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Question 539147: A rectangle measures 18m by 24m. What is the sum of the lengths of its diagonals?
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Question 539290: what day of the week is 263 days from monday?
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Question 539290: what day of the week is 263 days from monday?
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Question 539432: which statement has a true converse?
a. if a vehicle is a car, then it has four wheels/
b. if you go to Asia from the united states, then you cross an ocean.
c.if you own a dog, then your pet is furry.
d. if you can stand up, then you can walk.
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Question 539441: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is four times then length of one of the legs. The length of the other leg is square root 735 feet. Find the length of the leg and hypotenuse.
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Question 539535: A farmer needs to buy fencing to go around his graden . the garden is a 20 by 15 rectangle how much fencing will he need
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Question 539818: With a head wind, a plane traveled 1200 miles in 4 hours. With the same wind as a tail wind, the return trip took 3 hours. Find the plane's air speed and the wind speed.
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Question 539817: A grain-storage warehouse has a total of 24 bins. Some hold 30 tons of grain each, and the rest hold 25 tons each. How many of each type of bin are there if the capacity of the warehouse is 640 tons?
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Question 540339: Pythagorean Theorem fun..You are in the crow's nest of a ship that is 40ft. above the water. Determine the farthest distance from which you could spot the top of a 50 ft tree on a sea level island. Earth's radius is 3963 ft. A mile is 5280 ft. I've drawn the mast with the crows nest and labeled it 40 ft. Ive drawn a tree and labeled it 50 ft. I don't see where I'm supposed to get the triangle to figure the Pythagorean Theorem. I know the Earth is curved, but how do I figure that in to this problem?
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Question 540464: A right circular cylindrical vessel is exactly one-quarter full. If 7 liters of liquid are added, the vessel will be exactly three-fifths full. What is the total capacity of the vessel, in liters?
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Question 540495: This was my innitial problem;
"The are of a rectangle is 165 ft^2. The Length is 4 ft greater than the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle."
This my question;
After you simplify the word problem into a Quadratic Equation (the process below)..
W*L=165, L=W+4
W(W+4)=165
W^2+4W-165=0
How do you find this next part;
(W-11)(W+15)=0
W-11=0
How did the tutor figure 11 and 15? Is it because of the factoring? Perfect squares? Please help.

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Question 540694: What is the area of a rectangular room that is 10 feet by 12 feet
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Question 540823: What is the length of the side of a square if its area in square cm is equal to twice its perimeter in cm
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Question 541013: a field is 210 meters by 330 meters.a barn with floor dimensions of 29 meters by 45 meters is built in the field how much area is left over?
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Question 541043: Find the length of a rectangular lot with a perimeter of 118m if the length is 5m more than the width.
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Question 541129: TTHE RECTANGULAR BORDER AROUND THE COURT IS 2 FOOT WIDE. THEY GIVE YOU THE HEIGHT IS 84FT AND THE WIDTH IS 50FT. WHAT IS THE TOTAL AREA?
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Question 541146: a ballon initally has a radius of 4cm. more air is blown into the ballon until it has a radius of 9cm. How has the surface area and volume of the ballon changed?
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Question 541160: from a square sheet of cardboard 40 cm by 40 cm, square corners are cut out so the sides can be folded up to make a box. what dimensions will yield a box of max. volume?
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Question 541184: What is the area of the largest triangle that can be drawn in a semicircle of r=9?
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Question 541356: The length of a rectangle is 3 meters shorter than 3 times its width. Find the length and width if the perimeter is 210 meters. Please help
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Question 541420: Take a rectangle and increase the length by 10% and decrease the width by 10%. How does the area of the new rectangle compare to the area of the original rectangle?

