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Question 481519: The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 2:4:5. If the perimeter of the triangle is 88 meters, determine the length of the each side.
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Question 481539: a photo that is 3 inches wide and 5 inches long is being enlarged to 12 inches long. how wide will the enlarged photo be?
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Question 481574: A qudrilateral has interor angles x,2x,4x and 5x.calculate x
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Question 481963: planes p and r intersect in l
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Question 481934: The perimeter of a triangle is 49 centimeters. The longest side is 5cm less than the sum of the other two sides. Twice the shortest side is 10cm less than the longest side. Find the lengths of each side of the triangle.
Then lengths of the sides, from shortest to longest are..
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Question 482343: a box has length of 20 inches, the height of 12 inches, and the width of 38 inches. What is the volume of the box using the formula V=lwh?
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Question 482359: Two plastic containers have square bases, but the base of one container is 10 cm longer and wider than that of the other. Both containers are filled to a depth of 30 cm. Find the dimensions of the base of each container if the volume of water in the larger container exceeds that in the smaller container by 15,000 cm3 (cubic centimeters)
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Question 482325: A rectangular pool is three times as long as it is wide. A redwood walkway 2 m wide with an area of 208 m^2 borders the pool. What are the dimensions of the pool?
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Question 482316: A rectangular area is 5 m longer as it is wide. One side of a square swimming pool will match exactly the width of the area. After the pool is built, the area left will be only 30 m^2. How wide is the area?
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Question 482234: to form an open box, squares of side 4 cm are cut from each corner of a square piece of tin and then the sides of the tin are turned up. If the volume of the box is to be 400 cubic centimeter. What should be the area of the original piece of tin be?

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Question 482162: A boy needs a piece of plywood measuring 0.75 meters long and 0.55 meter wide. Find the perimeter in centimeters.
An aquarium is 70cm long, 35cm wide and 40cm deep. How many cubic centimeters of water does it contain when it is 3/4 full?
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Question 482422: what is a rectangle that has a perimeter between 20 and 100 inches and its perimeter is divisible by 8 and its lenght is more than twice its width?
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Question 482702: A conveyor belt can transport 2 boxes at any one time with a total volume of 20 m3. If the boxes are of equal volume and the area of the base of each box is 8 m2, Calculate the height of the boxes
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Question 482863: If the side of a square is increased by 10%, its area increased by k%. Find the value of k
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Question 482883: Evaluate: 7C5
thank you.
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Question 482883: Evaluate: 7C5
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Question 482903: Show the conjecture is false by finding a counterexample. The quotient of two whole numbers is a whole number
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Question 482925: find the length of the word mathematics to the nearest tenth of a centimeter
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Question 482935: Points A, B, C, D, and E are coplanar and no three are collinear. In how many way can the plane be named using only these points?
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Question 483060: The perimeter of a rectangle is 52. The length is 6 times greater than the width. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
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Question 483060: The perimeter of a rectangle is 52. The length is 6 times greater than the width. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
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Question 483171: The world's first billion dollar home is a 27 story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai, India. It is 550ft high with 400,000 square feet living space. What would be the cost of carpenting the entire living space if the cost of the carpet were $36 per square yard?
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Question 483547: The cost of a high-school ring is $145 for the large size and $115 for the regular. The total receipts from the sale of 120 rings was $15,060. How many rings were sold?
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Question 483709: Find the supplementary angle of 84�
6�
16�
84�
96
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Question 483796: The perimeter of a rectangle is 188 inches. The length exceeds the width by 90 inches. find the length and width.
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Question 483846: What is the area of a square whose 1 side is 9.2 units?
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Question 484099: the measure of the supplement of an angle is 20 more than three times the measure of the original apple. find the messures of the angles.
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Question 484246: a triangle made from rope.side of triangle is 3,4,5cm.wats the area of square made by same rope?

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Question 484395: Think I have the formula wrong cause my answer doesn't seem to make sense:
In a right triangle, find the length of the side not given. A=5, c=13
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Question 484432: construct a truth table for ~p->(p^~q). be sure to include all intermediate steps.
Thank you ahead of time.
jb
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Question 484513: if a rectangle has its dimensions multiplied by four, what happens to its perimiter?
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Question 484512: if one dimension is doubled and a second dimension is tripled, the volume will be what time large?
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Question 484539: Describe in owrds how to find the number of border tiles for any garden length?
and
Write an expression that represents your method for finding the number of border tiles, given the garden length?
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Question 484568: Two vertical ropes have heights 6ft and 12 ft. a rope is stretched from the top of each pole to the bottom of the other. How far above the ground do the ropes cross?
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Question 484574: The perimeter of a triangle must be no more than 55 cm. One side of the triange is 18 cm. and a second side is 13cm. Find the largest possible length of the third side.
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Question 484586: A rectangle is 2 cm longer than it is wide. The diagonal of the rectangle is 10 cm long. Find the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 484808: Hello, i have posted this problem several times, and i cant seem to get help.
can you help me please.
construct a truth table for ~p->(p^~q)

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Question 484898: Word Problem for Perimeter - the length of a rectangle is twice the width - perimeter 36 ft
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Question 485061: Leonardo of Pisa (about 1175-1258) was born in Italy and educated in North Africa. He was one of the first Europeans to use modern numerals instead od Roman numerals. He is also known for the Fibonacci Sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,.... Find the next three items..
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Question 485068: all rectangles with a perimeter of 20 feet have the same area?
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Question 485242: The length of a rectangle is 3n+2 and its width is n-1. The perimeter of the rectangle is twice the sum of its length and its width. Write an expression that represents the perimeter.
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Question 485361: What is the area of a rectangle given the dimensions. 4 ft. x 4 inches
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Question 485600: How Do U Solve 10a - 5b = 25 for B?
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Question 485543: write a conjecture about the letters you expect on a telephone key.
1 2 3
4 5 6 is already on there.
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Question 485544: which of the following is a counterexample of the conjecture below?
a. 2,2
b. 1/2,2
c. 3,10
d. 2, -1

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