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Question 35450: I got the answer (I think) for this problem but how do I check it? I think the answer is angle A is 80 degrees and angle B is 66 degrees. Right or wrong?
Angles A and B are complimentary angles, and angle B is 14 degrees less than angle A. Find the measures of angle A and angle B

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Question 35553: If the exterior angles of a convex octagon are x+13, 2x-1, 2x+6, 2x+12, 2x-17, 3x-4, 3x-10, and 4x, calculate the smallest of the eight angles.
choices
A) 19 degrees
B) 21 degrees
C) 32 degrees
D) 37 degrees
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Question 35557: Question 1~ It is possible fot the interior ang;es of a regular polygon to measure 145 degrees.
Choices
A) True
B) False
Question 2~ Calculate the measure for each exterior angle of a regular nonagon.
Choices
A)20 degrees
B)40 degrees
C)140 degrees
D) 1260 degrees

Question 3~ Calculate the measure for each interior angle of a regular 15-gon.
Choices
A) 12 degrees
B) 24 degrees
C) 156 degrees
D) 2340 degrees
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Question 35556: In the Convex quadrilateral ABCD, if angle A is congruent to angle D, the measure of angle B equals 110 degrees, and measure of angle C equals 60 degrees, find measure of angle A?
Choices
A) 95 degrees
B) 170 degrees
C) 190 degrees
D) 360 degrees
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Question 35611: Question 1~ A quadrilateral with congurent diagonals.
Choices
A) A parallelogram
B) A rectangle
C) an isosceles trapezoid
D) no guaranteed classification
Question 2~ A parallelogram with at least one right angle.
Choices
A) A rectangle
B) A rhombus
C) A square
D) just a parallelogram
Question 3~ A quadrilateral with four congruent sides.
Choices
A) A square
B) A Rhombus
C) A rectangle
D) no guaranteed classification
Question 4~ A quadrilateral with four congruent angles.
Choices
A) A square
B) A parallelogram
C) A rectangle
D) No guaranteed classification
Question 5~ A quadrilateral with diagonals that bisect each other.
Choices
A) A square
B) A parallelogram
C) A rectangle
D) no guaranteed classification
Question 6~ A quadrilateral with exactly two consecutive right angles.
Choices
A) A square
B) A rectangle
C) A trapezoid
D) A parallelogram
Question 7~ A quadrilateral with two pairs of congruent sides.
Choices
A) A rectangle
B) A parallelogram
C) An isosceles trapezoid
D) no guaranteed classification
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Question 35809: Mark reads at an average rate of 30 pages per hour, while Mindy reads at an average rate of 40 pages per hour. If Mark starts reading a novel at 4:30PM, and Mindy begins reading the same novel at 5:20PM, at what time will they be reading the same page?

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Question 35226: Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to figure this out?
An airplane is flying 0.75 miles above the ground. If the pilot must begin a 4 degree descent to an airport runway, how far is the airplane from the beginning of the runway(in ground distance)to the nearest tenth of a mile?
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Question 35929: A rectangular parking lot is 50 ft longer than it is wide. Determine the dimensions of the parking lot if it measures 250 ft diagonally.
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Question 36113: describe how would you calculate the sales price of an item.use a specific example to demonstrate your method.
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Question 36123: explain how to find the probability of mutually esclusive an inclusive events. use examples
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Question 36122: explain how to find the probability of independent events.use examples.

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Question 36120: suppose you are as a sale person and wish to demonstrate to a customer all of the possible options you have available.tell how you would do it and use an example.
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Question 36266: What is the measure of each angle of a regular polygon with 6 sides?
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Question 36585: Which quadrant will x be greater than or equal to 0 and y be less than or equal to 0? Can the area be shifted to a different quadrant simply by using additional inequalities? why?

