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Question 447759: Suppose you have a rectangular pool that measures 20 feet long by 10 feet wide. You want to install a fence around the pool so that it is the same distance away from the pool on all four sides. How far away from the pool can the fence be if you buy 100 feet of fencing?

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Question 447777: We are learning about Locus'. The directions say to sketch and label each locus, the problem is: all points in a plane 0.75 in. from a line RS.
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Question 447954: how many water to be filled in a tank to 1 inch height, area of tank is 1000 square feet?
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Question 448014: Does { (2,3), (2,4) } span 2 space?

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Question 448069: There are two right circular cylinders. The radius of the first cylinder is 4 centimeters, and its height is 5 centimeters. The radius of the second cylinder is 12 centimeters, and its height is also 5 centimeters. What is the ratio of the volume of the larger cylinder to the volume of the smaller cylinder
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Question 448775: if one piece of square tile measures 8 inches by 8 inches, what is the least number of tiles they will need to cover the patio floor if the square footage is 168sq.ft.
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Question 448919: i have a wire of 50 cm in length. in which shape(triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, circle, hexagon) i should bend it to get maximum enclosing area
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Question 448932: If the diagonal of a square is halved, the ratio of its area to that of original one is?
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Question 448764: the length of a rectangular swimming pool is 4 ft. more than twice the width. If perimeter is 128 Ft., find width
I put 2w+4 =128 then tried w(2w+4)=128, they aren't working...
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Question 449030: Kumar walks around a rectangular field the length of which is twice its width. He then walks around another rectangular field half as wide but having the same perimeter as the first field. If the difference in area between the two fields is 432 m, find the length of the second field.
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Question 449403: The length of a rectangular garden is 12 fet more than the width. The formula for perimeter is P=2L+2W. If the perimeter equals 44 feet, what is the length of the garden? Please help explain how this problem would be solved. Thank You!!
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Question 449831: a circle has a diameter with endpoints (5, -2) and (-13 -6) what are the coordinates of the center of the circle
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Question 449894: A square piece of cardboard has an area of 36c m square. A square of 1 cm squared is cut from each corner. The sides are folded on order to make an open box. What is the volume of this box?

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Question 450051: A rectangular garden is three times as long as it is wide. if the area of the garden is 1323 ft^2, find the length and width of the garden.
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Question 450071: if it takes 5 quarts to paint a 10m by 30m wall, how many quarts will it take to paint a 30m by 90m wall?
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Question 450093: I'm worse at geometry than I am at algebra, can someone please help me?
A rectangular pen for a pet is 3 feet longer than it is wide. Give possible values for the width, W of the pen if its area must be beyween 238 & 460 square feet inclusively.
I'd be grateful.
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Question 450354: The area of a rectangular conference table is 51 square feet. If its length is 4 feet longer than its width, find the dimensions of the table. Round each dimension to the nearest tenth of a foot, if necessary.
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Question 450452: The length of a rectangle is 7 inches more than three times the width. The perimeter is 94 inches. Find the length and width
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Question 450466: what is the volume of a box that is 8 feet by 7 feet by 4 feet
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Question 450506: The area of a triangle is 76 m2, and the length of its base is 4 m. Find the height
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Question 450704: a woman has 8 yards of fencing, how much of a rectangular area can she enclose?
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Question 450703: a course has 5 equally weighted exams. a student has grades so far of 62%, 73%, 81% and 79%. what would the student need on the last exam for a score of at least 70%?
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Question 450737: A circular piece of paper has a 5 cm radius. It is cut once through to the centerand curled up to form a model of a cone with a height of 4 cm. Find the volume and surface area of the cone.
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Question 450846: How do you set up the problem:
A 24 foot board is cut into 2 pieces. One piece is 24 less than double the other piece. How many feet long is the bigger piece?
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Question 450887: A 112ft. building casts a shadow of 84 feet at the same time a 39 feet tree casts a shadow, how long is the tree's shadow?
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Question 450813: If the sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 1800� where one of the interior angles measures 172� and all others are congruent, how many sides
does the polygon have? Draw the polygon.
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Question 450763: A crew can row 60 km downstream in 3 hours. The return trip takes 5 hours. Find the rowing rate of the crew in still water and the rate of the current.
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Question 451118: the length of each side of a square is 25 feet. Find the length of a diagonal of the square to the nearest tenth.
a.28.7 b.30.2....c.33.6.....d35.4
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Question 451337: carpet cost $9.85 a squrare yard. how much would it cost to carpet a room 24 feet long and 18 feet wide
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Question 451408: In June last year 141 million people were internet users,which accounted for 29.3% of of the world's online audience. How many people world wide were internet users in June of last year?
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Question 451585: An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two sides having the same measurement and one side having a different measurement. The longest side of an isosceles triangle is 12 cm less than twice as long as the other sides. The perimeter of the triangle is 104 cm. Find the lengths of the three sides and list them in ascending order.

