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Question 346514: Find the area of a rectangle that has a base of (4a) cm and a height of (2a b) cm.
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Question 346515: Find the area of a rectangle that has a base of (4a) cm and a height of (2a b) cm.
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Question 346630: the measure of the angles of atriangle are in the ratio 2:3:4. find the measures of each of the exterior angles in the triangle
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Question 346535: how do i solve this question...how would I set it up? what formula would I use? im so confused. Here is the question. two neighbors, smith and wheeler, plan to erect flagpoles in their yards. smith wants a 10ft pole while wheeler wants a 15ft pole. to keep the poles straight while the concrete bases harden guy wires are to be tied from the tops of the flagpoles to a fence post on the property lines and to the bases of the flagpoles.
HOW HIGH SHOULD THE FENCE POST BE AND HOW FAR APART SHOULD THEY ERECT THE FLAGPOLES FOR THE SCHEME TO WORK?
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Question 346636: The lenght of a rectangle is 10 cm longer than its width. The peremeter of the rectangle is 68 cm. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 346638: The width of a rectangle is 9 cm shorter than its length. The peremeter of the rectangle is 40 cm. What are the longth and with of the rectangle?
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Question 346682: Choose the best answer to the following question. 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 346677: Angle A and angle B are supplementary angles. If the measure of angle B is 6 degrees greater twice the measure of angle A, find the measure of each angle.
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Question 346766: What is the longest diagonal that will go the inside of a box with the measures of: 4 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet? THANK YOU!
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Question 346967: the length of a rectangular room is 9 feet longer than twice the width. if the room's perimeter is 186ft what are the room's dimensons?
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Question 347069: A piece of twine 48 inches long is cut into two lengths. Each length is then used to form a square. The sum of the areas of the two squares is 74 square inches. Find the length of each side of the smaller square and the larger square.
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Question 346142: A portion of a wall is a right triangle with a height that is 3 feet more than its base. If the area of the triangle is 27 square feet, find the base
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Question 347333: B is the midpoint of line AC. AB = 8v, AC = 2v + 42. What is BC?
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Question 347410: If two sides of a square field were increased by five feet, the area of the field would increase by 245 ft2. Find the area of the original space.
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Question 347598: Suppose that the width of a cube is twice the width of a second cube.
How do the volumes of the cubes compare
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Question 347668: Suppose there are two cubes, with the first cube having a side of h, and the second cube having a side of 5h. What is the relation of the volume of the first cube to the volume of the second?
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Question 347616: A bicycle tire travels about 50.27 inches during one rotation of the wheel. What is the diameter of the tire?

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Question 347648: THE PERIMETER OF A CERTAIN SQUARE IS THE SAME AS THE PERIMETER OF A CERTAIN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE. AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE IS A TRIANGLE IN WHICH ALL THREE SIDES HAVE THE SAME LENGTH. EACH SIDE OF THE TRIANGLE IS 1 INCH LONGER THAN A SIDE OF THE SQUARE. HOW LONG IS A SIDE OF THE SQUARE? HOW LONG IS A SIDE OF THE TRIANGLE?
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Question 347666: Given a rectangular prism with dimensions w = 3, l = 4, and h = 6. If you created a second rectangular prism with the length doubled but the height halved (and the width stays the same), which would be the relation of the second volume to the first volume?
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Question 347646: THE MEASURE OF ONE ANGLE OF A TRIANGLE IS 10 DEGREES MORE THAN THE MEASURE OF THE SMALLEST ANGLE. THE MEASURE OF THE THIRD ANGLE IS 50 DEGREES MORE THAN THE MEASURE OF THE SMALLEST ANGLE. WHAT ARE THE MEASURES OF THE ANGLES OF THE TRIANGLE?
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Question 347643: A RECTANGULAR PARK WAS BUILT SO THAT ITS LENGTH IS 3 TIMES ITS WIDTH. THE PERIMETER OF THE PARK IS 24 YARDS. WHAT ARE TEH WIDTH AND LENGTH OF THE PARK?
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Question 347635: A farmer plans to enclose a rectangular region, using part of his barn for one side and fencing for the other three sides. If the side parallel to the barn is to be three times the length of an adjacent side, and the area of the region is to be , how many feet of fencing should be purchased?

