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Question 320775: A circular coffee table has a diameter of 5 ft. What will it cost to have the
top refinished if the company charges $3 per square foot for the refinishing
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Question 320880: Ms.Rodriguez plans to order from 20 to 26 books for her class. The price of the books she plans to order range from $12.95 each. if the publisher charges a shipping fee $0.50 per book ordered, which of the following is not a reasonable price for the books, including shipping...
A.$145
B.$245
C.$345
D.$445
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Question 320894: The length of a rectangle is 3 more than four times its width. Its area is 115 square feet. What is its width
I have no idea how to solve this - please help
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Question 320896: A rectangular lot is 70 yards wide and 100 yards long.
Give the length and width of another rectangular lot that has the same perimeter but a smaller area.
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Question 320920: The length of the sides of a square and the sides of a regular octagon are the same. The area of the square is 196 square centimeters. What is the perimeter of the octagon? Express your answer in centimeters.
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Question 320917: A piece of string fits exactly once around the perimeter of a square whose area is 144. Rounded to the nearest whole number, what is the area of the largest circle that can be formed from the piece of string?
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Question 319824: A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle, the radius of the circle is 6 cm. Find the area of the triangle.
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Question 319937: Hi can you ohelp me with this problem thank you the area of a rectangle is 32 square feet. The width is half of the length find the length. Thank you!
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Question 321129: flat-panel monitor are such that its length is 3 in. more than its width. If the length were doubled and if the width were decreased by 1 the area would be increased by 150 in. squared. What are the length and width of the flat panel.
This is from beginning algebra book tenth edition, chapter 6.6 applications of quadratic equations. Do I need to solve this problem with the formula P=2L+2W or A=LW, then move into standard form. Once it's in standard form I can figure out the problem. Please Help! Not sure how to write out the problem.
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Question 321119: If one side of a square is increased by 8 cm and an adjacent side decreased by 2 cm a rectangle is formed whose permeter is 40 cm. Find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 321099: A merchant estimates that he can sell every one of his 60 tomatoes at the current price of 10 cents per tomatoe. For every day that he waits, the price of tomatoes will increase by 1 cent each, but the tomatoes will spoil at a rate of 2 per day. If all the tomatoes are sold on the same day, determine how many days he should wait before selling so as to maximize the income from these tomatoes.
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Question 321272: what is the area of a square mearuring 57km on a side
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Question 321306: Find the length (x) of the hexagon, if its area is 144 cm^2. The sides' measurement are these:
x:10:6:x
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Question 321391: If the diameter of a circle is
1.3 x 10-12 meters, then what is its radius?
Sorry not sure how to do powers on here, that is suppose to read 1.3 x 10 to the negative 12th power...
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Question 321437: Mathilda has used square tiles to completely cover a rectangular surface of 81 cm by 72 cm. What is the length of the side of the smallest tile she has used?
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Question 321309: A woodcutter determines the height of a tall tree by first measuring a smaller one 125 ft away, then moving so that his eyes are in the line of sight along the tops of the trees, and measuring how far he is standing from the small tree. Suppose the small tree is 20 ft tall, the man is 25 ft from the small tree, and his eye level is 5 ft above the ground. How tall is the taller tree?
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Question 321660: find the suface area of a rectangular prism with base 4m by 5m and height 8m
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Question 321873: If each side of a square is increased by 20% in its length, by how much will the area of square be increased?

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Question 321924: The area of a rectangle is 116 square inches. What are its possible whole number dimensions?
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Question 321938: 2. The captain of a riverboat charges $36 per person including lunch. The cruise averages 300 customers a day. The captain is considering increasing the price. A survey of the customers indicates that for every $2 increase, there would be 10 fewer customers. What increase in price would maximize the revenue?
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Question 322013: The width of a rectangle is 6 feet, and the diagonal is 10 feet. What is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 322005: The triangle with the vertices (1, 1), (4, 5), and (0, 2) is:
(A) A scalene triangle (B) An isosceles triangle (C) An equilateral triangle
(D) A right triangle (E) None of the above
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Question 322029: What does it mean to refer to a 20-in TV set or a 25-in TV set? Such units refer to the diagonal of the screen. A 20-in TV set also has a width of 16-in. What is its height?
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Question 322042: In the right triangle find the length of the side not given. Give an exact answer and an approximation to three decimal places. A=2 and B=4 thanks.
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Question 322046: What is the value of the radius of the following circle with an area of 154 cm^2?

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Question 321933: triangle has a perimeter of 36 centimeters. If the length of each side is increased by 50%
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Question 322151: If one can construct an angle of 36 degrees, one can use the angle bisector construction to construct an angle of
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Question 322333: Find the measure of the angles of a triangle if the measure of the first is four times the measure of the second angle and the third angle is 18 degrees more than the second angle.
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Question 322348: in square ABCD , p is the midpoint of DC and Q is the midpoint of AD. if the area of the quadrilateral QBCP is 15. what is the area of square ABCD ?
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Question 322452: The length of one side of an equilateral triangle is 10 cm. what is the altitude of the triangle?
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Question 322449: Two angles of a triangle measure 75� and 51�. The side opposite the largest angle measures 25 inches. How long is the shortest side?
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Question 322535: If possible, give the name of the convex polygon in which the sum of the interior angles equals 1260�.
hexagon
heptagon
nonagon
no such polygon exists
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Question 322586: How do I set up this story problem?
The width of a rectangle is three-fifths the length. If the perimeter is 80, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 322759: You have a rectangular space in your yard that you want to put a border around. You find that 60 feet of border material is needed. The length of the rectangle is exactly one-half the width. What are the dimensions of the space in your yard?
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Question 322853: jarod in having a problem with rabbits in his veggie garden so he decides to fence it in. the length of the garden is 7 ft more than 3 times the width he needs 78 ft of fencing to do the job.
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Question 322865: A 78cm long is cut along the center, its string is form into square. Which is one longer than the other??
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Question 322887: If possible, give the name of the convex polygon in which the sum of the interior angles equals 1260�
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Question 322922: The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangular advertising display is approximately 3.3 to 2.If the width of the display is 8 meters, what is the approximate length of the display in meters ?
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Question 322961: A cylindrical drum has a diameter of 3 feet and stands 5 feet high. What is the volume of the drum? (Hint: Use
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Question 323551: if a olympic swimming pool is twice as long as it is wide and ther perimeter is 150 meters then what are the lenght and width?
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Question 323888: The length of a rectangular swimming
pool is 2x - 1 meters, and the width is x + 2 meters. Write
a polynomial A(x) that represents the area. Find A(5).
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Question 324006: how do you find the missing lenght of a side if the perimeter is 115 ft
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Question 324017: A rectangle has a length of 80in and a width of 34in. What is it's perimeter?
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