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Question 524667: Find the equation of the line given the two points
(2,0) (0,-3)
Give each answer in y= mx+b form.
Hi I am having a lot of trouble solving these problems. Can you please explain how to solve the problem step by step?
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Question 524682: 1) the diagonal of a square is 17m, what is the side length?
2) the perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 27 inches. What is the area?
3)a tree is 15 ft tall casts a shadow which forms an angle of 34 digrees with the ground. how long is the shadow to the nearest tenth?
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Question 524967: if the area of rectangle is 126 square inches and the length is 14 inches then what is the width of the rectangle

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Question 525026: IF A RECTANGULAR GARDEN HAS SIDES THAT ARE 12 FT. AND 14FT.LONG, WHAT IS THE PERIMETER AND AREA OF THE GARDEN?
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Question 525360: what will it cost to to carpet a rectangular floor measuring 15 feet by 21 feet if the carpet costs 20.97 per square yard

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Question 525360: what will it cost to to carpet a rectangular floor measuring 15 feet by 21 feet if the carpet costs 20.97 per square yard

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Question 525358: The length of a rectangle is 3m longer than its width.
If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34m , find its area.

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Question 525374: the length of the fence required to enclose a rectangular field is 3000 meters. What are the dimensions of the field if it is known that the difference between it's length and width is 50 meters
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Question 525228: A school playground is in the shape of a rectangle 500 ft. long and 100 ft. wide. If fencing cost $12 per yard, what will it cost to place fencing around the playground

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Question 525697: Which is a better buy? An 8 inch by 8inch square pizza for $10 or a 9inch round pizza for $10.

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Question 525800: The area of the a square is 9 cm squared, what is the side length of the square?

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Question 525814: The length of an equilateral hexagon is 4 inches less than the the length of a side of a square. The perimeter of the hexagon is equal to the perimeter of the square. Find the length of a side of the hexagon and the length of a side of the square.
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Question 525950: The measures of the lengths of three sides of a triangle are prime numbers. If two of the sides are 5 and 23, what is a possible value of the length of the third side?
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Question 526077: If the area of a trapezoid is 32 and base 1 is x + 6 and base 2 is x+2 and the height = x, how can i solve for x?
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Question 526142: Rene is building a rectangular window frame that is feet long and feet wide. What is the perimeter of the window frame?

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Question 526191: FIND the length of the diagonal of a rectangle whose sides are 15cm and 8cm.
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Question 526205: one leg of a triangle is 14ft longer than the other leg. The legnth of the hypotenuse is 26ft. Find the lengths of the other 2 sides.
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Question 526367: solve 5(x+2)=60 show all of your step wrtie a reason for each step
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Question 526345: An open box with a square base stands 6 inches tall. The total surface area of the outside of the box is 640 square inches. What are the dimensions of the base?
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Question 526464: the length of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio 3:4:5. find the area of the triangle if its perimeter is 144cm
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Question 526602: The volume of a cube is 64 ft. How many feet are on each side?
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Question 526642: In a rancher's pentagonal plot of land, when interior angles are put in decreasing
Order, each differs from the next by 10 degrees. Find the measure of the smallest interior
Angle of the field to the nearest tenth of a degree. The multiple choice is...
A: 88.0
B: 86.5
C: 128.0
D: 108.0
Please explain your answer!! Thank u:)
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Question 526726: The length of a rectangle is 8 in. more than its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 24 in. What are the width and length of the rectangle?
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Question 526794: The diameter of the outer circle of a flower garden is twice the
diameter of the inner circle. The lengths of
the walkways are each a = 5 feet long.
What is the diameter of the inner circle?
Answer in units of ft
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Question 526987: a rectangle has a width that is three times longer than its length. find the measure of the angle formed between a drawn diagonal and the shorter side of the rectangle
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Question 527024: is it possible for a triangle to have sides with the lengths of 5 ft, 6 ft, 12 ft? What about 3.5 cm, 4.5 cm, 7 cm?
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Question 527025: Area is to square inches As volume is to
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Question 527449: Help, I've been informed and I can't bcoeme ignorant.
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Question 527641: a 12 sided die is rolled the set of equally likely out comes is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12, Find the probability a 12
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Question 527746: Hey I was having trouble with this word problem please help.( The width of a rectangle is 6 kilometers less than twice it's length. If the area is 108 square kilometers, find the dimensions of the rectangle. )How would I set this problem up?
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Question 527772: The three sides of a right-angled triangle are proportional to the numbers 3, 4, and 5. Find the length of each side knowing that the area of the triangle is 24m squared.
Work so far:
1/2bh=A
1/2(3x)(4x)=24m squared
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Question 528465: I have a rectangle whose length is 3x the width. If the length and width are both decrease by 2cm the area of the rectangle is decreased by 36cm^2. I think the formula is 3x^2-8x+4. I need to know the beginning area?
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Question 528501: in radical form what is the length of a diagonal of a sqaure if the perimeter is 20
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Question 528510: How do you find the perimeter of a rectangle that is 9 feet long and 4 feet wide.
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Question 528751: the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is 6m more than twice the shortest side. If the third side is 2m less than the hypotenuse, find the sides of the triangle.
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Question 528560: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is equal to the perimeter of a triangle that has one side equal to the length of the rectangle. The sum of the other 2 sides of the triangle equals 85. What is the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 528697: what is the possible dimensions of a rectangular box if the dimensions are three consecutive numbers and the volume is 60 cm cube
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Question 529060: If two planes leave an airport at the same time with one flying west at 330 miles per hour and the other flying east at 530 miles per hour, how long will it take them to be 2580 miles apart?
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Question 529739: The area of a triangle is 20 square cm. The height is an odd prime number and is shorter than the base. Find the dimensions.
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Question 529747: A leather coin purse has the shape of a triangle. Two sdes are equal in length and the third side is 3 centimeters shorter than one and one-half times the length of the equal sides. The perimeter is 28.5 centimeters. find the lengths of the sides.
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Question 529698: Two anglesare complementary, and one is twice as large as the other one.cWhat is the measure of each angle?
let x= one angle let y= one angle
Would my equations be:
x+y=90
2x=y
I am not getting a correct answer, and my I believe the problem is my equations.
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Question 529951: a square flowerbed is 6 feet along each edge and the square sidewalk around it is 2 feet wide. find the area of the sidewalk (The shaded region) in square feet.
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Question 529829: the perimeter of a rectangle is 82 m. if the width were doubled and the length were increased by 18 m, the perimeter would be 150 m. what are the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 529807: A banner in the shape of an isosceles triangle has a base that is 3 inches shorter than either of the equal sides. If the perimeter of the banner is 48 inches, then what is the length of the equal sides?
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