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Question 258489: A rectangle has a perimeter of 60 inches and lenth of 22 inches. What is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 258630: i have no type of idea how to find out to solve nothing i appreciate n thank you
a stake is to be driven into the ground away from the base of a 50foot pole,a wire from the stake on the ground to the top of the pole is to be installed at an angle of elevation of 52degrees.

This is like the triangle on the paper being that b is 5o foot pole,A is 52 degress and C is the wire
how far away from the base of the pole should the stake be driven in,to the NEAREST foot? what will be the length of the wire from the stake to the top of the pole, to the NEAREST foot?
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Question 258685: a stake is to be driven into the ground away from the base of a 50foot pole,a wire from the stake on the ground to the top of the pole is to be installed at an angle of elevation of 52degrees.

This is like the triangle on the paper being that b is 50 foot pole,
the stake is at the end of A n it is 52 degrees and C is the wire
how far away from the base of the pole should the stake be driven in,to the NEAREST foot? what will be the length of the wire from the stake to the top of the pole, to the NEAREST foot?''.
i need two different answers right? please help and thank you
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Question 258740: Triangle ABC has sides with lengths 10, 23 and 27 units. The perimeter of a particular square is 60% of triangle ABC�s perimeter. What is the area of the square?
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Question 258907: if the area is 361 in2, what is the perimeter of the square?
show the work please .
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Question 258904: if the perimeter of a square is 280cm, what is the area of the square?
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Question 258909: if 19 retangular mats measuring 1.85 m. by 5.2 m. are ordered to cover a new work space, what is the area of the wrok space?
show work .
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Question 258963: a 19-inch television has a rectangular screen whose diagonal measures 19 inches. If the width of the screen is 15 inches, what is its height to the nearest inch?
Please show me how you arrived at the answer. I would like to be able to go over this with my 14 year old son in 8th grade. Thank you.
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Question 258991: Jan paints with oil paints on a canvas that is 22 inches wide by 17 inches high. she then places the canvas on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of mat shows all around the painting. The perimeter of the mat is 102 inches. How wide is the mat around the oil painting?
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Question 259071: A square's side is increased by 10 yards, which corresponds to an increase in the area by 400 square yards. How many yards is the side of the initial square?
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Question 259133: A farmer has 200 feet of fencing. Using a barn as one side, the farmer wants to create a rectangular pen with three areas using the fencing. What are the dimensions of the pen that give the farmer the greatest enclosed area?
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Question 259113: A local monument casts a shadow 111 feet long at the same time a 50-foot telephone pole casts a shadow 10 feet long. How high is the monument?
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Question 259112: A Flagpole casts a 75-foot shadow at the same time a tree 20 feet tall casts a shadow of 30 feet. How tall is the flagpole
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Question 259108: A tree cast a shadow 60 Feet long. At the same time, an 8-foot post casts a 12-foot shadow. How tall is the tree
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Question 259157: The base angle of an isosceles triangle is 4 times as large as the vertex angle. Find the measure of the base angle to the nearest hundreth
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Question 259283: How do you solve the grain silo problem?

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Question 259369: If a triangle shaped dog house is 6meters on each side how much fencing is needed to enclose it on all sides
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Question 259474: a certain store has a fax machine available for use by its customers. The store charges $2.35 to send the first page and $0.50 for each subsequent page. Use an inequality to find the maximum number of pages that can be faxed for $8.35
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Question 259475: x(7x-5)+4=7x(x-4)+x
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Question 259504: the length of a rectangle is 3 cm more than the width. the area is 70cm^2. find the demensions of the rectangle
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Question 259521: The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 150. Find the numbers
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Question 259700: A hexagon is inscribed in a circle. If each side of the hexagon is 3, what is the area of the circle?

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Question 259697: The ratio of a rectangle�s length to the length of a square�s side is 3:1. If the area of the square is 36, and the rectangle�s width is 2, what is the area of the rectangle?
(A) 24 (B) 36 (C) 72 (D) 108 (E) 216

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Question 259812: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. If the length is decreased by 4 m and the width is increased by 1 m. te perimeter will be 66 m. What are the dimensions of the original rectangle?
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Question 259881: The hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle measures 15 feet. Find the area.
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Question 259881: The hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle measures 15 feet. Find the area.
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Question 259951: The perimeter of the top of a square night stand is 40 inches. What is the Area of the night stand in square inches?
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Question 259950: IF THE LONG SIDE OF A [RIGHT] TRIANGLE IS 49.0 FEET AND THE SHORT SIDE IS 14.03 FEET, THEN WHAT IS ITS AREA OF THE TRIANGLE IN SQUARE FEET?

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Question 259981: two buildings are 200ft apart. the height of the tallest building is 135ft. the angle of depression from the top of the tallest building to the top of the shorter building is 7. find the height of the shorter building to the nearest foot.
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Question 259993: A square shaped garden has a diagonal that measures 15 feet what are the dimensions of the garden

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Question 260087: A common design for a swimming pool is for the depth to change gradually from the shallow end to the deep end. Use the dimensions shown to find the volume of water the pool can hold .
30ft
10ft-highest depth
4ft-lowest depth
15ft
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Question 260219: In a circle with radius 13, two parallel chords with length 10 are joined to create a rectangle. Find the area of this rectangle.

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Question 260243: Fencing dog pens. Clint is constructing two adjacent
rectangular dog pens. Each pen will be three times as long
as it is wide, and the pens will share a common long side.
If Clint has 65 ft of fencing, what are the dimensions of
each pen?
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Question 260201: 16. The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle exceeds the length of the base by 2 cm and exceeds, twice the length of the altitude by 1 cm. Find the length of each side of the triangle.
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Question 260259: Please help me solve:
One side of a triangle is 4 cm shorter than the base, x. The other side is 6 cm longer than the base. What lengths of the base will allow the perimeter of the triangle to be at least 29 cm? Use P = s1 + s2 + s3.
I must show the 5 steps for problem solving.
Thank you for your assistance!
Liz
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Question 260314: A photograph measures 20 cm by 16 cm. A strip of constant width is to be cut off the top and one side of the photo, so the area is reduced to 60% of the area of the original photo. Find the width of the cut.
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Question 260429: "What is the number of triangles formed in a decagon when all the diagonals from one vertex are drawn?"
What does this mean and how do I figure it out?
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Question 260398: Find the equation of the line through (2,a) and (9,b).
y=___________
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Question 260420: A hospital staff member mixed a 65% disinnfectant solution with a 15% disinfectant solution. How many liters of each were used to make 50 liters of a 37% disfectant solution?
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Question 260729: the cost of enclosing a rectangular garden with a fence all around ,at the rate of 75 paise per metre , is rs 300.if the length of the garden is 120m ,find the area of field in square metres.
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Question 260858: The perimeter of a triangle is 34in. The middle side is twice as long as the shortest side. The longest side is 2in. less than 3 times the shortest side. Find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 260926: A semicircular window of radius 16 inches is to be laminated with a sunblock coating that costs $0.65 per square inch to apply. what is the total cost of coating the window, to the nearest cent? (Use n=3.14. Hint: Area of Circle: A=nr^2)
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