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Question 285026: The area of a rectangular parking lot os 1800 sq m. The width is 14 m less than the length. What are the dimensions?
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Question 285280: the point inside a circle that is the same distance from every point on the circle, i put diameter? what is the correct anwseR?
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Question 285277: the set of points in a plane that are a fixed distance from a given point, is called what? i put composition figure but i am unsure?
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Question 285326: I have a rectangular garden with an area of 99 square meters. if the with of the garden is 9 meters. what is the perimeter of the garden?
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Question 285709: ABCD is a square. If one side of the square measures 2x � 5 inches and the other side measures x + 8 inches, find x
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Question 285808: Box needs to measure 10 cm by 5 cm by 5 cm 10 percent?
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Question 285817: the sum of two numbers is twenty five the total of four times the smaller number and two is six less than the product of two and the number. Find two numbers
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Question 285786: A rectangle is inscribed in a circle and the ratio between its width and length is 3:4.What is the ratio between the area of the rectangle and the area of the circle?
A. 12 : 25π B. 12 : 25 C. 48 : 25 π D. 25 : 48 E. None of these.
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Question 285732: the perimeter of a rectangle is 148 m. The length is 2 m more than twice the width. what is the dimensions
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Question 285902: the perimeter of a rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width, the perimeter is 40 meters and te length is 2 meters more than twice its width what is the length
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Question 285775: A 3 inch border is added around a photograph of unknown dimensions. If the length of the photo is one inch less than twice the width of the photo, and the area of the photo and border together is 130 square inches, what is the area of the photo?
A. 15 in2 B. 28 in2 C. 45 in2 D. 66 in2 E. None of these.

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Question 286030: A parallelogram and a triangle have equal areas. The base and height of the parallelogram are 12 and 9. If the base of the triangle is 36, find its height.
A. 12 B. 9 C. 6 D. 3 E. None of these
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Question 286192: The framework of a wall is 3 1/2 in. thick. We apply 5/8 in. wallboard and 1/4 in. paneling to the inside. Siding that is 3/4 in. thick is applied to the outside. What is the finished thickness of the wall? Could you please help me with this problem? Thank you.
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Question 286106: find the square footage of the lot to be seeded. the house measures 51ft 8in by 25ft 4in. the garage is 31 feet 6in by 20feet. the driveway is 32feet by 30feet. the rectangular inground swimming pool is 100 feet by 40. the garden is 40 feet by 30 feet. the basketball area is 40 feet by 40 feet
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Question 286270: how do you explain the open ended problem
a rectangular room is 12 feet wide and 18 feet long .what is the area of the room ?.
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Question 286329: What are the length and width of the garden?
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Question 286489: the perimeter of a rectangle is 74 inches. If the width is doubled and the length is halved, the new rectangle will have a perimeter is 76 inches. What are the dimensions?
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Question 286700: An interesting method for solving quadratic equations came from India. The steps are:
(a) Move the constant term to the right side of the equation
(b) Multiply each term in the equation by four times the coefficient of the x^2 term
(c) Square the coefficient of the original x term and add it to both sides of the equation
(d) Take the square root of both sides
(e) Set the left side of the equation to the positive square root of the number on the right side and solve for x
(f) Set the left side of the equation to the negative square root of the number on the right side of the equation and solve for x

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Question 285279: an angle whose vertex is the center of the regular polygon and whose sides pass through consecutive vertices, is called what? i put apothem? but im not sure.
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Question 286783: A right triangle has legs with lengths of 25 cm and 37 cm. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
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Question 286917: hello,
i am having great difficulty with trigonometry. can u please help by providing a step by step solution to the following question. thank you very much.
Question:
A ship sails 12 km due north of a port and then sails 14 km due east.
(a) How far is the ship from the port?
(b) How much further east will it have sailed when it is 30 km from the port?
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Question 286953: what is the dimensions of a rectangle that has a perimeter of 122.

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Question 287110: a triangle has a base of 8 cm and a height of 12cm
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Question 287191: A rectangular field is 80 m long and 60 m wide. If fence posts are placed at the corners and are 10 m apart along the 4 sides of the field, how many posts are needed to completely fence the field?
(A) 24 (B) 26 (C) 28 (D) 30 (E) 32
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Question 287273: An athlete runs 105cm south and 80cm west. How far is he from the starting point?

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Question 287275: A young man 150cm tall cast a shadow that was 200cm long. His father's shadow cast at the same time of day was 240cm long. How tall was his father?
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Question 287271: A flag pole 24 foot high is 10 foot away from the base of its anchor cable. How long is the anchor cable?
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Question 287398: find the length of a side of a square whose area is 300cm^2
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Question 287402: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 16 inches longer than the shortest side and 8 inches longer than the remainig side. Find the dimensions of the triangle
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Question 287478: A large piece of rectagular fabric that is 3ft. wide and 4ft. long. What is the perimiter of each fabric?
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Question 287595: A square is inscribed inside a quadrant of a circle of radius 10 cm. Calculate the area of the square.
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Question 287582: If a ball and a cube have the same volume, what is the ratio between the surface areas of the ball and the cube?
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Question 287659: If you have a peice of paper that is 84" x 84". You are trying to make a box our of it and cut our squares in each corner. What is the maximum volume the box can be?
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Question 287594: The area of the smallest square that will contain a circle of radius 4 is
A) 8 B) 16 C) 32 D) 64 E) 128
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Question 287667: COMPARING AREAS
A WIRE 390 IN. LONG IS CUT INTO TWO PIECES. ONE PIECE IS FORMED INTO A SQUARE. THE OTHER PIECE IS FORMED INTO A CIRCLE. IF THE TWO FIGURES HAVE THE SAME AREA, WHAT ARE THE LENGTHS OF THE TWO PIECES OF WIRE (TO THE NEAREST TENTH OF AN IN.)
THANKS.
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Question 287584: Find the area of the circle inscribed inside the triangle with all three sides of length 12.

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Question 287782: A meter stick is held perpendicular to the ground. It casts a shadow 1.5 meter long. At the same time, a telephone pole casts a shadow that is 9 meters long. How tall is the telephone pole?
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Question 287762: The length of a rectangular flower bed is 11 ft. less than 3 times its width. The area of the bed is 20ft^2. Find the dimensions of the flower bed.
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Question 287949: A ranger in fire tower A spots a fire at a direction of 32�. A ranger in fire tower B, which is 22 miles directly east of tower A, spots the same fire at a direction of 58�. How far from tower B is the fire? (Hint: Draw a picture of this one.)
I need help with this problem. We can not get an answer from our instructor about how to solve it.
Thank you.
Carro
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Question 287987: Circles A, B, and C are externally tangent to each other. AB= 10 cm, BC= 12cm, and CA=16. Find the measures of the radii of circles A, B, and C.
C>A>B
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Question 288043: A square and a triangle have equal perimeters. The lengths of the
sides of the triangle are 6.2 cm, 8.2 cm and 9.6 cm. What is the area of
the square in centimetres?
a) 24 b) 25 c) 36 d) 48 e) 64
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Question 288210: A water sprinkler sprays water over a distance of 40ft, while rotating angle of 1550ft.What area of the lawn recieves water?
I know I should be working with an area of 360 degrees?

I have the possible answers to this and have been working on it all day, but cannot get the correct answer or near?
Thank You
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Question 288306: Two squares have sides of lengths x cm and( 2x + l) cm. The sum of the perimeters of the two squares equals 88 cm. The length of each side of the larger square is
(a) 7 (b) 15 (c) 29 (d) 57 (e) none of these
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