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Question 273868: Two poles, 30 feet and 50 feet tall, are 40 feet apart and perpendicular to the ground. The poles are supported by wires attached from the top of each pole to the bottom of the other, as in the figure. A coupling is placed at C where the tow wires cross.
Find x, the distance from C to the taller pole?
How high above the ground is the coupling?
How far down the wire from the smaller pole is the coupling?
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Question 275225: A rectangular lot whose perimeter is 1600 feet is fenced along three sides. An expensive fencing along the lots length costs $20 per foot. An inexpensive fencing along the two sides costs only $5 per foot. the total cost of the fencing along the three sides is $13,000. What are the lots dimensions?
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Question 275365: Medicaid spending. The cost in billions of dollars for
federal Medicaid (health care for the poor) can be modeled
by the equation
C = 3.2n + 65.3,
where n is the number of years since 1990 (Health Care
Financing Administration, www.hcfa.gov).
a) What was the cost of federal Medicaid in 2000?
b) In what year will the cost reach $150 billion?
c) Graph the equation for n ranging from 0 through 20.
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Question 275455: a 26-inch pieve of steel is cut into three pieces so that the second piece is twice as long the first piece, and the third piece is two inches more than three times the length of the first piece. Find the lengths of the pieces.
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Question 275869: 2 parallel lines are located 4 inches apart. An equilateral triangle with 5 inch sides is drawn in the same plane. What is the maximum number of intersections possible between the 2 parallel lines and the triangle.
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Question 275915: The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than three times the width. Find the dimensions of this rectangle if the area is 21 cm^2.
I found the answer by trial and error (9 & 2 1/3) but I need to know how to actually figure it out and show work. Is there another way besides just plugging in numbers? Thank you!
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Question 276249: I would really appreciate help with this problem. Thanks!
Shipping: A shipping box is reinforced with steel bands in all three directions. A total of 20.5 feet of steel tape is to be used, with 6 inches of waste because of a 2 inch overlap in each direction. If the box has a square base and a volume of 2 cubic feet, find the dimensions.
If you could also show me how to check the answer I would really appreciate it.
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Question 276490: A triangle with sides of length 13, 14 and 15 inches is to be cut whole from a rectangular sheet of paper. Expressed in square inches, what is the minimum area that this rectangular sheet can have?
(a) 168 (b) 174 (c) 188 (d) 202 (e) None of the above
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Question 276569: The Forever Green Nursery owns 7000 white pine trees. Each year the nursery plans to sell 12% of the trees and to then plant 600 new ones. Dale the nursery manager, thinks this is a good idea because they will never run out of trees to sell. Chris, the nursery accountant and bookkeeper, thinks that they will eventually run out of trees. Who is right, Dale or Chris? If Chris is right, when will they run out of trees?
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Question 277089: Suzy wears a baseball cap all the time to emphasize that she is a tomboy. She’s always setting up a problem to solve. Today, she wants to figure out the distance across a nearby river. She can’t swim, but she does have a yardstick. Can you suggest a way for her to find the distance without adding additional measuring tools? Please explain.
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Question 277395: While rummaging in his great aunt's attic, Bernard found a small figurine that he believed to be made out of silver. To test his guess, he looked up the density of silver in his chemistry book and found that it was 10.5 g/cm^3. He found that the figure weighed 149 grams. To determine its volume, he dropped it into a cylindrical glass of water. If the diameter of the glass was 6 centimeters, and the figurine was pure silver, by how much should the water level in the glass rise?
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Question 277616: Jarod is having a problem with rabbits getting in his vegetable garden, so he decides to fence it in. The length of the garden is 12 feet more than 5 times the width. He needs 132 feet of fencing to do the job. Find the length and width of the garden.
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Question 277382: I would really appreciate help with this problem. Thanks! I submitted this question once but I am still not sure of the answer. Could you also walk me through checking the answer.
Shipping: A shipping box is reinforced with steel bands in all three directions. A total of 20.5 feet of steel tape is to be used, with 6 inches of waste because of a 2 inch overlap in each direction. If the box has a square base and a volume of 2 cubic feet, find the dimensions.
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