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Question 324105: In rhombus WXYZ, the measure of WX is 21 feet, and the measure of angle W is 62�. Determine the measures of the other three sides and the other three angles of the rhombus.
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Question 324170: perimeter of a rectangle. 10ft. long by 6ft.8in. wide?
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Question 324155: All of the rooms in a building are rectangular, with nine-foot ceilings. One room is 10 feet wide by 14 feet long. What is the combined area of the four walls, including doors and windows?
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Question 324206: Can anyone help me with this word problem? A farmer has a square plot of land. An irrigation system can be installed with the option of one large circular sprinkler or nine small sprinklers. Which plan will provide water to the greatest percentage of land in the field regardless of cost or watering pattern?
Any help would be appreciated!!
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Question 324352: A farmer owns a square field of side with a pole in one of the corners to which he tied his cow with a rope whose length is about is 10 m . what is the area available for the cow to grace.
A.150 sq.m b.125sq,m c.75sq.m d. not enough data.
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Question 324404: every 20 minutes from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., a commuter train crosses main street. for 3 minutes a gate stops cars from passing as the train goes by. what is the probability that a motorist approching the train crossing during this time interval will have to stop for the train?
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Question 324337: ok now if an triangle measures 60 degrees width 140 degrees hieghth what is c squared
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Question 324379: Jeremey sits on his back deck watching a plane prepare for landing. He is sitting 22 ft above the ground and he is 87 ft away from the big pine tree that defines his backyard. He notes that as the plane is directly over his pine tree he is looking at the plane with an angle that is about 60 degrees above horizontal. Given this info, find the height of the plane as it passes over Jeremy's pine.
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Question 324493: The floor area of a garage 65ft. by 85ft. is to be increased by 1,000 sq. ft. If it is made 6ft. longer, by how much will the width have to be increased?
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Question 324469: the length of a rectangle is 4meters greater than its width. the area is 96 meters square. what is the length and width
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Question 324696: If a floor has a perimeter of 288 feet and the length is two times the width how do you find the width and length?
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Question 324777: The area of a swimming pool is 3oo square feet. If the length is three times the width of the pool, what are the dimensions of the bottom of the pool?
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Question 324636: A swimming pool 100m long and 40m wide is 1m deep at the shallow end and 5m at the deep end. Find the volume (in cubic mts) of water contained in the pool.
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Question 324870: Hello, I heard that your web site helps student I been out school for 10 years and I have a college math problem. Could someone please help me.
Here is the problem:
Mendel Revisited A pea plant must have exactly one of each of the following pairs of traits: short (s) or tall (t); round (r) or wrinkled (w) seeds; yellow (y) or green (g) peas; and white (wh) or purple (p) flowers (for example, short, wrinkled, green pea with white flowers).

� a)How many different classifications of pea plants are possible?
� b)Use a tree diagram to determine all the classifications possible.
� c)If each characteristic is equally likely, find the probability that the pea plant will have round peas.
� d)Determine the probability that the pea plant will be short, have wrinkled seeds, have yellow seeds, and have purple flowers.
I am so lost and don't know where to start, my baby is running fever and this is due tonight, if you can help me I be happy to donate to this web site.
Thank you again
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Question 324932: Hello, Can someone help me with this problem,I did get an answer but I not sure if it is correct. Thank you.
A card is picked from a standard deck of cards. Determine the odds against and the odds in favor of selectin�
a card greater than 5 (ace is low).
ANSWER:
There are 36 cards greater then 5
= 36/52
= This means that 36/52 reduces to 9/13
What are the odds in favor 36:52 or 9:13
What are the odds against 52:36 or 13:9
Thank you again.
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Question 324958: Could you please help me with setting up this problem. I can solve the mathematics but do not remember the formula for setting up the problem.
Find the dimensions of the rectangle box of least surface area that has a volume of 1000 cubic inches
Thank you so much for your time and help
Gina
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Question 324959: what number is used to complete the square for the equation r^2-3r=4

a.)-2.25
b.)1.5
c.)2.5
d.)2.25
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Question 324944: If a wall height is 3ft. 6in. and the base is 6ft. 6in. What is the diagonal?(Hypotenuse) This is a Pythagorean theorem ? Do you have to convert this to inches first then back to feet/inch?
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Question 325023: you and a friend take separate vacation. leaving the same airport, you fly 100 miles due west, then 50 miles at a 20 degrees NE angle. your friend flies 100 miles due east, then 50 miles 30 degree SW angle. which of you vacation further from the airport?
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Question 325135: A circular coin has a radius of 3/8 inch.When lying flat, how much area does the coin cover, in square inches?
A.3pi/4 B.3pi/16 C.6pi/16 D.9pi/8

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Question 325158: what is the perimeter,in meters.of a rectangular play groung 24 meters wide that has a same area as a rectangular play groung 64 meters long and 48 meters wide.
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Question 325212: Can anyone help me figure this out? A tennis ball can in the shape of a right circular cylinder holds three balls snugly, if the radius of a tennis ball is 3.5cm, what percentage of the can is occupied by air?
I know the radius of the ball so I can figure the area of the top and bottom of the cylinder: a = pi r^ so a= 3.14 (3.5)^ = 3.14 x 12.12 = 38.465
I can also figure the area of a sphere for the balls: pi r cubed
3.14(3.5)cubed = 3.14 x 42.875 = 134.6275
for three balls they're taking up 403.8825 space in the can.
I need the height of the can to figure total volume of the can to subtract the amount the balls take up but I'm not sure how to come up with that?
Any help would be appreciated!!