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Question 347615: A dinner plate fits snugly in a square box with perimeter 48 inches . what is the circumference of the plate ?
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Question 347708: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 22 m long. The length of one leg is 10 m less than the other. Find the lengths of the legs.
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Question 347856: A circle is inscribed in a square, which is circumscribed by another circle. If the diagonal of square is 2x, find the ratio of the area of the large circle to the area of the small circle?
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Question 347999: Tom wants to build a fence around his rectangular swimming pool. The dimensions of the pool are 18 feet by 22feet. He wants the border around the pool to be of uniform width. If he has 60 yards of fencing, find the width of the border.
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Question 348041: the length of a rectangle is 7 inches less than 3 times its width. if the perimeter of the rectangle is 50 inches, what are its dimensions?
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Question 348036: What formula would i use for this problem? A rectangular picture frame of uniform width has outer dimensions of 12 by 18 inches. Describe the process to decide how wide (to the nearest tenthof an inch) must the frame be to display an area of 140 sqaure inches?
Thankyou
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Question 348109: Boxes are made by cutting 8 cm squares from the corners of sheets of cardboard and then folding. The sheets of cardboard are 6 cm longer than they are wide.
For the sheet of cardboard whose width is x cm, find expressions, in terms of xm for:
(i)(a) Length of the sheet
b) The length of the finished box
c) Width of the finished box
(ii)Show that the volume of the box is 8x^2 - 208x + 1280cm^3
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Question 348139: Two angles are compliments and one lacks 8 degrees of being twice the other. What are the angles?
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Question 348139: Two angles are compliments and one lacks 8 degrees of being twice the other. What are the angles?
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Question 348137: Alfonzo' pizzeria bakes olive pieces in the outer crust of its 20 inch (diameter) pizza . there is at least one olive piece per inch of crust . how many olive pieces will you get in one slice of pizza ? assume the pizza is cut into eight slices
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Question 348401: May is building a fence around the outer edge of a rectangular garden plot that is 25ft by 45 ft. She will set the posts 5 feet apart. How many will she need?
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Question 347530: the length of a rectangle is 7 inches longer than twice the width. What are the diemsions of the rec. if its perimeter is 74
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Question 348552: find the side length of a square with an area of 192 square metres
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Question 348189: Wendy, a landscaper, who just completed a rectangular flower garden measuring 25 feet by 15 feet, orders 3 cubic yards of pre-mixed cement, all of which is to be used to create a border of uniform width around the garden. If the border is to have a depth of 3 inches, how wide will the border be?
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Question 348776: I need length and width of triangle.
400=2l+40+2w
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Question 349058: what will happen to the volume of a cube if its side 12cm is tripled?
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Question 349178: The sum of the measure of the two angles is 180 degrees. If the difference between their angle measures 32 degrees, find the measure of each angle. Thank you
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Question 349189: A landscaping company is laying out a triangular flower bed. The height of the triangle is 12ft. What lengths of the base will make the area at least
168ft-sq.
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Question 349250: A large pipe is placed next to a wall and a 1 ft high block is placed 5 ft from the wall to keep the pipe in place as show in the figure. What is the radius of the pipe ?
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Question 349385: What will happen to the volume of a cube if its side 12cm is tripled?
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Question 349356: A square piece of cardboard is 12 inches on a side. A square piece x inches on a side is cut out from each corner. The flaps are then turned up to form an open box. Find polynomials that represent the volume and outside surface area of the box.

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Question 349565: A large wheel and smaller wheel interlocking .The smaller wheel radius 5.23 cm and large wheel radius 8.16 cm.The rotation of the smaller wheel causes the larger wheel to rotate. Through how many degrees will the larger wheel rotate if the smaller one rotates through 60.0 degrees ?

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