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Question 382486: tim and brad are building a racecar.tim can build the car in 2 months less time than brad.together they can do the job in 7 months.how long will it take each of them if they work alone? give your answer to the nearest tenth...I would just like help setting this problem up to solve please.
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Question 382506: crown point is due south of merrilville,which is due west of winfield.of winfield is 13 miles from crown point and merrillville is 2 miles farther from winfield than twice its distance from crown point,how far is it from crown point to merrillville? I need help setting up this problem to solve and solving it please.
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Question 382822: Two angles are complementary. The measure of one is 9 more than twice the other. find the measure of each angle.

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Question 382804: find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if one leg is 12 inches and the other leg is 5 inches less then the hypotenus
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Question 382803: find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if one leg is 12 inches and the other leg is 5 inches less then the hypotenus
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Question 382954: A right cylindrical can is to hold 1 L. of water. What should be the height of the can if the radius is 12 cm? Use 3.14159.
The Height should be approximatelym _______ cm. (nearest hundredth)
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Question 382955: what is the volume of the biggest possible sphere that can be made out of a wooden cube whose side is 20cm?
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Question 383132: The volume of a rectangular box is limited to 1100 cu. in. If the height is 8 inches and the width is 10 inches how long can the box be? (
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Question 383211: Find the dimensions of a right triangle where the second leg is 1 unit less than
double the first leg and the hypotenuse is 1 unit more than double the length of
the first leg.

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Question 383341: The perimeter of a triangle is consecutive integers. If the perimeter is 51, find the dimension of the triangle.
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Question 383562: explain how you can determine the ratio of the perimeter of a square to the length of one side of the square even if you do not know the measures?
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Question 383693: A rectangle 15 ft long must have an area of at least 180 square feet. how wide must the garden be.?
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Question 383790: M room is 6 meters wide and 8 meters long. How much carpet do i need?

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Question 383747: The blueprints for a patio are shown at the bottom. The patio is a trapezoid. If the cost of the patio is $4.50 per square foot, what will be the total cost of the patio?
base1=18ft
height =15ft
base 2 =24ft
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Question 383807: which of the following expressions represents the measure of a side of an equilateral triangle is the perimeter is 9x - 12
a) 3x - 12
b) 3x - 6
c) 3x - 4
d) 3x - 3
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Question 383998: what is the distance between opposite corners of a 3 by 5 inch photograph

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Question 384045: What is the measure of an angle whose supplement is 3 times its complement
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Question 384082: What is the area of the circle if XY= 10 Ft?
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Question 384116: 1) The length of a rectangular garden is 2 yd greater than the width. The area is 80 yd2. Find the length and width.
I also have a next problem that an a little lost on:
2) Given the quadratic equation y=2x^2+4x-1 find the coordinates of the vertex.
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Question 384156: juanita and lauren are painting a circular mural on one wall of the community center the area of the mural is 66 square meters what is the radius of the mural
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Question 384389: Two sides of a triangle are equal in length. The length of the third side is three meters less than the sum of the lengths of the two other sides. Find the length of the longest side of the triangle if the perimeter is 29 meters.
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Question 384540: In triangle ABC, angle B is four times angle A, and angle C is 1 degree less than 5 times Angle A.
Find the size of the angles.
I really need help with this one.
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Question 384408: toy rubber balls are packaged in a circular cylinder that holds 3 balls. the diameter of each ball is 5.9 cm. what is the volume of the empty space left in the cylinder?
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Question 384625: A tower restaurant in S ydney, Australia is 300 meters above sea level and provides a 360 degrees panoramic view of the city as it rotates every 70 minutes. A tower restaurant in San Antonio, Texas is 750 feet tall. It evolves at a rate of one revolution per hour. In a day, how many more revolutions does the resturant in San Antonia make than the one in Sydney?
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Question 384615: An 18-inch by 20-inch sheet of cardboard is cut and folded to make a box for the GreatPeacan Company. write an polynomial function to model the volume of the box(v=lwh)
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Question 385005: Im stuck on this one :/
A rectangle is 5 feet longer than it is wide. If its perimeter is 22 feet, what is the dimension of the rectangle?
X= width
Length= X+5
Perimmeter formula is P=2L+2W

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Question 385216: the perimeter of a rectangle is 180m the length is 5m more than double the width use an equation
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Question 385218: If there are two nonoverlapping, nonintersecting circles in a plane, four lines can be tangent to both circles at the same time. How could the circles be arranged so that there are 3 or 2 or 1 or 0 lines tangent to both at the same time? (Explain an answer for each possibility. They are all possible)
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Question 385223: In 2002, Home Depos's 2002 sles amountes to 58,200,000,000. In 2006, its sales were 90800000000. Write home dopost's 2002 and 2006 sales in scientific notation. find the increase in sales from 2002 to 2006. find what pecent that increase is of the 2002 sales. What was the percent growht in home dopot sales form 2002 to 2206.
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Question 385280: a 3 ft wide sidewalk surrounds a rectangular swimming pool. the perimeter of the pool is 84 ft. the length of the larger rectangle is twice the width of the swimming pool. find the dimensions of the swimming pool
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Question 385281: the area of a rectangle is 102 square inches. the length of the rectangle is 5 inches greater than twice the width. find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 385509: Ace rents a compact car at a daily rate of 40.95 plus.47 per mile. Deuce rents a compact car for 43.95 plus.42 per mile. For what mileage is the cost the same?
thanks
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Question 385504: One angle of a triangle is twice as large as a second angle. The third angle is 28 degrees larger than the second angle. How large is each angle
thanks
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Question 385839: A triangle plot of land has a perimeter of 1170 metre.
The first side is 240 metres less than twice the second side.
the third side is half the combined length of the first and second side
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Question 386198: what is the area of a rectangle that is 7mi wide, and 4mi tall?
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Question 386338: a windoow is shaped like a rectangle whose perimeter is 80 in. the length is 3 times as long as the width. find the length and the width
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Question 386493: Pole A, 9.6 meters high, casts a shadow of twenty meters. Pole B casts a shadow of 5 meters. What is the height of Pole B?
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Question 386698: the flagpole is 3/4 as tall as the school. Their difference in height is 4.5 meters. What is the height of both?

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Question 386701: An apple has 29 more calories than a peach , and 13 fewer calories than a banana. If three apples have 43 fewer calories than 2 bananas and 2 peaches , how many calories does each apple have?
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Question 386694: HOW MANY GALLONS OF MILK WILL 16 BABIES DRINK IN 20 DAYS?
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Question 386760: The length of a rectangle is 3 yd longer than its width.
If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34 yd, find its area
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Question 386954: 1) A rectangular storage unit has dimensions of : 1m by 2m by 3m. If each linear dimension is increased by the same amount. a) What increase would result in a new storage unit with a volume of 10 times the orginal? b) How many possible solutions are there to this problem? c) Sketch the graph of the information presented in this problem. Show how the zeros of the function relate to the answer.
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Question 386973: the perimeter of a rectangular cow pasture is 12,000 yards. the length is 50 yards less than 4 times the width. what are the dimensions of the pastures?
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