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Question 451613: Can someone please help me with this?
Colin is buying dirt to fill a garden bed that is 9 feet by 16 feet. If he wants to fill it to depth of 4 in. how many cubic yards of dirt does he need?
Thank you!
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Question 451616: Can someone help me with this? Please!!
You can use displacement to find the volume of an irregular object, such as a stone. Suppose a tank 1 ft wide and 2 ft long is filled with water to a depth of 8 inches. A stone is placed n the rank so that it is completely covered, causing the water level to rise by 2 inches. Find the volume of the stone.
Thank you!! :)
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Question 451708: if a rectangle has a area of 247 square centimeters, what is its perimeter?

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Question 451850: find the length and width of the rectangle
Perimeter: 30 inches; Area: 26 square inches
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Question 451850: find the length and width of the rectangle
Perimeter: 30 inches; Area: 26 square inches
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Question 451907: find the length of time for $25000 to triple when it is invested at 8% annual interest rate, compounded continuously.
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Question 452162: Given the following sets, select the statement below that is true.
A = {l, a, t, e, r}, B = {l, a, t, e}, C = {t, a, l, e}, D = {e, a, t}

C ⊆ A and A ⊂ D
B ⊆ D and A ⊆ A
B ⊂ D and C ⊂ A
D ⊂ C and C ⊂ B
C ⊆ A and D ⊂ C
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Question 452168: The cardinal number of the set {cat, dog, horse, fish, lizard, meerkat, rhinoceros, elephant, giraffe, platypus, hippopotamus, skunk, mouse} is _________.

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Question 452178: A lot is in the shape of a right triangle. The shorter leg measures 180m The hypotenuse is 60m longer than the length of the longer leg. How long is the longer leg?
A man rode a bicycle for 12 miles and then hiked an additional 8 miles. The total time for the trip was 5 hours. If his rate when he was riding a bicycle was 10 miles per hour faster than his rate walking, what was each rate?
Frank can type a report in 2 hours and James takes 5 hours. How long will it take the two of them typing together?
The sum of a student's three scores is 228. If the first is 21 points more than the second, and the sum of the first two is 3 more than twice the third, what was the first score?
The function F described by F(C) = (9/5)C + 32 gives the Fahrenheit temperature corresponding to the Celsius temperature C. Find the Fahrenheit temperature equivalent to -25 C.
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Question 452165: Given the following set, select the statement below that is true.
A = {q, r, s, t, u}

p ∈ A
5 ∈ A
r ∉ A
s ∈ A
A �
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Question 452232: a person 2 m tall casts a shadow 5 m long. at the same time,a building casts a shadow 24 m long. how tall is the building?
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Question 452209: If an object is in free fall, the sequence 16, 48, 80, ... represents the distance in feet that the object falls during the first second, during the second second, during the third second, and so on. How far will the object fall during the first 9 seconds?
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Question 452314: about how many revolutions must a 4 foot diameter wheel make in order to travel 200 yards
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