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Question 429840: This is a question from the Circles and Arcs subject of my Geometry book. I am clueless about what formula to use. Please help, the problem is: "The wheel of one car has a diameter of 20 inches. The wheel of another car has a diameter of 24 inches. About how many more revolutions must the smaller wheel make than the larger wheel to travel 100 feet?"
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Question 430322: if x and y are positive numbers with x>y, show that a triangle with sides of lengths 2xy, x^2-y^2, and x^2+y^2 is always a right triangle
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Question 430447: the length of a rectangular field is 6 times its breadth its area is 1350 sq.m find its perimeter?
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Question 430712: A baseball field is a quarter circle. If the distance down each foul line in 360 ft, what is the area of the baseball field to the nearest whole number?
Thank you!
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Question 430794: if the perimeter of a regular hexagon is is 282 yards, find the length of one of the sides. PLEASE HELP ME I AM STUCK. THANKS
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Question 430817: the sum of two consecutive odd numbers plus the next even number is 56.write an algebraic equation that can be used to solve this problem. what is the larger odd number?
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Question 430864: Ten pounds of mixed birdseed sells for $7.30 per pound. The mixture is obtained from two kinds of birdseed, with one variety priced at $5.74 per pound and the other at $8.86 per pound. How many pounds of each variety of birdseed are used in the mixture?
how much pounds at $5.74 per pound?
how much pounds at $8.86 per pound?

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Question 431274: a satellite completely orbits earth in 216 days. determine the angle through which the satellite travels over a period of 12 days
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Question 431442: The perimeter of a square garden is 216 feet. How long is each side?

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Question 431658: If jessica colored 3 out of 7 triangles blue and there are 63 triangles -how many triangles are blue? I had 9 as my answer but my teacher said the answer is 27??
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Question 431668: Two angles of a triangle are equal. The third angle of this triangle is twice as large as the sum of the first two angles. How long is each angle?
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Question 431733: an apartment building has 45 windows on each side. each window is a rectangle that is 2ft. x 4ft. what is the area of glass in the building?
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Question 431865: Find the slope:
(2,10) and (5,-1)
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Question 431929: You Have 200 feet of fencing material to make a pen for livestock. If you make a rectangular pen, what is the maximum area you can fence in?
Extend the table below to determine the anwer.
Base=5 Perimeter=200 Height=? Area=?
Base=20 Perimeter=200 Height=? Area=?
-- I need Help in finding the Height and Area to determine the answer--
Please help Me (:
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Question 431927: You have 200 feet of fencing material to make a pen for live stock. If you make a rectangular pen, what is the maximum aree you can fence in?
Extend the table to determine the anser.
Base=3 Permimeter=200 Height=? Area=?
Base=20 Perimeter= 200 Height=? Area=?
I need help finding out the height and Area.
Help me Please & Thank you (:
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Question 432014: if the perimeter is 90 and the length is 7 inches shorter than triple the width, what are the demensions?

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Question 432317: Two coast guard ships, the Alpha and the Beta, are 3000ft apart. The angles from a line between the Coast Guard ships to a disabled ship are shown in the diagram at the right. How far is the disabled ship from each Coast Guard ship? Round your answers to the nearest foot.
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Question 432323: the length of a rectangle is five feet more than twice its width. the area is 133 sq ft. find dimensions of the rectangle.
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP I KNOW I HAVE TO SET UP A COUPLE EQUATIONS BUT NOT SURE HOW. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS IN ADVANCE.
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Question 432487: Find the volume Of each prism.
A square prism with a base area of 49 ft squared and a height of 2 ft less than the base edge length.
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Question 432571: At a point on the ground 60ft from the base of a tree, the distance to the top of the tree is 4 ft more than 2 times the height of the tree. Find the height of the tree....
I know this involves pythagorean theorem but I am stuck with factoring..I can never get it right..
3h^2+16h-3584 this is the max I can get to..need ur help in solving I cant get it thru quadratic funtion formula too pls explain in detail how to get furhter than this thanku
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Question 432667: Hello!
Mel plans to fence his yard for his new puppy. The yard is a 41 ft by 125 ft rectangle. Fencing costs $15 per 10 ft section. What is the cost of the fence?
I always thought I was good at word problems but I cant seem to get this one started. Even if i can get help with just starting this off I'm sure I'll figure it out. Thank you so much for the help!
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Question 432784: She have 25 feet of fencing. If she wants to have the greatest area possible, how long should her garden be? How wie should it be?
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Question 432784: She have 25 feet of fencing. If she wants to have the greatest area possible, how long should her garden be? How wie should it be?
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Question 432805: Hannah has a desk, it is a rectangle. two sides are 25cm and the other two sides are 100 cam. What is the area of the desk?
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Question 432898: a wheel of one car has a diameter of 20 in, the wheel of another car has a diameter of 24 in. About how many more revolution must the smaller wheel make than the larger wheel to travel 100ft?
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Question 432987: you have a cubic block of 10x10x10 and paint the outside of this block red.
a) How many little cubes are painted red on at least 1 face?