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Question 36716: Five years ago, Jason was three times as old as Freddy. When Freddy was four years old, Jason was four times Freddy's age. How old are Jason and Freddy now?
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Question 36742: When the melons were weighed in pairs each pair weighed more than 100 pounds.
smith's and jone's melons together weighed 110 pounds
jone's and Squash's melons together weighed 104 pounds
smith's and squash's melons together weighed 122 pounds
whose melon was the heaviest and how much did it weigh?
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Question 37118: Solve and show all work, please. Thanks!
A forester is 50 m from the base of a tree and measures the angle between the ground and the top of the tree (angel of elavation) to be 76 degrees. Find the height of the tree to the nearest meteer.
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Question 37867: Two angels are complementary. If the measure of one angle is x degrees, represent the measure of the other angle as an expression in x.
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Question 37887: A cassette tape costs 13.99 which includes a 6% tax. What is the pre-tax price for the tape? (round your answer to the nearest cent)
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Question 37886: A skateboard originally priced at $146 is on sale. The price is marked down by 25% the sale tax is 8%. What is the final cost for the sakteboard?
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Question 37885: a pile contains 1200 coins. Each day penny nichols takes 20% of the coins from the pile. Approximately how many coins remain in the pile after 7 days?

thank you sooo much!!
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Question 37957: the edge of each cube is 3 inches. if each cube weighs 2.5 ounces per cubic inch. how many pounds will 200 cubes weigh?
thank you id appreciate it alot!!
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Question 38213: Okay this is a function of a right triangle where side a is equal to 16 and its corresponding angle is 45 degrees side b and the hypoteneous are unknown. Is there a way to solve for the two missing sides?
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Question 38246: An angle measures 48 degrees.What is the complent
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Question 38359: A right triangle has a perimeter of 3 meters. It's hypotonuse is 130 cm. What are the lengths of the other sides?
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Question 38519: i need this answer right away thank you!
the perimeter of a rectangle is 56 inches. the length is 5 less than the width find the demensions.
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Question 38460: x= 2y-1 and 2x+y=81
solve using substitution
x=?
y=?
show work please thank you!!
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Question 38460: x= 2y-1 and 2x+y=81
solve using substitution
x=?
y=?
show work please thank you!!
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Question 38463: The perimeter of a rectangle is 56 in. the length is 5 less thean the width. Find the demensions.
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Question 38467: The perimeter of a triangle is 100 in. the base is 4 inches greater then the legs. What are the lengths?
Base=?
Leg=?
Leg?
show work thanks so much!!
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Question 38461: L= 1/2W 62= 2L + 2W

show work please thank you!!

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Question 38602: Two similar triangles have sides in the ratio of 4:5. What is the ratio of their perimeters?
A regular square pyramid has a base with edges 16 and height 15. What is the volume and surface area of the pyramid?
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Question 38601: Two spheres have a radii in the ratio of 3:4. What is the ratio of their areas?
Two similar pyramids have base edges in the ratio of 3:4. What is the ratio of their volumes?
Two similar cones have a surface areas in the ratio of 16 to 25. What is the ratio of their volumes?
The measure of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 2: 4: 14. What is the measure of the largest angle of the triangle?
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Question 38791: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 4 cm. longer than one leg and 18 cm. longer than teh other leg. Find te lenght of each side of the triangle.
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Question 38897: The height of a triangle is twice the base. The area is 9 square inches. find the area.
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Question 38952: Hi! I have trouble with this word problem. Can you help me?
A rectangle and square have the same width, but the rectangles length is 5m longer than the squares. Their area is 133m(squared). Find the dimensions.
I have tried
rectange=l+5
square= l
then I did l+l+5=133
-5=-5
2l=128
i divided by 2 and got
l=64m
I dont think that is right. Can you help me?
If you could help me that would be great, but if not I'll try to work it out differently.
Thanks,
Melissa
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Question 38962: The length of a picture is 4 feet less than twice its width. To frame it, 76 feet of framing are needed. Find the dimensions of the picture.
(This is not from a textbook) Thank you for your help.
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Question 38967: Hi! I nned help with just this one problem. If you could help it wuold be greatly appreciated.
The height of the flagpole is 3/4 the height of the school. The difference in their height is 4.5m. What is the height of each?
I am thankful to all tutors out their who help students like me. You are awesome.
If you can help me that would be great.
Thanks.
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Question 39032: If f(x,y) = x+2y what is
a.f(3,5)
b.f(5,3)
c.f(a,b)
d.f(b,a)
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Question 39034: 12.Mr. Coyne has some dimes and quarters. He has twice as many dimes as quarters. The total value of his coins is $8.10. How many dimes does he have?
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Question 39035: The length of a rectangle is three times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 348. Find its lengths
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Question 39035: The length of a rectangle is three times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 348. Find its lengths
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