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Question 366428: A rectangular garden is surrounded by a walk of uniform width. The area of the garden is 180 square yards. If the dimentions of the garden plus the walk are 16 yards by 25 yards, find the width of the walk.
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Question 366499: The length of a rectangle is fixed at 25 cm. What widths will make the perimeter greater than 76 cm?
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Question 366702: Draw triangle ABC. Label angle A 30 degrees, angle B 70 degrees and angle C 80 degrees. List the sides in order from shortest to longest.
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Question 366843: Hi
I sent this in yesterday and I haven't got a solution as yet. This is a parallelogram problem asking to solve the perimeter. Its a square box on a slant(a Parallelogram. Inside the parallelogram is a angle or triangle to the left side of the parallelogram. Half way up the triangle to the side of the triangle is a measurement of 5cm. The base of the parallelogram has two measurements. 2 cm to the left side with arrows pointing to the end of the parallelogram and the other half of the base being 4cm to the other side of the parallelogram.So the two bases are 2 cm and 4 cm and the middle number is 5 cm. Do you do the problem like this.
A=1/2bh
1/2. 2cm.5cm=10cm and than divide that by 1/2= 5
1/2.4cm.5cm-20cm and than divide that by 1/2= 10
than add 5 and 10 to equal 15 for the perimeter??????
Hope you can understand what I'm saying. Help!!!!
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Question 366897: A man left a will stating that his pregnant wife had a daughter, he wants his daughter to have twicw as much as his wife. if his pregnant wife has a son, he wants his son to have half as much as his wife. After his death, his wife gave birth to twins; a boy and a girl. According to his will, what fraction of esate does each person get? Find geometric way to explain your thinking.
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Question 367278: The perimeter of a square is 360 cm. What is the length of one side?

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Question 367291: A and B are complementary angles. If the measure of angle A is increased 9 degrees and the measure of angle B is decreased 15 degrees, then the measure of each of the two angles will be the same. What are the measures of angle A and B?
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Question 367384: 1) A square has side lengths 2 cm. What happens to its area when you triple the side lengths?
2) A cube has lengths 2 cm. What happens to its volume when you triple the side lengths?
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Question 366869: Two students are using a measuring tape to find the length of a room.The tape reads 13 ft 6.25 inches.However, the student at one end is holding the tape 9 in. higher than the student at the other end. What is the difference between their measurement and the true length?
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Question 367808: In a right triangle find the length of the side not given
b=2,c= sqrt29
please show work
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Question 368029: The Perimeter of a rectangle is 52 feet. The length and width are represented by two consecutive even integers. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 368083: actual cost of an item selling of x dollars,if 40%is disconnected from the marked price
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Question 368073: one leg of the right triangle is twice as long as the other .write the length of the hypotenuse as a function length of the shorter leg?
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Question 368069: F(X)=6/X+4
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Question 368224: the base of a triangle exceeds the height by 9 yards, if the area is 221 square yards, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle
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Question 368255: The base of the triangle is 9 feet longer then the height. The area of the triangle is 68 feet. How long is the base?
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Question 368255: The base of the triangle is 9 feet longer then the height. The area of the triangle is 68 feet. How long is the base?
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Question 368507: I do not understand a geometry question.
It says; The surface area of a cone is approximated by the polynomial
3.14r2+3.4rl, where r is the raduis and l is the slant height/ Find the approximate surface of this cone.
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Question 368749: The perimeter of a rectangle is 120 feet. Use an equation to find the length and width of the rectangle if the length is twice the width.
Use P = 2W + 2L.

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Question 368824: Please help.
A diameter of a circle is a segment that passes through the center of the circle and has endpoints on the circle. If you draw 10 diameters of a circle, how many sections are produced?
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Question 368966: At what rate is the surface area of a cube increasing if its edges are 2 inches and are increasing at a rate of 3 inches per minute?
A=6s^2
dA/dt=12s (ds/dt)
dA/dt=12(2)(3)
dA/dt=72 in/min
Is this correct?
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Question 369095: A 6 foot spruce tree is planted 15 feet from a lighted streetlight whose lamp is 18 feet abouve the ground. how many feet long is the shadow of the tree?
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Question 360836: nico drives from school to the store at 25 miles per hour. he drives back to school (along the same route) at 35 miles per hour, and then returns to the store (via the same route) traveling at 40 miles per hour. Find his averarge rate for the three trips. round your answer tot the nearest mile per hour.
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Question 369442: a picture is 30 cm long and 22 cm wide. it is placed in a uniform frame that us 3 cm wide. what is the outside perimeter of the frame?

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Question 369485: the perimeter of a standard sized rectangular rug is 44 feet. the width is 2 feet less than the length . find the dimension
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Question 369713: a coin is tossed four times. what is the probability of getting tails four times in a row.
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Question 369984: The length of a room exceeds the width by 5 feet, and the height is 3 feet less than the width. The area of the four walls exceeds the sum fo the areas of ceiling and floor by 240 square feet. Find the dimensions of the room.
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Question 369880: A tree casts a shadow 180 feet long. Find the height of the tree if the angle of elevation of the sun is 30�.
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Question 370283: the perimeter of a rectangle is 116m. the length is 7 m more than twice the width. find the dimensions
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Question 370483: A rectangular piece of cardboard is 13 inches long and 9 inches wide. From each corner a square piece is cut out, and then the flaps are turned up to form an open box. Determine the length of a side of the square pieces so that the volume of the box is as large as possible.
i got this:
V=(13-2h)(9-2h)(h)
but what do i do next?
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Question 371209: a triangular garden has an area or 45 square meters. its base is 3 meters longer than twice its height. how long is the base?�
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Question 371260: the primeter of a rectangle is 36 cm and its area is 80 sq.cm. find its duimensions

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Question 371303: A circular garden is bordered by a walkway. The radius of the garden is 6 feet, and the walkway is 2 1/2 feet wide. Rose wants to put a fence around the garden, between the garden and the walkway. How many feet of fencing will she need to buy?
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Question 371395: if a building is 72 in tall... what is the height of its shawdow???
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Question 371663: The ratio of a quarterback's completed passes to attempted passes is 5 to 8. If he attempted find how many passes he completed. Round to the nearest whole number if necessary.
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Question 371801: The length of a rectangle is 7 cm greater than its width, and a diagonal of the rectangle is 2 cm greater than its length. Find the width of the rectangle
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Question 371953: A diagonal walk through a small rectangular garden 9 meters by 12 meters can be built at $10 per linear meter. How much will the walk cost? ...
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Question 372144: American astronauts working on the space station toss a ball into the air. the height of the ball is represented by the quadratic y=-2.7x^2+13.5x+14, where x represents the number of seconds since the ball was thrown and y represents the height of the ball in feet.
a) to the nearest hundredth of a second, after how much time does the ball hit the ground?
b) to the nearest tenth of a foot, what is the greatest height the ball achieves?
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Question 372184: At the end of a year, a tree has split into two branches. At the end of each succeeding year, each branch has split into two more branches. How many branches are there at the end of nine years?
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Question 372410: if the area of a square is 81cm2 how long is each side

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Question 372455: A 5 inch by 8 inch rectangular picture has a frame of uniform width. if the area of the frame is 114 square inches, what is the width of the frame?
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Question 372490: Two sides of an equilateral triangle have lengths 3x+1 and -2x+26. Which of 21-x or 3x-4 could be the length of the third side
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Question 372437: The Stemsell River flows at a rate of 4Km/h. In order for a boat to travel 33.6 km upriver and then return in a total of 8 hr, how fast must the boat travel in still water?
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