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Question 432722: A child's wading pool has a diameter of 7 feet and is 8 inches deep. How many gallons of water can the pool hold? Round answer to the nearest 0.1 gallon.
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Question 433252: if thesquare were to be covered with 1inch squares,how many squares would be neede
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Question 433513: the altitudes of two similar pyramids are in the ratio of 4:5. what is the ratio of their volumes?
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Question 433574: Find the perimeter of a rectangle whose area =63ft^2 and whose length is 2ft longer than its width? If you can solve it normally or using the Pythagorean Theorem?

Thank You
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Question 433577: Hi There,
I need help in math but i was just wondering if you could help me with this problem: Solve for X. Then Classify the triangle by its angle meausures.
Angle#1:90;angle#2:X;angle#3:(X+20)
Here's what I've tried:
First I put it in an equation:90+(X+20)+X
Next I thought i was supposed to distribute,so I did:90 times X=90x + 90 times 20=1800(90x+1800=180)
But 180 is smaller than 1800..and that's where I got Stuck.. Please Help me and Thanks for trying
-Heaven C.
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Question 433636: a rectangular garden is surrounding by a walk of uniform width. The area of a garden is 180 sq yards. If the dimensions of the garden plus the walk are 16 yds by 24 yds, what is the width of the walk?
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Question 433953: what is the perimeter of a table if it measures 2.5 ft by 5 ft?
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Question 433998: A pentagon has 1 side of legth zcm, 2 sides of length (z+2)cm each, 1 side of length 5z cm, and 1 side of length is 3z cm. What is the perimeter, in centimeters, of the pentagon?
a)9z+6, b) 6z+9, c)6z+4, d)5z+9, e)5z+7
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Question 434006: Jamal sees a tree on the shore directly across a lake and wonders what the distance is across the lake to the tree. He turns 90 degrees to the right and walks in a straight line for 100 meters. Jamal turns to face the tree and finds the angle between his line of sight and his path measures 25 degrees. Which of the following is closest to the distance, in meters, from Jamal's intial position on the tree? (note: sin-25 degrees=0.42, cos degrees=0.91, tan 25 degrees=0.47)
a)42 b)47 c)91 d)213 e)238
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Question 434118: If two angles are supplementary and the larger angle is 10 degrees less than four times the smaller angle, what is the difference of measures of the angles?
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Question 434080: The height of a triangle is 5 ft more than the length of the base. The area of the triangle is
63 ft^2 .
Find the base and height of the triangle
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Question 434249: if the perimeter of a rectangle is 294 and the width is 65 what is the length?
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Question 434258: The smallest angle of a triangle measures 44 degrees less than the largest angle. The sum of the two smaller angles is 20 degrees more than the measure of the largest angle. Find the measures of all three angles.
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Question 434186: Can someone please help me on this problem.
Doug Mientkewicz, the Minnesota Twins Gold Glove first baseman, received $285,000 for the 2002 season. By going to arbitration his 2003 salary was raised to $1.75 million. Find the percent of increase.
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Question 434410: Tim is welding a tank. He can make tank A, which would be 4 feet wide by 5 feet long by 3.5 feet deep. Or he can make tank B, which would be 4 feet wide, 5.5 feet long, and 3 feet deep. What is the difference in the number of cubic feet the tanks hold.
Thank you...
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Question 434431: A plane flying at 35,000 feet above the ground starts making a descent 150 miles from the airport. What is its angle of descent?
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Question 434431: A plane flying at 35,000 feet above the ground starts making a descent 150 miles from the airport. What is its angle of descent?
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Question 434734: Anita is going to put square tiles on the wall above the bathtub. THe tiles are 2 inches on each side. The section of wall is 64 inches long and 42 inches high. How many tiles will she need?
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Question 434731: The merrills are ordering sod for their lawn. The pieces of sod are 1.25 feet wide by 6 feet long. The lawn is 100 feet long by 60 feet wide. How many pieces of sod will they need?
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