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Question 452464: please calculate/solve for a right (90�) triangle when the vertical leg is 4" and hypotenuse is at a 30 degree angle (330�).
what is the length of the base in inches?
what is the length of the hypotenuse in inches?
IE.
if the vert Leg 4" and the hypotenuse is at 45�
than the horz. leg is 4"
and the hypotenuse is 5.66"
but this makes a different right triangle and this one is easy for me. I know I should have listened better 38 years ago! In the future how can I figure this myself?
Thanks you in advance,
Arye P Rubenstein
aprarye@ameritech.net
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Question 452523: Given these sets
A={1,2,3,4}
B={3,4,5,6,7}
C={3,5,7,9}
List the elements of this set
B ∩ (A ∪ C)
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Question 452530: The perimeter of a rectangle is 70m. The length is 5m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
What is the length and what is the width?
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Question 452799: what is the area of a triangle with the base of 12 ft. and height of nine ft.?

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Question 452799: what is the area of a triangle with the base of 12 ft. and height of nine ft.?

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Question 452854: in a rectangle, the ratio of the width to the length is 4:5. if rectangle is 40 centimeters long, find its width
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Question 453020: 1 bag of soil = 3 cubic feet garden size l= 9ft ; w=16 ft ; h=3 in how many bags of soil are needed? please give full solution thx
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Question 453140: A 180-m wire is cut into three pieces. The third piece is 2 m longer than the first. The second is two-thirds as long as the first. How long is each piece?
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Question 453164: The product of two consecutive parking spaces is 132. Find the parking-space numbers.
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Question 453159: Please help. A model for a building is 50 centimeters long, 38 centimeters wide, and 225 centimeters tall. On the model, 1 centimeter represents 2.5 meters.
1. How tall is the actual building in meters?
2.Determine the volume of the actual building in cubic meters and the surface area of the actual building including ceiling and floor.
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Question 453402: if a running trail is a circle. the diameter of the trail is 1 mile. about how many times would you need to run around the trail to run a total distance of 10 miles?
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Question 453568: A survey of flower gardeners showed the following:

45 grew roses 7 grew both roses and tulips 4 grew all three types
16 grew tulips 5 grew both orchids and tulips 9 grew none of these three
13 grew orchids 10 grew both roses and orchids

(a) How many grew only roses?
(b) How many grew both roses and tulips, but not orchids?
(c) How many grew only tulips?
(d) How many grew none of these three or only orchids?
(e) How many flower gardeners were surveyed?
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Question 453584: Can you show me how to work this problem: m
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Question 453659: Given U = {10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20}, A = {12, 14, 16, 18, 20}, and B = {11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20}.
Find A′ ∩ B′. Show your work, finding A�, then B� then find their intersection.
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Question 453667: a square has an area of 36 square centemeters a rectangle has the same area as the square if the rectangle long sides mesure 9 centemters what is the rectangles perimeter

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Question 453751: Two airplanes leave the airport at the same time, flying in opposite directions. One plane flies 100 miles per hour faster than the other. They fly for 4 hours and end up 2,000 miles apart. How fast do they each fly?

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Question 454108: A rectangle has an area of 240 square inches and a perimeter of 64 inches. Find the length and width.
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Question 453862: A rectangular field having an area of 2700 m^2 is to be enclosed by a fence, and an additional fence is to be used to divide the field in the middle. The cost of the fence down the middle is $24 per running meter, and the fence along the sides cost $36 per running meter. Estimate the dimensions of the field so that the total cost of the fencing material is least.

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Question 454554: If you have the volume of a cyliner(500km)You need to find the formula with that including pi,and I need help getting the height and radius of the cylinder using formulas along with the volume of the cylinder.Then I need to explain on how you got the answer.
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Question 454752: What is the volume of a rectangle with its sides being 9, and 6, and the hieght being 7? Please.
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Question 454764: Suppose there are two cubes, with the first cube having a side of h, and the second cube having a side of 5h. What is the relation of the volume of the first cube to the volume of the second
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Question 454735: A side of one square is 3cm longer than the side of a second square, and the area of the second square is 45cm squared less than that of the first square. Find the length of each square.
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Question 454910: Use two equations in two variables to solve each problem. (Through elimination or substitution)
A 50-meter path surrounds a rectangular garden. The width of the garden is two-thirds its length, find its area.
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Question 455197: Pls help me solve this problem: the floor has an area of 72 square meters. How many tiles are needed if each tile to be used measures 10 centimeter?
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Question 455327: The vectors (3,6) and (-2,k) are parallel. Find the value of k?
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Question 455425: i have 16 cubes and i make a cuboid with 20cm height, 20cm lenght and 40cm width. what is the side lenght of one of my cubes?
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Question 455444: the length of a football field is 30 yards more than its width. The perimeter of the field is 340 yards. What are the length and width?
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Question 455467: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 8feet less then three times the shorter leg and the longer leg is 8 feet more than twice the shorter leg. Find the lengths of the three sides of the ttriangle.
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Question 455532: What is the equation for solving the following.
The length os a rectangle is 5cm less than 3 times it's width. If the perimeter is 46cm what are the dimensions of the rectangle.
Thank you for any help you can give,
John
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Question 455594: U Guys Suck
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Question 455592: If two 5-in. diameter pipes join to form one large pipe that has the same capacity as the combined capacity of the two single pipes, what is the diameter of the large pipe?
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Question 455593: The length of a rectangle is six times its width.
If the area of the rectangle is 294in , find its perimeter
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Question 455755: A rectangular field has 6km. Perimeter and 2 sq.km area. What will be the difference between length and breath of the rectangle?
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Question 455762: Find the area of a square field, if its each side is 10 3/4m long?

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Question 456009: a 26 inch television has a diagonal of 2 inches. if the length is four more than twice the width, what are the dimensions of the television?
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Question 456102: Wally wants to determine the height of a statue that casts a 129-inch shadow by comparing it to his own height and shadow length. If Wally, who is 63 inches tall, casts a shadow that is 43 inches in length, what is the height of the statue?
I tried dividing 63 by 43 but it turned out as a decimal.I am not sur ehow to do this problem though =/
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Question 456261: If a square region has an area of 90 square yards, what is the amount of fencing needed to enclose it?
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Question 456361: the length of the flower garden is 4ft less than 5 times the width. the area of the proposed garden is 57ft what is the length of the flower garden
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Question 456455: If the perimeter of a certain rectangle is 78cm. and the width is 12cm., what is the length?
P=2w + 2l
So, my equation looks like this: 78 = 12w + 2l (I'm not even sure that's right)
This is what I came up with:
I am trying to isolate L.....
78 = 12w + 2l
---------------
2 2
At this point I get confused as to what to do next.....please help?

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Question 456561: The volume of a box is 192 cubic inches. the hight is 4 inches the width is 2 inches more than the length. Find the missing dimensions.
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Question 456638: A rectangular park is 100yards wide and 150yards long.
Give the length and width of another rectangular park that has the same perimeter but a larger area.
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Question 456631: What is the approximate volume of the cylinder ? Use 3.14 for pi
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Question 456776: A garden's length is 6 feet more than its width. The walkway around the garden is 3 feet wide. The area of the walkway is 216 feet. What are the dimensions of the garden?
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