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Question 499191: The sum of four natural numbers a1, a2, a3 and a4 is
210. What is the minimum possible LCM of these 4 mentioned
natural numbers?
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Question 499145: Find the perimeter of the air mattress if h = 63 inches and w = 25 inches.
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Question 499613: A jeweler has 2 meters of gold wire. He is going to make pairs of gold earrings (each 25mm in diameter). How many pairs of earrings can he make?
I wasn't very sure how to go about this, so I converted to meters to millimeters then divided by 25 and got it wrong. I would appreciate some help.
-Emily
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Question 500171: A rectangular stained glass window has a perimeter of 42 feet. The height of the window is 2 times its width. Find the width of the window.
What am I suppose 2 do here.
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Question 500159: three more than 8 times a number is -29. find the number
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Question 499790: The perimeter of a standard-sized rectangular rug is 28 ft. The length is 2 ft. longer than the width. find the dimensions
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Question 500162: If a square has an area of 25 inches squared what is the length of one side of the square in simplest radical form?
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Question 500176: A board 45 feet long is cut into two pieces such that the length of one piece is two-thirds of the length of the other piece. Find the length of the shorter piece of board.
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Question 500100: The length of a rectangle is 8 more than 5 times its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 544. Find the length of the rectangle.

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Question 499895: The measure of the supplement of an angle is 40 more than two times the measure of the complement of an angle. Find the measure of the angle.
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Question 500135: The measurement of the second angle of a triangle is 21 degrees more than the measure of the first angle. The measure of the third angle is 15 degrees less than the measure of the first angle. Find the measure each angle of the triangle.
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Question 499791: a rectangular plot of land is to be used for a garden. 270 feet of fencing is to be used to enclos garden. what should demensions of garden be if length is twice as long as the width?
im not sure how to set up the equation to solve
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Question 498198: The perimeter of a triangle is 45 inches. The first side is twice the length of the second, and the third is 5 inches longer than the second. Find the length of each side.
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Question 500243: what is the volume of the biggest possible sphere that can be made out of a wooden cube whose side is 20 cm/

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Question 500738: Find the sum of the measures of the exterior angles, one at each vertex, of a convex octagon.
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Question 500894: the width and length of a rectangle are in the ratio of 5/4.How wide in the rectangle if the length is 34 cm more the width?

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Question 501066: marc goes to the store with exactly $1.00 in change. He has at least one of each coin less than a half-dollar coin, but does not have a half dollar coin. What is the most amount of coins he could have? What is the least amount of coins could he have?

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Question 501444: What is the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 5cm by 9cm
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Question 501539: (A U B)' (B' U A') draw a venn diagram to determine a amusement park survey 85 amusement parks it was answered 24 hotels on site,55 had water slides on site, 38 had a wave pool, 13 had a hotel on site and water slide, 10 had hotels and wave pool 19 water slides and wave pools 7 had all 3 features
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Question 502188: The Length of a rectangular garden is 4m greater than the width. Th area of the Garden is 96m squared. Find the length and the width.
I can get to the part of w(w+4)=96
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Question 502464: Why is the altitude of the triangle on te outside of the triangle?
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Question 502546: Heather is using 100 tiles that measure 1foot by 1 foot to cover a 10ft by 10ft floor. If she used tiles that measure 2feet by 2feet how many tiles would she need.?
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Question 502649: find the measure of each angle of a triangle if the ratio of the measure is 2:5:8
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Question 502743: The length of one leg of a right triangle is 5cm. The hypotenuse is 1 cm more than the other leg. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
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Question 502991: a spherical tank has a capacity of 750 gallons. using the fact that 1 gallon is about 0.1337ft^3, find the radius of the tank( to the nearest hundreth of a foot)
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Question 503181: A rectangle has a perimeter of 600 in. Express the area, A, of the rectangle as a function of the length of one of its sides x.
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Question 503224: what shape has a perimeter of 14 inches and the area of 8sq inches

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Question 503345: A total of $3900 was invested, part of it at 8% interest and the remainder at 13%. If the total yearly interest amounted to $395, how much was invested at each rate?
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Question 503482: Mr. Lindseyhad to order some new risers for the upcoming choral concert.The total for the small, lower tier is one dollar less than the upper, larger tier. Since it costs money from the cjoir budget, the numbers have to be entered as "negative numbers. The product of two consecutive negative integers as 1122. What are the numbers?
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Question 503498: a community flower garden measuring 12 meters by 16 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total area to 285 square meters. What ill be the width of the pathway?

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Question 503672: The machine shop of a factory occupies three times as much floor space as the shipping department. If the machine shop occupies 4200 square feet, how large is the shipping department?

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Question 503679: From a square piece of cardboard, a box with an open top is made by cutting equal squares from the corners, and folding up the sides. If the height of the box is 2 inches and the volume is 72 cubic inches, find the length of one side of the cardboard.
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Question 503532: You have a wire that is 53 cm long. You wish to cut it into two pieces. One piece will be bent into the shape of a square. The other piece will be bent into the shape of a circle. Let A represent the total area of the square and the circle. What is the circumference of the circle when A is a minium?

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Question 503872: A triangle has interior angles that measure 70 degrees and 40 degrees. What is the measure of the third interior angle?
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Question 503921: What is the formula for the area of a square and circle?
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Question 504107: The perimeter of a triangle is 93 centimeters. If two sides are equally long and the third side is 9 centimeters longer than the others, find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 504250: An angle is 12 degrees less than one half of its supplement. Find the supplement.
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Question 504433: The combined area of a square and a rectangle is 116 square centimeters. The width of the rectangle is 2 centimeters more than the length of a side of the square, and the length of the rectangle is 2 centimeters more than its width.Find the dimensions of the square and the rectangle?
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Question 505284: The area of the square above is 114 cm2. What is the length of a side of the square?
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Question 505525: A water sprinkler sprays water over a distance of 30 feet while rotating through an angle of 135 degrees. What area of the lawn recieves water?
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Question 505889: Darius invested 85% of his savings in the stock market. If he invested $8330, what was his total savings?
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Question 505926: A 21 foot board has been cut into two parts, one tiwice as long as teh other. how long is each part?
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