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Question 353118: A farmer has 120 feet of fencing to be used in the contruction of two identical rectangular pens sharing a common side. Find the dimensions of the pens that will make the total enclosed area maximum.
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Question 353137: can i draw some shapes and you can give me the perimeter

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Question 353187: A rancher uses 834 meters of fencing to enclose a rectangular region and also to subdivide the region into two smaller rectangular regions by placing a fence parallel to one of the sides. Find the dimension that produce the greastest enclosed area.
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Question 353352: A garden measuring 12 meters by 16 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total area to 285 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway?
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Question 353370: Ok here's my question..... The length of a rectangle is 3yards more than twice it's width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 36 yards. What are the width and length of the rectangle? It seemed so easy in class but now I'm having troubles how can I solve problems like these in the future? Please Excuse the E-mail address =)
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Question 353355: You have a 1200 foot roll of fencing and a large field. You want to make two paddocks by splitting a rectangular enclosure in half. What are the dimensions of the largest such enclosure?
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Question 353353: You have a 500-foot roll of fencing and a large field. You want to construct a rectangular playground area. What are the dimensions of the largest such yard? What is the largest area?
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Question 353430: A 30 ft by 40 ft rectangle has two squares of side x removed from it. The remaining area is 1000 square feet. Find x
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Question 353461: What is 5 feet wide by 63 feet long by 3 inches deep in liquid volume. We are planning to lay a sidewalk and are having a little difficulty trying to sum up how much cement to buy. Thank you for your time. Raquel
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Question 353422: three circles, each with a radius of 6 inches, are externally tangent to each other. What is the area if the region which is the exterior of all three circles but which is bounded by the three circles?
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Question 353505: please help me solve this word problem which has to do with using formulas in geometry. find the length of the sides of a square whose area and perimeter are the same nonzero number
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Question 353509: A rectangular room is 1.4 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 33 meters. Find the dimension of the room
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Question 353510: Phyllis invested 33000 dollars, a portion earning a simple interest rate of 5 percent per year and the rest earning a rate of 7 percent per year. After one year the total interest earned on these investments was 2090 dollars. How much money did she invest at each rate?

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Question 353562: A rectangular pool of 20 m wide and 60 m long is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. If the total area of the walkway is 516 square meters , how wide, in meters, is the walkway?
a. 43 m b. 3 m c. 3 m d. 3.5 m

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Question 353508: A rectangular room is times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is meters. Find the dimension of the room
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Question 353755: If the sum of the areas of two congruent squares is 50, what is the length of a side of each square?

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Question 353810: If the altitude and the base of a triangle are increased by 2 cm the area would increase by 19 cm2 . If the altitude is increased by 3 cm and the base is decreased by 4 cm the area will decrease by 5cm2 .Find the base and the altitude of the triangle.
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Question 353834: For the incline shown below, how many ft in the vertical direction correspond to 4ft in the horizontal direction? ( h=12 v=3)
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Question 353964: A pole's shadow measures 2 1/2 feet when the shadow of a yardstick is right next to the ople measures 16 inches. How tall is the pole?
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Question 354100: a ball is placed in a cylindrical can, being tangent to the sides and the bases. the volume of the can is 2008 cm�. find the surface area of the ball.
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Question 354138: Area of circle inscribed in a square is 308 cm2. The length of the diagonal of the square is?
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Question 354255: the length of a rectangle is fixed at 16cm. What widths will make the perimeter greater han 76cm?
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Question 354358: A truck is traveling on a road and another truck is traveling on an overpass above it. Both the trucks are traveling in opposite directions. Describe the type of lines formed by the paths of the trucks. Explain your reasoning.
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Question 354359: 2(x+5)=4(x+3)-11

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Question 354404: A triangle has a height of 6cm and a base of 8 cm. If the height and the base are both decreased by the same amount, the area of the new triangle is 20 cm squared. what is the base and height of the new triangle?
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Question 354518: the perimeter of a rectangle in 30 cm and its area is 50 cm squared. find in centre meters the longest side.
thankyou
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Question 354553: The lenght of a rectangle is five more than twice it's width. The area of a rectangle is 52 square meters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 354583: what is the base that has an area of 55 square meters and an altitude of 10 meters
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Question 354595: A rancher needs two adjacent corrals, one for cattle and one for sheep. If a river forms one side of the corrals and 240 yd of fencing is available, what is the largest total area that can be enclosed?
Perimeter = y + 3x
A = x * y
A = x(-3x+240)
A = -3x^2+240x
=-3(x^2-80x)
=-3(x^2-80x-40^2)+4800
=-3(x-40)^2+4800
Maximum total area is 4800 yards
Did I solve it correctly?
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Question 354679: The sum of the lengths of one side of a right triangle and teh hypotenuse is 32 centimeters. The other leg is 1 centimeter shorter than the hypotenuse. Find the length of each side of the triangle. Thank you.
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Question 354722: in a science course, you must average 89 for an A. Your first three tests were 75,95,and 9.
if you have only one test remaining, what score do you need for an A?
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Question 354453: The area of a rectangle is 300 m^2. Both the length and width of the rectangle are increased by 25%. what is the area of the new rectangle?
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Question 355095: What is the measure of an angle if the measure of its supplement is 39 degrees more than twice the measure of its compliment? (Show your solution)
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Question 355097: What is the measure of an angle if the measure of its compliment is 10 degrees more than twice its measure? (Show your solution)
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Question 355132: can a segment have more than one bisector?Explain.
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Question 355139: The floor area of a rectangular classroom measures 60 meter squared. The floor is to be covered with square tiles measuring 30 cm by 30 cm. How many tiles will it take to cover the floor? Assume that only the whole tiles are used. Give a short, written description of how you solved the problem
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Question 355144: If the measure of an angle is twice the measure of its complement, what is the measure of an angle?
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Question 355063: The area of a rectangular picture is 343.190 square inches. The inside frame is 38.405 by 49.090 inches.How wide is the frame ( same width on all sides)>
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Question 355176: The sum of an angle and twice its complement is 148 degrees. find the measure of the angle and its complement.
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