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Question 541422: a hollow tennis balls has radius of 4.2cm the tennis ball skin is 0.3cm think how much air is contained inside the tennis ball?
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Question 541455: In triangle ABC, the measure of angle B is 21 degrees less than the measure of angle A multiplied by 4. The measure of angle C is 1 degree more then the measure of angle A multiplied by 5. Determine the measure of each interior angle and each exterior angle of triangle ABC.
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Question 541610: Can you please help me on the following problem.
It is 3 pm on a sunny day. Your task is to find the height of the flag pole. You have only a meter stick.
Thank You.
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Question 541707: Two cylindrical flower pots need to be painted. The flower pots are 1.5 ft in diameter and 2.5 ft high. A one litre can of paint covers 100 ft2. Will one can be enough to paint the two flower pots with two coats of paint?

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Question 541705: A packaging company is manufacturing cardboard boxes without a lid that measure 3" long, 1" wide and 1" high.
They will be cut by using a geometric net where each side of the base is simply folded down flat (Like a cross).
The boxes will be cut from sheets of cardboard that measure 1 yard by 1 yard. How many boxes can be cut from each sheet?

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Question 541985: A rectangular box has dimensions of length = 6, width = 4 and height = 5. The angle formed by a diagonal of the box with the base of the box is?

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Question 542362: Suppose the length of one rectangular field is 400 meters more than the side of a square field. The width of the rectangular field is 100 meters more than the side of the square field. If the rectangular field has twice the area of the square field, what are the dimensions of each field?
I came up with 2A^2=(A+400)(A+100)
A being equal to the side of the square, 2A^2 being equal to the squares area
I'm not sure where to go from there because when I foiled it out to:
2A^2=A^2+500A+40,000 I am not sure how to solve for A or if that is even the correct variable.
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Question 542388: the longest side of triangle is twice as long the shortest side and 2cm lnger than the third side.if the perimeter of the triangle is 33cm,what is the length of each side?
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Question 542539: If the dimensions of the following cylinder are tripled, what will be the volume of the new cylinder? dimensions are 12 and 15
Options:
15,260.4 cm3
45,781.2 cm3
61,041.6 cm3
183,124.8 cm3
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Question 541706: Laurence is painting the walls and ceiling of a rectangular bedroom that is 3 m by 4.5 m. The walls are 2.5 m high.
There is a window measuring 1 m by 0.8 m on one wall and a door that is 1 m by 2.3 m in another wall.
If a can of paint covers 20 m2 and costs $38.95, what will it cost Laurence for paint for this bedroom?

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Question 542837: It costs the johnsons $216 to have a 9 ft by 12 ft wooden floor refinished. At that rate,how muchwould it cost them to have a 12 ft by 16 ft wooden floor refinished?
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Question 543608: The perimeter of a rectangle is 36. The ratio of the lengths of the sides is 2:7. What are the lengths of the sides?
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Question 543632: if the surface area of a cube is 162units squared, what is the volume?
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Question 543599: a rectangle has the length that is two thirds its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 40 meters, what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 543682: A yard is 9 meters long and 8 meters wide, how many of meters of fencing would be needed to fence in the entire yard?
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Question 544041: Please help me solve this equation: The dimension of a room is 16ft by 20ft, what is the area of the entire room
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Question 544073: he diagonal of a rectangular storage room is 8 yards long. if its length is 2 times its width, find the dimensions of the room
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Question 544078: how to find the angle in a quadrilateral that has 4 angles with the numbers 85, 69, (6x+22), and (x+37) please help 6th grader
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Question 544152: the length of a rectangle is six times its width. if the perimiter of the rectangle is 70in, find its area? thanks for your help

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Question 544300: A rectangular flower garden in a park is 30 feet wide and 40 feet long. A sidewalk around the perimeter of the garden is being planned. The gardener has enough money to pour 624 feet of cement sidewalk. Find the width of the sidewalk.
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Question 544358: if you have a 3 cup container and a 5 cup container ,how can you measure exactly 1 cup?
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Question 544358: if you have a 3 cup container and a 5 cup container ,how can you measure exactly 1 cup?
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Question 544405: If a square has an area of a 100 and theres a circle inside of it, how is the circle's area 80
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Question 544432: The perimeter of a rectangular concrete slab is 92 feet and its area is 465 square feet. What is the length of the longer side of the slab?
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