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Question 316749: A sqaure piece of paper has a perimeter of 64 centimeters. you tear off 1/4 of the paper to throw away your gum. what is the area of the remaining paper ?
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Question 316778: Dan and Frank are roommates. They both leave their house on their bicycles at the same time. Dan rides west for 4 miles and then south for 3 miles. Frank rides east for 1 mile and then north for 2 miles. How far apart are they when they both arrive at their destinations?
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Question 316849: The height of a triangle is four times the length of the base.Find the base and
height of the triangle if the area is 18 square inches.
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Question 316814: The measurement of angle ABD and angle CBD are in the ratio 2:3. If the measurement of angle ABC is 70, what is the measurement of angle ABD and angle CBD?
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Question 316853: One angle of a triangle measures 12 degrees.The second angle's measurement is
five times the third.What is the measure of the third angle?
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Question 316854: The length of a rectangle is three times the width.What is the width if the area
is 147 square feet?
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Question 316852: The area of a square is 64 square inches.What is the length of each side?
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Question 316851: The length of a rectangle is 5 meters longer than the width.Find the length and
width if the perimeter is 54 meters.
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Question 316753: the surface area of a right circular cylinder with a circular radius r and a height h is given by s= 2 pie r squared. explain why his is so. then find how much cardboard is needed to make a toilet paper tube if the tube is 4.5 inches long with a radius of 1 inch
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Question 316889: If the length of a rectangle is 7 more than its width and the area of the recctangle is 60 squared inches, then what are the dimensions of te rectangle?
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Question 316884: A rectangular field is 0.3 kilometers long and 0.25 kilometers wide. What is the area of the field in square meters?
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Question 316868: 21. Find the perimenter and areaof a square with side of 9 inches.
22. Find the area of a triangle with base 21 inches and height of 8 inches.
23. Find perimenter ans area of rectangle with width 3 meters and length 11 meters.
24. Find the circumference and area of a circle with diameter of 6 inches use 3.14 for ~.
25. If two angles of a triangle measure 40 degrese and 70 degrese what is the measure of the third angle
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Question 316929: a cylinder has a volume of 1000m3 what are the max dimensions
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Question 317038: Find the dimensions of a rectangle of area 225 square centimeters that has the least perimeter. What is the perimeter?
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Question 317205: A round pizza, with a diameter of 14 inches, is cut into 12 equal slices. A square pizza, with side length 12 inches, is cut into 9 equal squares. Which pizza slice, sector or square,has the greatest area? How much greater is it?
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Question 317217: Find the perimeter and area of a rectangle with width 5 centimeters and length
16 centimeters.
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Question 317216: One side of a triangle is 5 meters longer than the second side.The third side
is four times the length of the second side.If the perimeter of the triangle
is 65 meters,how long is the second side?
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Question 317213: Ten times the perimeter of a square is 360 yards.Find the length of each side
of the square.
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Question 317172: the length of a rectangle exceeds its width by 3 inches, and the area is 54 square inches. what are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 317316: one angle in a triangle is half the largest angle but three times the smallest. find all three angles.
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Question 317315: the smallest angle in a triangle is 1/5 as large as the largest angle. the third angle is twice the smallest angle. find the three angles.
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Question 317498: The volume V of a right circular cone varies jointly as the square of the radius R and the height H. Determine what happens to V when R is six times as large.
Help!
thanks
cz
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Question 317581: A Rectangular Persian Carpet has a perimeter of 164 inches. The length of the carpet is 20 inches more than the width. What are the dimensions of the carpet?
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Question 317565: One side of a square is 5 inches long. Create a rectangle with the same area as the square, but the dimensions of the length must be twice that of the width. What is the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 317723: I start with a square, increase one side by 3 cm and decrease an adjacent side by 2 cm to form a rectangle of area 24cm2. Find the perimeter of the rectangle (in cm).
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Question 317720: The height and the base of a rectangle are positive integers. When the height is
doubled and the base is tripled, the area of the new rectangle is 120 cm2. What is the smallest possible perimeter of the smaller rectangle?

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Question 318204: find the locus of all points in a plane the are equidistant from points (-3,0) and (0,3)
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Question 318203: find the locus of all points the lie on the graphs of both x+2y=1 and 2x-y=12.
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Question 318205: discribe the cross section obtained when a plane intersects a sphere radius of 4 in. through its center.
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Question 318256: My 20 ft. by 40 ft. basement flooded last night to a depth of 4 inches. How many gallons of water were down there?

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Question 318424: A triangle has a perimeter of 24 feet. The shortest side is 4 feet shorter than the longest side, and the sum of the shortest and longest sides is equal to twice the length of the other side. What are the lengths of the three sides of this triangle?
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Question 318512: rectangular room has width half of its length. When 6 is decreased from both length and width then its area is differed by 108 so find the width.
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Question 318579: I have been working on this problem and would like someone to look at it to see if I am thinking corrrectly.
The hypotemuse of a right triangle is 112in. One leg is 24in. What is the length of the second leg?
I came out with a answer of 109.40
If this is right please let them know as then I will know my formula is right.
Thank you
Mary
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Question 318594: The perimeter of a rectangle is 92 if the widths were doubled and the lengths increased by 12 the new perimeter would be 140. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 318651: the two equal side of an isosceles triangle are each 9 cm longer than the other side. if the perimeter of the triangle is 81 cm, what is the length of each side?
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Question 318649: the formula for the volume of a cylinder is V=pi r^2h, where V is the volume, r is the radius of the base and h is the height of the cylinder. Solve the given formula for h.
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Question 318648: the sum of three consecutive integers is 48. what are the numbers?
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Question 318753: The perimeter of a rectangle is 38cm. one side is 11cm longer yhan the other side. find the lengths of the sides. I know one is 2w + 2l = 38 but I need to know what the other problem needed is, because its Solving Systems of Linear Equations by substitution. Please show me how to do the problem as well.
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Question 318788: If my room is 180 square feet what is the volume in cubic centimeters
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Question 318914: An object is 144 inches tall, what is the height in yards?
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Question 319037: The perimeter of a rectangle , given that the length is x yards and the width is 10 yards shorter
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Question 319065: The width of a rectangle is fixed at 21cm. What lengths will make the perimeter greater than 74cm?
I want to make sure I am doing this right. If the width is 21, i would multiply it twice. Then the perimeter would need to be greater than 74, so I subtract 42 from 74. This would leave 32 to be divided by two for the length. So the length would have to be more than 32?
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Question 319088: Two circles each with radius of 1 are inscribed so that their centers lie along the diagonal of the square . Each circle is tangent to two sides of the square and they are tangent to each other. Find the area between the circles and the square.
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