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Question 390225: two people walk away from each other at an angle, one moving straight ahead at left 6 feet per second, the other is moving straight ahead at 4 feet per second. After 5 seconds, they are 45 feet apart. If they continue the same angle, How far apart will be after one minute.
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Question 390488: Length is 50% longer than width with an area of 294
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Question 390511: lacy made a scale model of her house. her house is 45 feet tall. her model is 9 inches tall.what is the scale of the model? how many times as tall as her house is her model?

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Question 390512: andrew made a scale of the Washington Monument. the monument is 555feet tall and his model is 15 inches tall. What is the scale of the model? how many times as tall as the Washington Monument is his model?

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Question 390537: what would the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 192km?
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Question 390537: what would the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 192km?
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Question 390549: If perimeter of parallelogram is 60cm and the ratio between its dimensions is 2:3 then the length of each is........... , ........... cm

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Question 390551: What is the length of a diagonal of a sqaure with a perimeter of 28 centimeters?
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Question 390756: THE SUM OF THE MEASURES OF THE INTERIOR ANGLES OF A CONVEX POLYGON IS gIVEN. CLASSIFY THE POLYGON BY THE NUMBER OF SIDES.
1260Degrees
2160degrees
3240degrees
4680degrees
5400degrees
7560degrees
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Question 390881: I don't understand how to do this problem
An artist is creating a stained glass window and wants it to bea golden rectangle. To the nearest inch, what should be the length if the width is 24in. ?
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Question 390943: Find a number such that one half of it's square is equal to twice the number plus 8?
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Question 391098: Verify the identity:
Sec^2B=1\1-sin^2B
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Question 391094: express secX-SinXTanX as a single function of X.
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Question 391143: given the lateral area of the box below is 168 solve for x
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Question 391296: Can you please answer my question?
Students in a dancing class are spaced evenly around a circle and are then counted consecutively from 1.Student #20 is opposite student # 53.How many students are there in the group?
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Question 391467: I am taking the IL basic skills math test this Sat. morning so I need this answer solved before then if possible. I have the correct answer for it (on a practice test) but no explanation as to how it was reached. I'm trying to use the formulas and it doesn't make sense to me. So here it goes:
There's a photo of a cube above the Word problem.
A metal worker is building a wire frame (represented by the dotted and solid lines in the diagram above) for a cubic box that is to have a volume of 27 cubic feet. What is the total length of wire the metal worker will need.
So are they asking for the surface area? I know the formula for surface area is 6s2 and the formula for volume is s3. The correct answer is 36 feet but when I work out the problem I'm not getting that answer. Please help! Thank you.
Natalie
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Question 391610: The ratio of the measurements of the sides of a triangle is 7:5:3. If the perimeter is 300 meters find the lenth of all three sides.
thank you so much ive been stuck on this question for about 45 minutes . math is not my thing at all. ;(
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Question 391812: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 7m less than twice the common length. The perimeter of the triangle is 13m. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 392090: a 2cm wide frame is placed around a square photograph. if the total area of the frame and photograph is 144cm^2. determine the dimensions of the photograph
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Question 392245: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 15 centimeters long. one leg is 9 centimeters long. how long is the other leg?
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Question 392245: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 15 centimeters long. one leg is 9 centimeters long. how long is the other leg?
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Question 392269: A rectangular room is 1.7 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 28 meters. Find the dimension of the room.
The length is : ??? meters and the width is ??? meters.
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Question 392286: An artist wants her painting to be in the shape of a golden rectangle. If the length of the painting is 36 inches, then what should be the width?
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Question 392347: 300 ft of fencing is available to fence a rectangular pen where one side will be ordered by a barn. Find the dimentions of the pen so that the pen will have the maximum area.
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Question 392473: Find each interior angle of a regular pentagon.
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Question 392530: to find the height of a tower, a surveyor positions a transit that is 2 meters tall at a spot 40 meters from the base of the tower. She measures the angle of elevation to the top of the tower to be 46 degrees. What is the height of the tower, to the nearest meter?
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Question 392602: the length of a rectangular garden is 4m more than 3 times its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 56m, what are the dimesions of the garden?
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Question 392669: 2. Use kite RSTU to answer each of the following questions.
a. Find the measure of angle 1
b. Find the measure of angle 2
c. Find the value of x.
d. Find the value of y.
SR 4 cm
S angle 2
Angle R 35 degree

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Question 392726: Use kite RSTU to answer each of the following questions.
a. Find the measure of .
b. Find the measure of .
c. Find the value of x.
d. Find the value of y.

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Question 392778: The distance between two points in the coordinate plane is equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the difference between the x-coordinates and the difference between what?
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Question 392877: If the hypotenuse is 46",what is the height and length of the triangle?
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Question 392853: Tai
is fencing a triangular garden plot. he wants5 posts along each side. What is the least numbewr of posts that Tai will need?
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Question 392922: make a table of all possible whole-number pairs of length and width values for a rectangle with a perimeter of 18 meters
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Question 393072: Please help me solve this problem.

Two walls are in the shape of a trapezoid with bases that measure 12 feet and 28 feet and a height of 12 feet. You wish to wallpaper the two walls. One roll of wallpaper will cover 40 square feet. How many rolls of wallpaper should you purchase?

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Question 393071: Please help me solve this problem.

The height of a cylinder is 19 feet and its base has a radius of 9 feet. Find the exact volume of the cylinder in cubic feet (rounded to the nearest hundredth). Use pi = 3.14.

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Question 393296: if the area of a square is 484 square cintimeters whats the lenth of the diagnol
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Question 393540: A box with an open top is to be constructed from a rectangular piece of cardboard with dimensions 6 in. by 10 in. by cutting out equal squares of side x at each corner and then folding up the sides as in the figure. Express the volume V of the box as a function of x.
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Question 393656: A 60cm piece of wire is bent to form a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 25cm, find the length of the longer of the two legs of the right triangle. (Show your solution)
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Question 393663: The carpenter saws a board into two pieces. He wants one piece to be 3 feet longer than twice the length of the shorter piece. Find the length of each piece when a = 30.

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Question 393673: A student has scores of 73, 76, and 83 on three exams. What score is needed on a fourth exam to make the student's average 80 or better? (Use x to represent the student's score on the fourth exam.)

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Question 393928: the area of a rectangle is 20 square feet.one side is 5 feet.what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 393911: A person runs 18 blocks east, 5 blocks south, and 6 blocks west. What is the actual distance from where they started?
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Question 394155: The length of a rectangle is 6m longer than its width.
If the perimeter of the rectangle is 44m , find its area.
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Question 394157: Justin can jog to work in 3/4 of an hour. When he rides his bike, it takes him 1/3 of an hour. If he rides 12 miles per hour faster than he jogs, how far away is his work?
Do not do any rounding.

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Question 394516: The second angle of a triangle measures 10 degrees more than the first angle. The third angle measures 30 degrees less than twice the second angle. what are the measures of the three angles?
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