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Question 400802: the neighborhood swimming pool has a length that is 2 times its width. The width is 10 meters . what is the area of the swimming pool?
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Question 400559: Demonstrate one shape that will not tile a floor and why? I'm guessing a circle, but I can't exsplain why?

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Question 401165: A rectangle has a length 7 meters longer than double the width. The perimeter is 134 meters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 401180: Three harmful pollutants were measured by a consumer group in the city. The total sample contained 15 parts per million (ppm) of three harmful pollutants. The amount of the first pollutant was double the second. The amount of the third pollutant was 75% of the second. How many parts per million of each pollutant were found?
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Question 401161: Find the circumference of a circle with area of 9 square feet.
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Question 401297: Find the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of length 4 inches and one leg of length 2 inches.
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Question 401548: A rectangular room is 1.9 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 35 meters. Find the dimension of the room.
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Question 401657: the side of the square is 8 cm long,how long is its diagonal?
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Question 401816: Pleanse help me, I am mom trying to help my daughter with this problem but I can't get the right answer.
A website allows users to download individual songs or an entire album. All individual songs cost the same to download. Ryan pays $14.94 to download 5 individual songs and 1 album. Seth pays $22.95 to download 3 individual songs and 2 albums. How much does the website charge to download a song? an entire album?
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Question 402155: a triangular area has dimensions of 90 feet by 400 feet by 410 feet; is the area a right triangle? explain your answer

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Question 402150: can you solve this equation 3x = 2x + 6
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Question 402248: a parking lot has a perimeter of 500 ft. The width of 20 ft. less than the length. Find the dimensions.
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Question 402411: The area of a triangular sign is 33 square meters. the base of the triangle is 1meter less than double the altitude. find the altitude and the base of the sign
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Question 402633: the base of a rectangle is 60cm long.If the length of the rectangle is 12 cm greater than the width, find the dimensions.
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Question 401977: The length of a rectangle is six times its width. if the perimeter of the rectangle is 84ft find its area?
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Question 402774: the length of a rectangularstorage room is 2 feet longer than its width. if the area of the room is 120 square feet, find its dimensions
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Question 403095: A norman window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle of a diameter equal to the width of the rectangle. If the permimeter of the window is 20 feet, what dimensions will admit the most light (maximize the area)?
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Question 403320: A goat is tired to a 20 ft. tether at an outside corner of a rectangular barn which is 20 ft. x 40 ft. Compute the area in square feet of the complete grazing area for the goat.
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Question 403317: A circle whose radius is 10 is inscribed in a rectangle. Find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 403483: The lenth of a rectangle is three times the width. If the length was increased by 2 in. and the width 1 in. the new perimeter would be 62 in. what is the length and width?
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Question 403654: find the length of the diagnol of a square with the perimeter of 12 cm.
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Question 403715: what are the steps to solve the perimeter of a rectangle is 148cm? Please show the steps and answer the question
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Question 403760: a nut store normally sells cashews $9 per pound and almonds for $3.50 per pound. But at the end of the month and the almonds had not sold well, so in order to sell 60 pounds of almonds, the manager decided to mix the 60 pounds of almonds with some cashews and sell the mixture for $7.50 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the almonds to ensure no change in the profit?
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Question 404062: I have a perimeter of 15. I am not a square . Each of my sides is 3 units long. What shape am i?
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Question 403986: A wire 310 in. long is cut into two pieces. One piece is formed into a square and the other into a circle. If the two figures have the same area, what are the lengths of the two pieces of wire (to the nearest tenth of an inch)?
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Question 404052: If the sides of a square are increased by 4 cm, the area is increased by 4cm square. Find the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 404117: A piece of wire is 8 inches long. The wire is cut into two pieces and then each piece is bent into s square. Find the length of each piece if the sum of the areas of these squares is to be 2 square inches.
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Question 404069: How do I compute how to cover a box with wrapping paper that is 12 inches height by 24 inches width by 16 inches depth?
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Question 404405: the length of a rectangle is 3 meters less than tiwice the width.if the area is 464 square meters,find the dimensions 464
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Question 404627: The width of a rectangle is 7m more than the length. Find the dimensions if the area is 60 sq. meters.
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Question 404552: a perosn is flying a kite while holding the string 8ft above the ground at an angle of 73 degrees. If the string is 50 ft long, find the altitude of the kite.
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Question 404019: a rectangle has a perimeter of 74 inches. the length of one side is 3X-1.
the width of one side is 2X+3. What is the area?
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Question 405447: I need help with this problem please:
The length of a rectangular patio is three feet less than twice the width. The perimeter of the patio is ninety feet. Find the length and width.
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Question 405506: a new sidewalk will be 4ft long, 120ft wide, and 3inches in depth. how many cubic yards of concrete needed
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Question 405743: A swimming pool is in the shape of a rectangle. The length of the pool is 15 feet more than the width. A concrete deck 6 feet wide is added around the pool, and the perimeter of the deck is 178 feet. Find the dimension of the swimming pool.
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Question 406082: If the length and width of a rectangle is increased by 10 percent,then the perimeter of the triangle is increased by ?
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Question 406089: "what is the valu of a variable of (3x+20)"
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Question 406089: "what is the valu of a variable of (3x+20)"
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Question 406058: Michell went into a frame shop. He wanted a frame that was 3 inches longer than it was wide. The frame he chose to extend 1.5 inches beyond the picture on each side. Find the outside dimensions of the frame in the area of the unframed picture in 70in^2.
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Question 406676: A vertical plane intersects a right circular cone, whose slant height is 10 cm and diameter is 12 cm.What is the largest isosceles triangle formed?
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Question 406697: if you double the width of a square, how much does the area of the square increase?
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Question 406726: A pasture is twice as long as it is wide. Its area is 115,200 ft square. How wide is the pasture?
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Question 407197: a cylinder of height h cm and radius r cm stands on a table. a cone of height H cm is placed over the cylinder and the rests on the table wit the top of the cylinder touching the inside of the cone. the ratio r:R is 2:5
use the given ratio to write an expression for r in terms of R
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