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Question 358854: a beach ball holds 800 cubic inches of air. another beach ball has a radius that is half that of the larger ball. how much air does the smaller ball hold?

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Question 358958: A rectangular pool is 4m wide and 8m long. It is surrounded by a concrete walkway of uniform width. The cost of the walkway is dependent upon its area.
Write a simplified expression representing the total area of the walkway in terms of its width.
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Question 358971: wheel is 34 feet in diameter. how far does the wheel travel if it turns exactly 200 complete revolutions in one direction. what formula do I use.
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Question 358980: the perimeter of an isoscele triangle is 32 the lengths of the two sids are 9 in. less than 2 times the length of the base find the lengths of three sides
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Question 358992: 1.) A garden plot is to contain 240 sq.ft. If its length is to be three times its width, what should its dimensions be?
2.) The vertical end of trough,which is in the form of a trapezoid, has the following dimensions: width at the top is 1.65m, width at the bottom is 1.15m, and depth is 1.35m. Find the area of this section of the trough.
3.) A metal washer 1 1/2 inches in diameter is pierced by a 3/4-inch hole. What is the area of the cross section of the washer?
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Question 359010: Please help me solve this equation: x^4+x-3= 0 Find the approximate solutions to the equation.
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Question 359012: A wire of length 16 inches is to be cut into two pieces; then each piece will be bent to form a square. Find the length of the two pieces assuming that the sum of the areas of the two squares is 10 square inches.
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Question 130109: He decided that he wants to get the largest garden from 200 feet of fencing. What are the dimensions of his garden? What if he bought n feet of wire?
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Question 358738: How do you find area of a square room, if the perimeter of the room is 76 feet?
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Question 359503: Length of a rectangle floor is 1m. less than twice its witdth. If a diagonal of the rectangle is 17 meters, find the length and width of the floor. Thank you for your help.
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Question 359491: one side of a rectangle is three feet more than half as long as the other side and the perimeter is 21 feet what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 359530: The Length of a rectangle is twice its width. A second rectangle which is 8cm larger and 3 cm narrower than the first rectangle, has a perimeter of 154 cm. Make a sketch (you don't have to ) of the rectangles expressing all dimensional terms of w. Then find the dimensions of each rectangle.
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Question 359517: The length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its width. If the length is increased by 5 inches, the rectangle would be 3 times as long as it is wide. Find the demensions of the rectangle.
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Question 359575: a rectangular garden has an 8ft walkway around it. How many more feet is the outer perimeter of the walkway than the perimeter of the garden ?

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Question 359674: a rectangular computer screen measures 17 inch diagonally. the widht is 15 inch. whats the height
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Question 359719: The area of a square is increased by 30%. If the new area is 32.5 meters find the perimeter of the orginal square.
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Question 359734: The length of a rectangle is 8 inches more than its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 24 inches. What are the width and length of the rectangle?
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Question 359812: the swimming pool is 12 feet by 20 feet there is a 3 foot wide cement sidewalk all around the pool. what is the outside perimeter of the sidewalk? I think it's 88 feet? I think I hit the delete button and didn't what to so can some one help out thanks
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Question 359799: the swimming pool is 12 feet by 20 feet there is a 3 foot wide cement sidewalk all around the pool. what is the outside perimeter of the sidewalk? I think it's 88 feet?
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Question 359821: a shipping clerk processes 8 orders every 22 minutes. how many minutes it takes to process 14
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Question 360035: 70 percent of students are male. there are 24 female in a class how many men are in a class
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Question 360061: a car avrages 28.7 miles per gallon. how many gallons will it use on a trip 501.5 mmiles. round to the nearest tenth
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Question 360061: a car avrages 28.7 miles per gallon. how many gallons will it use on a trip 501.5 mmiles. round to the nearest tenth
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Question 360258: Determine the contrapositive of the conditional statement: If the lengths of the sides of a rectangle are 6 inches and 4 inches, then the area is 24 square inches.
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Question 360297: A diagonal of a square parking lot is 70 meters. Find, to the nearest meter, the length of a side of the lot.
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Question 360347: A right triangle has an acute angle of 30◦ and a hypotenuse of 1 unit long. Find the lengths of the two other sides.
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Question 360503: The area of a rectangle is 20 sq ft.
a) Express the length of the rectangle as a function of its width.
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Question 360585: How do you solve:
What is the measure of an angle if it's supplement measures 66 degrees less than 4 times it's complement?
Thank you!
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Question 360600: how do you solve:
A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of 9 ft. Find the length of the ladder if the length is 3 ft more than its distance from the wall.
Thank you!
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Question 360780: A tent's entrance is in the shape of an isosceles triangle in which segment RT is congruent to segment RS. The length of segment TS is 1.2 times the length of a side. The perimeter of the entrance is 14 feet. Find each side length.
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Question 360823: the harris and keller families decide to go to the movies together. the harris family lives 3 km west and 2 km north of the movie theater. the keller family lives 4 km east 3 km south of the movie theater. how far apart do the families live?
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Question 361012: The lenth of a rug is 6ft more than its width. the area is 40sq ft. Find the dimensions of the rug.

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Question 361066: The length of a rectangle is 4 more than its width. The area is 60 sq. yards. Find the dimensions.
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Question 361068: The length of a rectangle is 2 less than 3 times the width. Find the dimensions if the area is 65 square meters
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Question 361309: I am trying to find the length and width of a book. The book is 5cm longer than it is wide and the width is 84cm^2.
I was thinking about using the A=BH, but I'm not sure if it's the correct method.
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Question 361500: A rectangle is six times as long as it is wide. If the area is 294 ft squared, what is length and width of the table?
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Question 361936: of what the answer to.
the sides of a triangle have these lengths :2x+3,4x+1x+7 the perimeter is 25in. find the length of each side using the formula p=a+b+c
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Question 362410: Three angles of isosceles triangle are 70◦, 70◦, and 40◦. The base of the triangle is a diameter of a circle. Find the measure of the minor arc of the circle that the two equal sides intercept

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Question 362669: A restaurant has a dining room that is 62 ft by 55 ft. What is the area of the dining room? What is the perimeter of the dining room?
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Question 362670: The shape formed by placing a semicircle of radius 3ft. on top of a rectangle of length 12ft. How much glass would be needed for this window? If the window is molding, how much would be needed?
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Question 362754: how many centimeters are in 35 inches?
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Question 362795: The sum of three numbers is 94. whats the ansa!!
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