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Question 413747: what is the lenght and width of a rectangle if the perimeter is 110
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Question 413867: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 308 ft. If the length of the garden is 89 ft, what is its width?
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Question 414352: A 20-ft board is cut into three pieces. The second piece is three times as long as the first. The third piece is twice as long as the second. Find the lengths of the pieces.
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Question 414297: Calculate the number of sides a regular polygon has if an interior angle is five times of an exterior angle?please show working
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Question 414362: If the sides of a square are decreased by 2 cm, the area is decreased by
36 cm2. What were the dimensions of the original square?

Please help. I don't even know how to start.
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Question 414702: The base of a triangle is x cm long and its altitude is quarter the length of its base. if the triangle has an area of 12 cm2, form an equation in x and solve it.
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Question 414738: The baso of a triangle is x cm longh and its altitude is quarter the length of its base. if the area of the triangle is 12 cm2, form an equation in x and solve it. state the altitude of the triangle.
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Question 414756: find the area of each circle. use 22 over 7 as pie. and radis = 15 in.
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Question 414921: Two angles are supplementary and one is 40 degrees more than three times the other. find the smaller angle.
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Question 415058: The number of inches in an altitude of a triangle is twice the number of inches in the base. The area of the triangle is 204 square inches. Find the number of inches in the altitude and the number of inches in the base.
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Question 415211: How much does it cost to fence a circular wading pool area if the pool area has a diameter of 12 feet and fencing will cost $7.00 per foot?
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Question 415212: Find the measures of the three angles of a triangle if the largest is 14 degrees less than three times the smallest, and the other angle is 4 degrees more than the smallest.
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Question 415213: The arch over the window is 36 inches. The radius of the circle that is formed is 12. What is the measure of the central angle?
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Question 415244: what is the perimeter of a rectangular field if it is 528 and the length is 5 times longer than it is wide.
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Question 415260: what is the length and width of a triangular sign if the length exceeds the width by 15 inches and the perimeter is 158 inches?
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Question 415189: A pole casts a shadow of 25ft at one time and a shadow of 10 ft at a later time when the angle of elevation is twice as large. Find the height of the pole, to the nearest foot.
I have tried using the double angle identity of tan and am stuck at 50h/625-h squared = h/10
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Question 415334: This question is from the practice test of the CSET MATH/SCIENCE SUBTEST.
Four congruent triangles, each having legs of length a and b and hypotenuse of length c, are arranged to produce square EFGH.
Using your knowledge of algebra and geometry:
*write an expression for the area of square EFGH in terms of the length of its sides;
*write an expression for the area of square EFGH in terms of the area of its component parts (i.e., four triangles and a square); and
*set these two expressions equal and show that this leads to a proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
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Question 415805: Find the slope of the line that contains (-1,9) and (-1, 1)
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Question 415803: Find the slope of the line passing through the points A(6,-7) and B(-8,-3)
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Question 415969: The perimeter of a rectanglar playground is 40 yards. It is 1.5 yards longer than it is wide. What is the area of the playground?
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Question 415906: How do you solve this problem?
If the area of a square is 81 inches, what is the length of one of the side?

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Question 415987: How Many Diagonals Can Be Drawn From One Vertex Of A 12 Sided Polygon?
Can you please show the work?
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Question 416000: Find the area of a circular hot tub cover with a diameter that measures 6.5 feet

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Question 415921: An isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length. The length of the third side is 2ft less than twice the length of an equal side. Find the length of the thirs side when the perimeter is 42ft.
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Question 416077: the perimeter of the pool is 36. twice the lenth is 4m more then three times the width. what are the dimensions of the pool.
the lenght is 11.6 and width is 6.4 but i have no idea how to get that
answer in full please
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Question 415788: The rectangular swimming pool measures 40 feet by 60 feet and is surrounded by a path of uniform width around the four edges..The perimeter of the rectangle formed by the pool and the surrounding path is 248 feet. Determine the width of the path.
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Question 415899: The box has a volume of 16 cubic feet. The width should be 2 feet less than the height. The length should be 4 feet greater than the height. Find the dimensions of the box.
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Question 416213: One leg of a right triangle is 4 less than twice the other leg. If its hypotenuse is 10 how long are the two legs
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Question 416598: how do you solve this problem????
A square vegetable garden is to be tilled and then enclosed with a fence. If the fence costs $1 per foot and the cost of preparing the soil is $0.50 per ft2 , determine the size of the garden that can be enclosed for $120.
i have a answer but i can't really follow this question...:((
could you explain it in details? :))

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Question 416680: A 20 meter wooden pole is cut into two parts that have the ratio 3 to 2. How much longer is the larger part than the smaller?
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Question 416682: the width of a rectangle is 2 meters more than one third of the length . the perimeter of the rectangle is 44 meters. find the length and width of the rectangle.
thank you
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Question 416814: The width of a box is 3 feet less than the length. The height is 4 feet less than the length. The volume of the box is 36 cubic feet. Find the length of box .
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Question 416802: solve the problem using square root:
the area of a square is determined by squaring the length of its side. if the area is 361 square meters, what is the length of the square?
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Question 416938: A pizza parlor divides a pizza into 8 eual slices. Each slice of pizza looks exactly the same. The pizza has rotational symmetry. What is the angle of rotation for the pizza?
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Question 416986: To find the energy of Earthquakes (measured in Joules) scientists use the equation: E = (2.5 x 104) x 101.5M where M is the magnitude of the earthquake. Jimmy knew that an earthquake had 2.7678E18 Joules of energy. What was the magnitude?
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Question 416963: how long is two pieces of fabric that are each 24 meters long are cut into 25 equal pieces
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Question 417155: I really REALLY need help, this project is due tonight! I need to figure out what the length and width and all I have is the square feet.
Original length and width
50l x 36w = 1800sq ft
Width is 14 ft less than the length
New square feet
l x w = 1106
How do I find the new length and width?
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Question 417178: The length of a rectangule is 2 cm more than 5 times the width, the perimeter is 196 cm. find the width and length
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Question 417178: The length of a rectangule is 2 cm more than 5 times the width, the perimeter is 196 cm. find the width and length
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Question 417709: Find the area of a circular plot of ground that has a
radius of length 14 meters. Use 3 1/7 as an approximation
for PI.
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Question 417635: Suzy wears a baseball cap all the time to emphasize that she is a tomboy. She�s always setting up a problem to solve. Today, she wants to figure out the distance across a nearby river. It�s a cloudy day, so she can�t see the sun. Also she can�t swim, but she does have a yardstick. Suzy�s side of the river is an open field, dotted with small rocks. Can you suggest a way for her to find the distance without adding additional measuring tools? Please explain
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Question 417888: An isosceles triangle is a triangle that has two sides of equal length, and the perimeter of any polygon is the sum of the side lengths of said polygon. If an isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 97 inches, and the two congruent sides are four times the sum of the third side and six, what are the lengths of the sides of the triangle?
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