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Question 394674: 1)The hypothenuse of right triangle is 15cm. the sum of the legs is 21cm. Find the legs of triangle.
2)A lidles box is constructed from a square piece of tin by cutting a 10cm square from each corner and bending up the sides for the box. if the volume of the box is 1200cm^3,find the dimensions to the nearest tenth of centimetre.
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Question 395496: An architect designs a rectangular flower garden such that the width is exactly two-thirds of the length. If 260 feet of antique picket fencing are to be used to enclose the garden, find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 395540: translate statement into formula
the total monthly earnings ,t, equal $16 per hour times the number of hours
worked, h,
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Question 395681: ab architect designs a room that has an interior measurements of 50.0 feet by 30.0 feet by 10.0 feet what is the volume in cubic feet?
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Question 395871: A pool measures 10 meters by 20 meters is surrounded by a path of uniform width. If the area of the pool and the path combined is 600 square meters, what is the width of the path?
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Question 395896: the diagram shows a rectangular dance floor with an area of 120 square meters and a width of 8 meters what is the length of the dance floor?

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Question 395923: Please help me solve this
If the length of a side of a square is increased by 3 centimeters, the perimeter of the new square is 40 centimeters more than twice the length of a side of the original square. Find the dimensions of the original square
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Question 395924: in triangle abc, an exterior angle at A measures 40. which is the longest side of the triangle
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Question 395960: what is the minimum number of segments that must intersect to form a point of concurrency?
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Question 396029: The area of a rectangular window is to 306 square centimeters. If the length exceeds the width by 1 centimeters, what are the dimentions?
How do I solve this problem? I want to learn step by step.
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Question 396162: you want to tile your kitchen floor. the floor measures 15ft by 9ft. how many tiles, each a square with side 1 1/2 ft, should you purchase for the job?
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Question 396380: The measures of two complementary angles are (14q+8)and 8q-6). Find the measures of the angles.
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Question 396482: you need to paint a rectangular 12 ft x 10 ft wall. One can of paint covers 35 sq ft. How many cans are needed to paint the wall?
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Question 396482: you need to paint a rectangular 12 ft x 10 ft wall. One can of paint covers 35 sq ft. How many cans are needed to paint the wall?
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Question 396478: How do I set up and solve: A ladder rests against ahouse at 15ft, the length of the ladder is 5 feet more than the distance from the house. What is the length of the ladder?
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Question 396670: area of a square garden is 174 meters estimate the side length of the garden
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Question 396750: The area of the wall you are going to paint is 50 feet square. If the width is half the height what are the dimensions of the wall?
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Question 396805: Is it possible to have two rectangles where the perimeter of the first is larger than the second but has a smaller area? explain and examples please
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Question 397524: Please help me solve this Word Problem. I can't seem to even figure out how to begin this problem. If the height of a triangle with a base of 6 inches is tripled, its area is increased by 24 square inches. Find the height of the triangle.
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Question 397619: how do you find the area of a rectangle measuring 32 inches in width and 22 inches in lenght
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Question 397590: A board is 18 inches long is cut into two pieces in the ratio 2:7. Find the length of each piece.
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Question 397926: the dimensions of a rectangle are such that its length is 5 inches more than its width. If teh length were doubled and the width were decreases by 2 inches the area would be increases by 52 inches squared what are the length and width of teh rectangel
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Question 398015: A farmer plans to enclose a rectangular region, using part of his barn for one side and fencing for the other three sides. If the side parallel to the barn is to be twice the length of an adjacent side, and the area of the region is to be 98 ft2, how many feet of fencing should be purchased?
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Question 398013: A rectangular plot of ground having dimensions 21 ft by 24 ft is surrounded by a walk of uniform width. If the area of the walk is 424 ft2, what is its width?
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Question 398082: a rectangle has perimeter 640cm and length 200cm. find its weidth?
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Question 398083: Deret geometri 2+2^2+2^3+....+2^n=254, n=....?
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Question 398097: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 3 m less than twice the common length. The perimeter of the triangle is 25m. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 398171: Hai Sir, please help me on this problem, i got stuck
1)Show that the points (-2,5),(3,-4) and(7,10)are the vertices of a right angled isosceles triangle.

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Question 398174: Hai sir, please help me on this problem,
3)If the points (-2,1),(a,b) and (4,-1) are collinear and a-b=1. then find the values of a and b.
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Question 398173: Hai Sir, please help me on this problem, i got stuck
2)The centre of a circle is (2x-1,7) and it passes through the point (-3,-1).If the diameter of the circle is 20units ,then find the values of x.

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Question 398271: The longer leg of a right triangle is 1M longer then the shorter leg. The hypotenuse is 1 M shorter than twice the shorter leg. Find the length of the shorter leg of the triangle.
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Question 398264: The length of the foundation of a rectangular house is to be 5 meters more than its width. Find the length of the house if the perimeter must be 70 meters.
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Question 398564: The perimeter of a retangle is 122 m. The length is 1 m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
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Question 398873: A rectangular field is 4 times as long as it is wide. Let the width be x and the length will therefore be 4x. If the length is decreases by 10 in. and the width is increased by 2 in. the perimeter will be 80 in. Find the dimensions of the original field.
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Question 398655: The volume of a rectangle chineses box is given by the formula V=LWH. The volume of the box shown on the right is 396 cu units. Find the width and length. Height 4; width is X; length is X+2. Please help me solve this.
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Question 398896: . The 1977 Super Bowl was played in
The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. In that football game the
Oakland Raiders scored 18 more points than the Minnesota
Vikings. If the total number of points scored was 46, then
what was the final score for the game?

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Question 399538: A student insists on finding a common denominator by always multiplying the denominators of the expressions being added. How could this approach be improved?

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Question 399866: a closed box with a square base is to have a volume of 1,500 cubic inches. Express its surface area as a function of its length.
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Question 399784: A Norman window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. (Thus the diameter of the semicircle is equal to the width of the rectangle.) If the perimeter of the window is 21 ft, find the dimensions of the window so that the greatest possible amount of light is admitted.

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Question 400127: A rectangular room is 1:8 times as long as it is wide,
and its perimeter is 27 meters. Find the dimension of the room
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Question 400288: It is a shape that looks like a big thick L and the vertical long side | is equal to 10cm and the horizontal _ is equal to 6cm the X's to find are on the very top of the | and the far right side of the _
the question is
if the shaded area is 128 cm2
,
then the length x in the ﬁgure is cm.
I know this is confusing but I don't know how else to explain it.
this url might work for you but I dont know
http://courses.webwork.maa.org:8080/wwtmp/armstrong_math1161/gif/Schlieper_CollegeAlgebra_HW2-prob13-c1s6p31.gif
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Question 400527: The perimeter of a rectangle backyard is 6x+6 yards. IF the width is x yards, find a binomial that repersents the lengh.
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Question 400659: I am not a student, but a housewife who would like to make some new kitchen curtains. I have measured them in inches, but fabric is sold by the square yard. What is the formula for converting inches to square yards? (One of my curtains measures 89 x 17.5 inches.) Thank you for any help you can give. I wish I had an old geometry textbook!
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Question 400708: A new circular fountain is being designed for a park. Suppose the designer of the fountain decides that the surface area of the water in the fountain should be 450 sq ft. Find the diameter of the fountain. explain how you found the diameter....
Okay I took the 450 with pi, and was incorrect my teacher marked me incorrect. I am allowed to correct and return the problems that I missed. I would appreciate honest help and information on how to find the solution to this problem. Thanks!
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