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Question 318974: The angle is 10degrees less than twice its supplement...find the angle?
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Question 319198: A swimming pool is 350dm long. how many times must you swim back and forth to go a distance of 800m?
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Question 319429: The width of a rectangle is 4 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 177 cm^2, what is the length of the diagonal?
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Question 319494: Let A be the ratio of the volume of a sphere to the volume of a cube each of whose face is tangent to the sphere, and let B be the ratio of the surface area of this sphere to the surface area of the cube. Then find the sum A and B.
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Question 319605: find y so that x^2+(y+1)x+y+4=0 has only one solution (i am not asking you to solve the quadratic in terms of y)
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Question 319608: The product of two consecutive numbers is 9120 what is the smaller of the two numbers?
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Question 319608: The product of two consecutive numbers is 9120 what is the smaller of the two numbers?
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Question 319607: jon and sue are going to elope. Jon brings a ladder to sue window the ladder is 1 foot more than the vertical distance from the ground to the bottom of her window.In order for the ladder to just reach the bottom of her window .Jon should place the bottom of the ladder 9 feet away from the side of the house.How long is the ladder?

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Question 319606: a baseball league they want to have each team play each other team twice.They schedule 306 games.How many teams are there?
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Question 319610: When the sides of an equilateral triangle are 6 inches long, the area of the triangle is approximately 15.6 square inches. What would be the approximate area of an equilateral triangle whose sides are 12 inches long? (round to the tenth)
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Question 319604: i throw a ball into the air in a movie theater.Ithrow it up with an initial velocity of 64 feet from a balcony 10 feet high .The ceiling of the theater is 58 feet high.When will the ball hit the ceiling

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Question 319452: The width of a rectangle is fixed at 16cm. What lengths will make the perimeter greater than 94 cm. The length must be greater than ? cm
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Question 319535: whats another word problem for 28.5

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Question 319685: A building that is 150 ft tall casts a shadow of 20 feet long. At the same time a tree casts a shadow of 2 ft. How tall is the tree?
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Question 319663: A rectangular table has legs of unequal length. Two legs on one diagonal of the table measure 24 and 28 inches and a third leg measures 30 inches. What should the fourth leg measure so that the table can rest on a level floor without wobbling?
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Question 319498: My bicycle has a rear wheel whose diameter is 1.2 times as big as the diameter of
the front wheel. As I ride my bicycle, if the front wheel turns 120 times, how many times the rear wheel will turn?
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Question 319738: The length of a rectangle is six times its width.
If the perimeter of the rectangle is 70 yd , find its area.

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Question 319781: A dog runs along a path near a square garden with side length 10 m . it runs once around always staying exactly 1 m from the edge of the garden . to the nearest meter , how far does the dog run ?
A) 40 m B) 44 m C) 46 m D) 48 m E) 50 m
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Question 319759: Thomas has an enormous stamp collection. He has wallpapered one wall of his house with stamps that are square with sides that are one and one-quarter inches long. How many stamps were used to cover the wall, which is 10 feet tall and
25 feet long?
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Question 319800: Find the coordinates of the center of the circle and length of the radius given the equation of that circle which is
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Question 319800: Find the coordinates of the center of the circle and length of the radius given the equation of that circle which is
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Question 319797: What is the area of a triangle with lengths of sides of 20, 31 and 43?
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Question 319932: What is the circumference of a circle if the area is ?
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Question 319932: What is the circumference of a circle if the area is ?
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Question 320077: A cube has edges that are 6 centimeters long. How many times greater is the volume of a cube with 9 centimeter sides?
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Question 320099: A circle of diameter 10 circumscribed by a right-angled isosceles triangle.
Determine the perimeter of the triangle.
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Question 320076: A circle is inscribed in a regular pentagon. The perimeter of the pentagon is 150 cm. Find the area of the circle.

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Question 320242: The second angle of a triangle is 3 times as large as the first. The third angle is 55� more than the first. Find the measure of the smallest angle.

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Question 320240: The height of a triangle is six feet less than twice the base. If the area is 70 squae feet. Find the base and the height
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Question 320271: A rectangular field is 100 meters long and 65 meters wide.
Give the length and width of another rectangular field that has the same perimeter but a larger area.
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Question 320385: ind the base of triangle if area is 30 cm2 and height exceeds the base by 7cm
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Question 320432: jim raced his horse 3 times around a circular track with a adius of 18 meters. How many meters did they cover?
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Question 320430: a rectangular building lot 80ft wide contains 3600 square ft. How many feet are in the perimeter of the lot?

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Question 320506: Algebra
the perimeter of a square is 220 feeT? what is the length of each side?
2. A trapezoid has bases 11cm and 4 cm, and a height of 9 cm. What is the area?
3. A rectangular piece of cardboard has a length of 16 inches and an area of 192 square inches. What is the length of the cardboard?
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Question 320488: A right triangle has area of 6in2. If all the dimensions are multiplied by 4, what will the area of the new triangle be?
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Question 320471: I decide to take up alpaca farming. I will build an alpaca pen next to my house. (Since it is next to my house, I don't need any fencing on the side where my house is. My house is huge, so I dont have to worry about that side being too short.) I have 800 feet of fencing. I am going to make a rectangular fence.
a. if I want the pen to have an area of 15,200 sq feet, what should the dimensions be?
b. I want to give my alpacas as much room as possible. What is the most area I can have in this rectangular pen, using my 800 feet of fencing?
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Question 320605: The length of a rectangular carpet is 5.5' greater than twice the width. The area is 90. Find the dimensions
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Question 320677: Which of the following circles would show the locus of points in a plane 1 unit from the intersection of the lines x + y = 2 and x - y = 4?
a. center (4,2), radius = 1
b. center (3,-1), radius = 1
c. center (3,1), radius = 1
d. center (0,0), radius = 1
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Question 320726: The area of the rectangle is 100 square cm. If a square built using a diagonal of this rectangle as one of its sides, the square has area 700 square cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 320779: The distance from Philadelphia to Sea Isle City is 100 mi. A car was driven this
distance using tires with a radius of 14 in. How many revolutions of each tire
occurred on the trip?
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Question 320790: When a hexagon has 2-inch sides, its area is about 10.4in2. What will be the approximate area of a hexagon whose sides are 10 inches long??
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Question 320802: Very confusing for me , need helping solving. Thank you.
Use the theoretical probability formula to solve the following problem.
Express the probability as a fraction reduced to lowest terms.
A 12-sided die is rolled. The set of equally likely outcomes is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12}. Find the probability of rolling a 4.
The probability of rolling a 4 is ____
(integer or simplified fraction)
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Question 320777: An A-frame cabin has a triangular front with a base of 30 ft and a
height of 20 ft. If the front is to be glass that costs $3 per square foot, what will the
glass cost?
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