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Question 325207: Can anyone help me with this word problem? I've got two freezers one measures 1.5ft x 1.5ft x 5ft and sales for $350 another for 2ft x 2ft x 4ft and sales for $400. Which is a better buy in terms of dollars per cubic foot?
Any help would be appreciated!
I multiplied the space and divided by the dollar amt:
1.5 x 1.5 x 5 = 11.25 / 350 = 0.032
2 x 2 x 4 = 16 / 400 = 0.04
not sure if this is right?

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Question 325181: A farmer owns a square field of side with a pole in one of the corners to which he tied his cow with a rope whose length is about is 10 m . what is the area available for the cow to grace.

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Question 325183: A swimming pool 100 metres long and 40 metres wide is 1 metre deep at the shallow end and 5 metre at the deep end. Find the volume (in cubic metres) of water contained in the pool.
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Question 325291: the sum of twice one number and three times a second number is 84 sum of thrice the first number and five times the second is 136.what is the number?

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Question 325202: Can anyone help me with this word problem? I have a right square pyramid with the height of 148m and a square base with a perimeter of 940m and another right square pyramid with a square base with a perimeter of 140m and height of 260m, which has the greater volume and by how many times as great?
V- 1/3 bh, right? I have the perimeter so for each, I would multiply that by the height then divide by 3?
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Question 325345: Fire fighters sprayed a 9 inch thick layer of foam over a burning rectangle region 10 yards wide and 48 feet long .what volume of foam was used on the fire ?
A 40 cu yd B 120 cu yd C 240 cu yd D 480 cu yd E 4500 cu yd

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Question 325630: Mang Gorio has 150 meters of fencing material to enclose a rectangular garden. The garden's length is 5 meters less than 3 times its width. Find the area of the garden.
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Question 326163: Find the dimensions of a rectangular box with the width that is 3 times the height and length that is 6 inches more than the height. The volume is 15 cubic inches.
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Question 326076: A farmer decides to enclose a rectangular garden, using the side of a barn as one side of the rectangle. What is the mazimum area that the farmer can enclose with 100 ft of fence? What should the dementions of the garden be to give this area?
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Question 326249: Can anyone help me with this cone problem? I have no idea where to begin. A girl wants to calculate the height of a tee-pee, she is 112cm tall. When she stands inside with her head touching the side, her feet are 64cm from the edge. The tee-pee is a right circular cone with a diameter of 352cm, what is it's height? Any help would be appreciated!
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Question 326359: Minnie is holding a yardstick perpendicular to the ground. The shadow of the yardstick is 27 inches long. Minnie�s shadow is 4 feet 6 inches long. How tall is Minnie?
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Question 326774: The NBA states that the circumference of a regulation basketball must be between 29.5 inches and 30 inches. What is the greatest possible difference, rounded to the nearest thousandth, between the diameters of two regulation basketballs?
A.1.571 inches
B.0.796 inches
C.0.785 inches
D.0.500 inches
E.0.159 inches

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Question 326768: A series of regular hexagons with each side having a length of 1 are put together to form a �hexagon train.� A 4-hexagon train perimeter is 18.What would be the perimeter of a 1000-hexagon train?
A.6000 units
B.6002 units
C.4000 units
D.3002 units
E.4002 units
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Question 326822: A circle of radius 10cm in inscribed in a square. What is the area of the square, not covered by the circle?
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Question 326997: The width of a rectangle is 9 inches less than its lenght. If the area of the rectangle is 322 square inches what is its width?
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Question 326957: The perimeter of a rectangle is 600. The length of the rectangle is 2 more than 3 times the width.
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Question 327240: A 5 in. by 7 in. photograph is surrounded by a frame of uniform width. The area of the frame equals the area of the photograph. Find the width of the frame.
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Question 327287: the width of a rectangular playground is 2x-5 feet, and the length is 3x+9 feet. Write a polynomial P(x) tgat represents the perimeter and then evalute this perimeter polynomial if x is 4 feet.
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Question 327424: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at the hieght of 12feet. Find the length of the ladder if the length is 8feet more than its distance from the wall.
I have gotten as far as this:
12^2 + b^2 = (b + 8)^2
144 + b^2 = b^2 16b + 64
16b = 144 - 64
16b = 80
then what do I do?
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