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Question 372632: What is the answer if the question is... Solve the following word problem by setting up and solving an algebraic equation. Find the measures of the three angles of a triangle if the largest is 2(degrees) less than three times the smallest, and the other angle is 12(degrees) larger than the smallest.
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Question 372651: In a triangle, the measure of the second angle is 40^0 less than the measure the first angle. The measure of the third angle is twice the first. What are the measures of each of the angles in the triangle?
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Question 372720: the diagram shows a rectangular room measuring 12 feet by 20 feet. the square in the center represents a rug measuring 8 feet on each side. how much area in the room does the rug not cover ?
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Question 372777: Pet is tied to the corner of a square shed, 6 m on each side. The rope is 8 m long. The area outside the shed over which the pet can wander is N pi square meters. Find the whole number N.
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Question 372783: The perimeter of a rectangle is 74. The length is 5 more than the width. Find the width.
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Question 372791: Madison Duke is wallpapering a laundry room 8ft by 8ft by 8ft high. How many square feet of paper will she need if there are 63ft^2 of openings in the room?
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Question 373087: The size of the screen of a television set is usually given in terms of its diagonal . Find the length of the diagonal of the screen 15 cm wide and 20 cm long.
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Question 373187: The area of a square is 200 ft. find the length of a side of the square. then find the pereimeter.
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Question 373279: Is it possible for a triangle to have sides that measure 10cm, 5cm and 4cm??
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Question 373080: A square photo graph of unknown dimensions (X by X) is to be place on a rectangular background that is 6 inches longer than the photo and 3 inches wider than the photo.
You must first determine how to now represent the length and width of the rectangular background.
If the area of the rectangular background is to be 340 sq. inches write an equation using A = l x w and solve the equation and tell the dimensions (X by X) of the original photograph.

accurately determine an equation using A = l x w and solve the equation then, tell the dimensions (X by X) of the original photograph
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Question 373393: Need help please
The perimeter of a rectangular photograph is 22 inches. The lenth of the photograph is 1 inch more than the width. What are the dimensions of the photograph?
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Question 373559: The length of a rectangular shaped box is 12 cm more than the height, and the width is 3 cm less than the height. The volume is 324 cm^3. Find the length, width, and height.
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Question 373463: Please help I have tired several times with this problem. I know the angles (back of the book) but I can't understand how got their answers.
Here is the question: The second angle in a triangle is five times as large as the first. The third angle is two-thirds as large as the first. What are the angle measures?

