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Question 342909: what shape am i? all my angles are obtuse and the sum of my angles are 720 degrees
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Question 342619: A can of paint will cover 70 square feet. How many cans of paint are needed to paint a wall 5 feet high and 98 feet long?

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Question 343236: A pharmacist found at the end of the day she had 4/3 as many prescriptions for antibiotics as tranquilizers. She had 28 prescriptions altogether. How many did she have for tranquilizers?
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Question 343320: A swimming pool is 16 feet wide and 40 feet long. If it is surrounded by square tiles, each of which is 1 foot by 1 foot, how many tiles are there surrounding the pool?
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Question 343343: Barbara had money in two accounts. She had $900 more in an account paying 8% annual interest than she had in an account paying 6% annual interest. If she earned $240 in interest for the year, how much did she have invested in each account?
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Question 343342: One side of a triangle is half the longest side. The third side is 10 meters less than the longest side. The peremiter is 53 feet. Find the shortest side.

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Question 343338: the second angle of a triangular kite is four times as large as the first. The third angle is 5 degrees more than the sum of the other two angles. Find the measure of the second angle.
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Question 343399: Find the measures of the angles of a triangle if the angles are represented by x, 4x, and 4x.

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Question 343458: an angle is equal to one half its supplement. find the supplement
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Question 343458: an angle is equal to one half its supplement. find the supplement
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Question 343487: The sides of a rectangle in the ratio 5:7 and the perimeter of the rectangle is 96cm. what is the area of the rectangle?
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Question 343469: the length of the rectangle is 5 times its width if the area of the rectangle is 245 centimeters square what is its perimeter?
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Question 343571: The length of a rectangle is 16 feet more than twice its width. If the perimeter is 104, find the length of the rectangle.
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Question 343557: A square has a perimeter of 784 feet. What is the length of a side of the square.
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Question 343898: If square with a diagonal of 4√2 is equal to in area to a circle, that is the radius of the circle?
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Question 343917: A rectangular field is to be made along a river. if one side is to have the river as a natural boundary, what are the dimensions of the largest rectangular field that can be enclosed by using 240 meters of fence for the other 3 sides?
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Question 344038: A rectangular garden is to be enclosed with 480 feet of fencing. If the length of the garden is to be 30 feet greater than the width, find the dimensions of the garden if all the fencing is used.
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Question 344179: what is the sum of the measures of a supplement and a complement of an angle with measure x
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Question 344134: the peremiter of a regular octagin is 124 inches.Find the lingth of each side.
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Question 344134: the peremiter of a regular octagin is 124 inches.Find the lingth of each side.
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Question 344248: Part 1) A=1/2bh solve for H
Part 2)If the area of the triangle is 48cm(squared) and its base measurs 12cm, what is the height of the triangle?
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Question 344413: A Norman window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. If the perimeter of the window is 10 meters, express the area A of the window as a function of the width x of the window.
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Question 344441: If x > 5, then x2 > 25.
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Question 344444: If aco
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Question 344343: The length of a rectangle is 5 cm greater than its width. The perimeter is 106 cm. Find the dimensions.
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Question 344411: An open rectangular box with volume 2m^3 has a square base. Express the surface area of the box as a function of the length of a side of the base.
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Question 344422: A rectangular piece tin 10 inches by 15 inches is to be made into a box by cutting out squares (each 2.5 inches on a side) from each corner. If the sides are then bent up to form the box, what will be the volume, in cubic inches, of this box?

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Question 344567: A steel plant has to fill an order from an automobile manufacturer for 100,000 steel ball bearings � inches in diameter. What is the total weight of the metal required to fill this order, if steel weighs 480 lb per cu. ft?
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Question 344676: If the area of triangle A, with sides of 6, 8, and 10, equals the area of rectangle B, with width of 4, what is the perimeter of the rectangle?

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Question 344780: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive odd integers. If the perimeter is 1 less than four times the shortest side, find the lengths of each side.
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Question 344781: Does the circle enclose a larger area than a square of the same length of perimeter when the perimeter is divided by four and the result is squared?
From Geoffrey
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Question 344818: suppose the measures of the interior angles of convex nonagon are nine consecutive whole numbers. Find the measure of the second to smallest angle.
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Question 344793: a wall has an area of 80 squared feet. what is the height of the wall?

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Question 345198: The dimensions of a rectangle are such that its length is 7 in more than its width. If the length were doubled and if the width were decreased by 3 in, the area would be increased by 198 in^2 what are the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 345386: Farmer Tariq's rectangular field is 40 meters long. If the area of the field is 1,000 square meters, how wide, in meters, is the field?
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Question 345480: The hands of a clock form the same angle at various times of the day . for example , the angle formed at 2:00 is congruent to the angle formed at 10:00. if a clock has a diameter of 1 foot , what is the distance along the edge of the clock from the minute hand the hour hand at 2:00 ?
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Question 345524: the area of a window is 143 square feet. the length is 2 feet more than the width. how wide is the window?
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Question 345601: the length of the rectangle is six times its width if the area is 600 inches squared find its perimeter?
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Question 345954: one leg of a right triangle has a length of 3m. the other sides have lengths that are consecutive integers. find the lengths.
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Question 346004: A conical container has a height of 9 cm and a diameter of 6 cm and is filled to the brim with lemonade. It is leading lemonade at a rate of 1 cubic centimer per minute. What is the height of the remaining lemonage after 1 hour.
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Question 346040: If the quotient of two number is positive then both numbers must be positive
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Question 345998: The length of a fenced rectangular garden is 6 feet longer than the width. If the length of the fence used to surround the garden is 80 feet, what are the dimensions on the garden?
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Question 346000: Suppose a wire is stretched tightly around Earth. (The radius of Earth is approximately 6400Km). Then suppose the wire is cut and its length is increased by 20 km. It is then placed back around the planet so that it is the same distance from Earth at every point. Could you walk under the wire?
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Question 346088: The volume of a rectangular prism is 2058 cm. The length of the prism is three times the width. The height is twice the width. Find the length of the prism.
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Question 346449: A rectangular fence is to be made by using all 64 feet of fencing. The length is 6 feet longer than the width of the fence.
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