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Question 544604: if the length of a rectangle is 5 ft more than twice its width and the area is 42 ft^2?
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Question 544125: if
what is the sum of the values of x?
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Question 544782: is the height .5 less than the bass on a rectangle

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Question 544886: find the area of the rectangle (3y+1) miles 21 miles
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Question 544917: A garden has a perimeter of 600 yards. if the lenght of the garden is 250 yards, what is the garden's width?
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Question 544918: A house is 25 feet tall and a ladder is set up 35 feet away from the side of the house. Approximately how long is the ladder from the ground to the roof of the house?
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Question 544920: Enrique weighs 5 pounds more than twice Brendan's weight. If their total weigh is 225 pounds, how much does Enrique weigh?
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Question 544944: A soda company is testing a new sized can to put on the market. The new can is 6 inches in diameter and 12 inches in height. What is the volume of the can in cubic inches?
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Question 544967: A farmer has purchased a new plot of rectangular land for planting the family crop. The length of his new plot is 4 times long as it is wide. He was told that the area of the land was 192 square meters. Help the farmer out by finding the length and width of his land and how many meters of ending he will need to enclose the new plot.
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Question 545532: The perimeter of a rectangle is 240 feet. Express the area of the rectangle in terms of its width.
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Question 545824: a man is planning to fence the front part of his property with posts 2m apart. Short of money he decides to make the posts 3 m apart and uses 3 posts less. how wide is the property?
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Question 546028: martin made the generalization,"Quadrilaterals can have four acute angles."Is he correct?
explain
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Question 546143: A trampoline has diameter of 10 feet what is it area
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Question 546104: A rectangle has three sides:5in,10in and 2 in.What is its volume?
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Question 546343: A triangular lot has sides of 200 meters, 180 meters, and 120 meters. Find the measure of the largest angle. I tried solving this problem by using the Law of Cosine- a^2=b^2+c^2-2(b)(c)cosA : 200^2=180^2+120^2-2(180)(120)cosA: 40,000=32,400+14,400-43,200cosA: 40,000=46,800-43,200cosA: 40,000-46,800=-43,200cosA: -6800=-43,200cosA: -6800/-43,200=cosA: 17/108=cosA That's all I could do. I don' know how to find the cosine of a letter.
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Question 3657: What will it cost to carpet a room with indoor/outdoor carpet if the room is 10 feet wide and 12 feet long? The carpet cost 12.51 per square yard.
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Question 546385: The new kitchen is to be 20 ft long and its width is 75%.The door to enter the kitchen is on the short wall and is 10% of the width of that wall.You want to put in marble countertops but don't want them to take up more than 1/20 of the space in your kitchen(space is ft2)what is the largest area the counters can take up?
If your counters take up that much space and are 2 ft wide,how long are they?

You also want to tile your kitchen floor. If each tile is square and is 6in long,then how many tiles do you need for the whole floor?(Disreguard allowance for grout,but dont forget the space the counters take up.)
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Question 546434: Find possible dimensions for a closed box with volume of 196 cubic centimeters, surface area of 280 square inches, and length that is twice the width.
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Question 546479: In a triangle, the middle angle is 45 degrees and the largest angle is 15 degrees more than twice the smallest angle. Find the smallest and largest angles.
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Question 546490: Anita's gross monthly income is $6,500. If 16% is withheld for income tax, 6.5% for social security, and 2.5% for health insurance, what is her net monthly income?
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Question 546549: How much more pizza is comtained in a pizza with a radius 12in than in one with 9in
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Question 546901: The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4:5:6
What is the degree measure of the three angles of this triangle?
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Question 546950: the area of a triangle is 672 square yards its base is 42 yards find the height
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Question 547046: The area of a square is 36 square units. Find the SUM of the diagonals.
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Question 547213: What is the slope of a binomial 2x+3
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Question 547230: Good morning and thank you for your help my question is " A farmer has 120 feet of fencing.He wants to put a fence around a rectangular field next to a building find the maximum area he can enclose, and the dimensions of the field when the area is maximized." how do I solve this problem?
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Question 547306: A water sprinkler sprays water at a distance of 30 feet. It rotates through a 120 degree angle. What area of the lawn receives water?
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Question 547371: I have a circle 12 feet in circumference. What is the radius?
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Question 547501: You have 24 feet of fence to make a rectangular garden. Each side must measure a whole number of feet.
How many different sized rectangular gardens can you make? Show your work by using pictures and or number.

Explain using math vocabulary how you solved the problem.
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Question 547770: the problem says find the missing side of each triangle. Side c is the hypotenuse. Side a and b are the legs. Round your answer to the nearest tenth if necessary. so if b=12 mi, and c is 13 mi what would a equal?
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Question 547958: solve for x find the dimensions of the polygon. if it is a square and the perimeter is 24 units and the side is x-2 what does x =
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Question 548097: you live 3 miles from school and your car tire has a diameter of 30 inches. approximately how many revolutions will your tire make from your house to school? (1 mile is equal to 5280 feet and 1 foot is equal to 12 inches)
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Question 547933: Please help me solve this problem.
The sum of the measures of the complement and supplement of an angle is 214 to the 0 power. Find the measure of the angle.
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Question 548201: A boat moving 12 miles per hour north is being blown off course by a 9-mile per hour wind blowing west. At what angle is the boat being moved off course?
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Question 548233: A triangle has one angle that measures 74�. The second angle is half the measure of the first angle. What is the measure of the third angle?
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Question 548262: I know P = 2L + 2W. What formula should I use to solve this problem? The width of a rectangular table is 1 ft. less than half the length. If the perimeter is 28 ft., then what are the length and width? I know the answer is L = 10 and W = 4, I'm not sure how to step it up to show how I got the answers.
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Question 548355: find the area of the garden that measures 3 feet by 3/4 feet

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Question 547553: the number of inches in the perimeter of a square is 3 more than the number of square inches in its area. find the length of a side.
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Question 548378: A picture of a sunset has a square frame that is 2 inches wide. The area of the picture is one-third of the total area of the picture and frame. What are the dimensions of the picture to the nearest quarter of an inch? please show me the steps
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Question 548549: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 16 in. longer
than the shortest side and 2 in. longer than the remaining side. Find the dimensions of this triangle. What is the length of the shortest side (in inches)?

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Question 548595: Find the area of rectangular park of 25metre length and 50m breadth.
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Question 548597: A sphere is inscribed in a regular tetrahedron. If the length of an altitude of the tetrahedron is 36, what is length of a radius of the sphere
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Question 548532: an isosceles triangle is inscribed in the cirle x2+y2-6x-8x=0 with vertex at the origin and one of the equal side along the axis of x.equation of the other side through the origin is
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