x+5x+x
7x=180
=wrong
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Question 373689: A man with a boat is located at point on the shore of a circular lake of radius 6 miles. He wants to reach the point on the shore diametrically opposed to as quickly as possible. He plans to paddle his boat at an angle () to to some point on the shore, then walk along the shore to his . If he can paddle 3 miles per hour and walk at 2.7 miles per hour, what is the shortest possible time it will take him to reach ?
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Question 373472: I have a "lake" which is really an irregular blob kind of shape. There are two points on either side of the "lake", A, and B. I need to know how to find the width of the "lake" without using a boat or getting my feet wet. Thanks (:
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Question 373688: A Norman window has the shape of a semicircle atop a rectangle so that the diameter of the semicircle is equal to the width of the rectangle. The goal is to find the area of the largest possible Norman window with a perimeter of 35 feet?
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Question 374024: Pine bark mulch 0.5ft deep is spread in each of the flower beds shown. Mulch is sold by the cubic foot. to the nearest cubic foot how much mulch will be need to be purchased. There are four flower beds. Two measuing 2' x 25' one measuring 4' x 25' and a circle one showing 15 ' diameter. Also if one cubic foot costs $0.2, how much money do you need to sepnd for the mulch you need.
Could you show step by step problems solving. I sent this in already, but nobody has returned the answer back. Thank you for your help.
Janet
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Question 373686: A farmer wishes to fence off three identical adjoining rectangular pens, each with 1000 feet of area,What are and so that the least amount of fence is required?
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Question 374011: The area of the rectangle is 84 square inches. Find its length with width
(x+3)bottom of the rectangle (x-2) side of the rectangle
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Question 374445: Two cars are racing around a circular track. The red car is traveling in a lane that is 82 ft. from the center. The blue car is in a lane that is 90 ft. from the center. If both cars are traveling at 120 mph, how much later, in seconds, will the blue car finish if they race one lap around the track. (round to the nearest 0.1 sec)(HINT: 60 mph= 88fps)
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Question 374746: I am haveing problems solving this problem I have tried numerous times but i just do not understand it.
A rectangle is 5 times as long as it is wide. If the area is 125 square feet, find its perimiter.
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Question 374812: One side of a triangular banner is 1.5 times longer than the second side and 2cm shorter that the third side. The perimeter of the triangle is 98 cm. How long is the shortest side?
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Question 374926: Diameter of a circle. If the diameter of a circle is
1.3x10-12power meters, then what is its radius?
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Question 374936: the area of a trapizoid is 475 square inches and the bases are 21 inches and 29 inches find the altitude
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Question 375102: A 16 foot ladder reaches a window 14 feet abouve the ground. How far from the wall is the base of the ladder. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Question 375089: How many cubic feet of warehouse space are needed fore 450 boxes 16inch x 8inchx 10inch.
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Question 375179: In a tourist bus near the base of Eiffel Tower at Paris, a passenger estimates the angles of elevation to the top of the tower be 60 degrees. If the height of the Eiffel Tower is about 984 ft., what is the distance from the bus to the base of the tower?
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Question 375123: What is the length of a rectangular lot that has a perimeter of 650 m and a width of 125 m?
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Question 375196: Each right triangle is 9 inches high and 2 feet long. In square feet, what is the total area?
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Question 375211: The radius of the broadcast area is 10,000 feet. Find the area of this circle to the nearest square foot. Use 3.14 for π (Pi).
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Question 375213: These are the data: 6,6,6,5,5,6,5,6,5. Find the mean, median, mode, and range of the data. If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 375260: a rectangle perimeter is 78 inches
the length is 6 more than twice its width.
what is the length and width?
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Question 375505: if a circle is 8 ft in diameter what will be the width and height of that circle?
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Question 375655: The length of a rectangle is 15 cm more than its width. A second rectangle whose perimeter is 72 cm is 5 cm wider but 2 cm shorter than the first rectangle. What are the dimensions of each rectangle?
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Question 375801: find the length of the diagonal
a. a square in terms of its edge
b. a rectangle in terms of its base b and its altitude h
c. find the area of an equilateral triangle of side a
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Question 375849: If the area of a rectangle is 128cm, what is the parameter if the length is twice the width?
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Question 376029: what is the weight of a block of ice 24in by 24in by 24in, if ice weighs 92 percent as much as water, and water weighs 62.5pounds per cubic feet?
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Question 376028: what is the weight of a block of ice 24in by 24in by 24in, if ice weighs 92 percent as much as water, and water weighs 62.5pounds per cubic feet?kindly show the solutions please.......thank you.
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Question 376089: Please help me answer:
You have 120 feet of fencing to make a pen for your dog. You want the pen to be 5 times longer than it is wide, and you want to use all of the 120 feet of fencing.
A) Let w represent the width of the pen. Write and simplify and equation to represent the situation.
B) Solve the equation in part (a) to find the dimensions of the pen.
C) What is the area of the pen?
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Question 376160: I cannot see the topics, sorry.
In my problem you have to use A=pi r^2.
Find the area of a circle if its diameter is 2 sqrt (84) centimeters. (two square roots of 84)
I have tried taking half of this and multiplying 2 of them together. I have tried multiplying the 2 times itself, and trying to then find the square root of it. I have the answer to the one before it, and I have tried everything I can to come out to the right answer. No matter how I do it, I cannot get it right.
I would like to know how to figure it out, if you would explain to me how to figure it out, I can find the answer. I just do not know how to even attempt to do it.

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Question 376179: Find the distance between (8, 2) and (-1, 4). Round to two decimal places.
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Question 376178: Draw the following triangle: A (-3, 2), B (9, 2), and C (3, -6) and use it to answer the following question.
perimeter =
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Question 376199: a circle has a circumference of 380 centimeters. what is its diameter?
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