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Question 327606: a wire of length 200 cm is cut into two parts and each part of wire is bent to form a square.If area of large square is 9 times the area of small square find perimeter of large square
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Question 327684: " A Norman window is a rectangle with a semicircle on top. Big Sky window is designing a Norman window that will require 24 feet of trim. What dimensions will allow the maximum amount of light to enter the house?"
I'm really lost on this one. Thank you for your time.
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Question 328007: An isosceles triangle two sides of length 28 cm and a base of 35 cm . the base of a similar triangle is 15 cm. find the perimeter of the smaller triangle ?
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Question 328037: The Width of a rectangular box is twice the height and the length is 4 inches more than the height. if the volume is 48 cubic inches, find the dimensions of the box
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Question 328000: Some pleated draperies must be twice as wide as the window they cover. How many square yards of material are needed to cover this kind of window 2 ft. wide and 3 ft. long?
answer in square yards
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Question 328087: An ellipse with center at the origin and the horizontal major axis is to fit snugly insidde a rectangle that has its longer sides horzontal. The area of the rectangle is 12 square units, and the perimeter is 14 units find an equation for the ellipse.
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Question 328113: A small rectangular playground that is 10ft by 14ft is going to have a grass border of a uniform width on all sides. If the area of the grass border is 145 sqare feet, how wide is the border?
I have tried to think of the correct formula but have come up blank! please can someone help me with this one!
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Question 328202: Jan is flying on a triangular course at 320 mi/h. She flies due east for two hours and then turns right through a 65 degree angle. How long after turning will she be exactly southeast of where she started?

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Question 328198: the perimeter of a rectangle is 146m the length is 4m more than 2 times the width. find the dimensions
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Question 328364: A square is inscribed in a circle of radius 12mm. What�s the area of the square?
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Question 328358: Air Travel. A turbo-jet flies 50 mph faster than a superprop plane. If a turbo-jet goes 2000 mi in 3 hr less time than it takes the super-prop to go 2800 mi, find the speed of each plane.
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Question 328356: Box Construction. An open box is to be made from a 10-ft by 20-ft rectangular piece of cardboard by cutting a square from each corner. The area of the bottom of the box is to be 96ft^2. What is the length of the sides of the squares that are cut from the corners?
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Question 328554: A circle is inscribed in a square. its diameter is congruent to?
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Question 328645: area of square field is 6400,how much long wire is required for boundry?
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Question 328653: Three times the width of a certain rectangle exceeds twice its length by three inches, and four times its length is twelve more than its perimeter. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 328668: The altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle divides the hypotenuse into two
segments. The length of one segment exceeds the length of the other segment by 15. If the length of the altitude is 10, find the area of the largest triangle.
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Question 328750: A square is inscribed in circle of radius 12mm. What�s the area of the square?
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Question 328794: A line intersects a cube at two points, A and B. If each edge of the cube is 4 cm, what is the greatest possible distance between A and B?
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Question 328783: describe the locus of all points in a plane that are less than 3inches from a point A
options are
1. circle A with radius 3
2. interior of cirle A with radius 3 inches
3. line segment 3inches long
4. line segment less than 3 inches long
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Question 328949: Hello,
I'm having a hard time figuring this out.
The side of an equilateral triangle is 4 inches shorter than the side of a square. The perimeter of the square is 38 inches more than the perimeter of the triangle. Find the length of the side of the square.
Thank you!
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Question 328951: Kim and Dale are riding bicyles in the same direction. Kim rides at a speed of 3 miles per hour and Dale rides at a speed of 9 miles per hour. If they started at the same place and at the same time, then after 5 hours, what is the distance between them?
Thanks!
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Question 328952: Suppose the sales of a particular brand of appliance satisfy the relationship
s(x)=190x+1600, where s(x) represents the number of sales in year x. with x=0 corresponding to 1982. Find the number of sales in 1992.
Thank you!
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Question 329049: Two ships leave one port, one sailing east and the other south. Some time later, they are 17 mies apart, with the eastbound ship 7 miles farther from the port than the southbound ship. How far is each from port?
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Question 329069: A triangle has two angles with a measure of 60�and one side with a length of 12. What is the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 329085: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. the area is 450yd^2. Find the length and the width.
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Question 329107: Which is a better deal: A grapefruit that is 5 cm in radius that costs 22 cents or a grapefruit that is 6 cm that costs 31 cents? Compute the cost per cubic cm for each grapefruit to answer this question.
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Question 329184: A building casts a shadow 31 m long. At the same time, the shadow cast by a 37-cm tall pole is 58 cm long. Find the height of the building.

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Question 329109: Three security cameras were mounted at the corners of a triangular parking lot. Camera 1 was 158 ft from camera 2, which was 121 ft from Camera 3. Cameras 1 and 3 were 140 ft apart. Which camera had to cover the greatest angle?
a. camera 2 b. camera 1 c. cannot tell d. camera 3
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Question 329145: Radius of a sphere. The radius of a sphere is given by the formula r=(0.75V/pie symbol)^1/3 where V is its volume. Find the radius of a spherical tank that has a volume of 32piesymbol/3 cubic meters.
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Question 329108: Suppose the sides of a cube are each increased by 20%.
What is the percentage increase in the surfaace area of the solid?
What is the percentage increase in the volume of the solid?
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Question 329318: length of a rectangle is 3cm longer than its width. if the perimetre of the rectangle is 26cm, what is the length?
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Question 329395: The side of a large tent is in the shape of an isosceled triangle whose area is 54ft^2 and whose base is 6 ft shorter than twice its height. Find the height and the base of the side of the tent.
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Question 329370: Question 20. Cost of painting 4 walls of a room 90 meters x 40 meters at Rs. 10 per sq.m is Rs.13,000. Find the height of the room

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Question 329351: Golden painting. An artist wants her painting to be in the shape of a golden rectangle. If the length of the painting is 36 inches, then what should be the width?
Formula: L/W = W/L-W Formula is in fractions.

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Question 329325: A leather coin purse has the shape of a triangle. Two sides are equal in length and the third side is 3 centimeters shorter than one and one-half times the length of the equal sides. The perimeter is 28.5 centimeters. Find the lengths of the sides.
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Question 329575: what is 4x+3x=0

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Question 329568: A rectangular field has a perimeter of 220 meters and an area of 2,856 square meters. What are its dimensions?

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Question 329630: Each the interior angle of a regular polygon exceeds the exterior angle by 160 degree .find the number of sides of the polygon
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Question 329653: Two rectangles have the same area of 480 cm^2.the diffrence between their lengths is 10cm and the diffrence between their widths is 4cm . calculate the dimension of the rectangles
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Question 329724: A rectangular building contains 3600 square ft. How many feet are in the perimeter of the lot?
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Question 329678: The volume of two similar kettles are 2160 cm^3 and 640 cm^3.what is the ratio of their bases?.if the smalles kettle has a height of 16 cm, what is the height of the larger kettle?
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Question 329818: which of the following always has a line of symmetry
a. parallelogram
b. rhombus
c. triangle
d. trapezoid
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Question 330247: Hi,
I'm having problems with this one:
(7/3) exponent of -3
Thanks!
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