the 230 ft of fence?
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Question 251752: Would someone mind helping me on these please?
The perimeter of a rectangle is 74 m. The length is 7 m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
What is the length?
Hockey teams receive 2 points when they win and 1 point when they tie. One season, a team won a championship with 53 points. They won 10 more games than they tied. How many wins and how many ties did the team have?

The perimeter of a rectangle is 158 inches. The length exceeds the width by 55 inches. Find the length and the width.

The Everton College store paid $1270 for an order of 28 calculators. The store paid $9 for each scientific calculator. The others, all graphing calculators, cost the store $55 each. How many of each type of calculator was ordered?
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Question 251838: The height of a box is 7 inches. Its length is 6 inches more than its width. Find the length if the volume is 280 cubic inches.
a) 40 in. b) 7 in. c) 10 in. d) 4 in. e) 13 in.
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Question 251905: A regular tetrahedron is glued to each face of a regular octahedron so that the faces are perfectly aligned. The faces of the tetrahedrons are congruent to the faces of the octahedron. How many vertices does the resulting solid have?
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Question 251904: A triangular region is enclosed by the lines y=x, y= -x, and y=7. How many lattice points are strictly inside the triangular region?
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Question 251926: the speed of a stream is 5mph. if a boat travles 40 miles downstream in the same time it takes to travel 20 miles upstream, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 251994: The edges of a cube are each 10 cm. All of the edges of a cube are reassembled to form a square. In square centimeters, compute the difference:
(Area of square) � (Surface area of cube).
A. �200 B. 0 C. 300 D. 400 E. 500

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Question 251362: The end of a flower box forms the shape of a trapezoid. The area of the trapezoid is 300 square centimeters. The bases are 16 centimeters and 24 centimeters in length. Find the height
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Question 252109: A 15-foot by 32-foot rectangular pool is surrounded by a 3-foot wide walkway so that the pool and the walkway make a larger rectangle. How many 6-inch by 6-inch square tiles are required to pave this walkway?
A. 318 B. 424 C. 636 D. 1128 E. 1272

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Question 252271: the diameter of a cone is 6-inches by 11-inches tall. What should the perimeter of the base of the cone be?
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