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Question 554731: find the area of a circle with a radius of 4 1/2 inches. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 554784: the bases of an Isoceles Trapazoid are 7 & 15, Find the Altitude
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Question 554998: One side of a rectangular patio is 6 feet longer than the other. If the area of the patio is 91 square feet, what are the dimensions of the patio?
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Question 555143: the measure of an angle is 12 degrees less than twice the measure of its suppliment. what is the measure of this angle?
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Question 555185: a famer used a 'click wheel' to measure the size of a field on his farm. He found that his field was 200m long and 150m wide. What is the area of the field in Square metres?
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Question 555349: 1<3x+2<12... i have no clue how to solve this, someone help pleasee!
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Question 555619: i have a wall 11ft x 8ft.how much wall paper will i need to cover this wall.need in answer to be in M2.

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Question 555737: what is the width of a rectangle with an area of 300 square feet if its length is 1 foot,? if its length is 2 feet? if its length is 3 feet?
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Question 555862: I could not get the answer for this since it is about circumference and areas of a circle. Okay this is the question,C= 14.8 km. Please HELP!

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Question 555599: A cylinder has the diameter equal to the heigh. It's volume is 360cm. What is it's height?
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Question 556164: a plane flew a triangular route for a total distance of 149 miles. if the longest leg of the flight is twice the length of the shortest leg and the third leg is one mile less than the longest leg, then ehat is the lenght of the longest leg?
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Question 556786: The angle theta is formed by the positive x axis and a ray through the point (5, -12). Find the value of sin(theta), cos(theta), and tan(theta)
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Question 556807: 1.The smith's want to install a rectangular swimming pool. It cost $5.00 a square foot for concrete. If the pool is 70 feet across, 25 feet wide and 15 feet deep, what is the total cost to concrete the pool?

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Question 556809: A 3FT WIDE WALKWAY IS PLACED AROUND AN ANIMALS EXHIBIT AT THE ZOO. THE EXHIBIT IS RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE AND HAS LENGTH 15FT AND WIDTH 8 FT. WHAT IS THE AREA IN SQUARE FEET OF THE WALKWAY AROUND THE EXHIBIT.
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Question 556813: an athletic field is a rectangle, 120 yd by 60 yd. with a semicircle at each of the ends. a running track 15yd wide surrounds the field. how many yards of fencing do you need to surround the outside edge of the track? round your answer to the nearest tenth of a yard. use 3.14 for PI
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Question 556808: WHAT IS THE CIRCUMCENTER OF TRIANGLE ABC WITH VERTICES A(-7,0), B(-3,8), AND C(-3,0)?
A. (-7,-3)
B. (-5,4)
C. (-4,3)
d. (-3,4)
THANK YOU

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Question 556812: ANGLE ABE AND ANGLE CBD ARE VERTICAL ANGLES AND BOTH ARE COMPLEMENTARY WITH ANGLE FGH, IF m ANGLE ABE = (3x-1) AND m ANGLE FGH = (4x), what is m ANGLE CBD?
THIS IS THE CORRECT QUESTION..MESSED UP THE ONE BEFORE THIS
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Question 556852: how would u solve this a round table is 5 ft in diameter. how much wood was cut away from the circular top
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Question 556934: The area of the rectangle is 6675 in2, find the value of x. width=x length=89
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Question 557043: Can I please get help with this Venn Diagram?
A survey of fruit tree growers showed the following:

47 grew raspberries 18 grew both raspberries and blueberries
31 grew blueberries 7 grew both raspberries and strawberries
15 grew strawberries 9 grew both blueberries and strawberries
6 grew all three types 15 grew none of these three

Create a Venn diagram to reflect the above data, label your diagram clearly. Use your diagram to answer the following questions here.

(a) How many grew only strawberries?
(b) How many grew both blueberries and strawberries, but not raspberries?
(c) How many grew only blueberries?
(d) How many grew none of these three or only raspberries?
(e) How many fruit tree growers were surveyed?
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Question 557298: Driving through the mountains, Dale has to go up and over a high mountain pass. The road has a constant incline for 7.75 miles to the top of the pass. Dale notices from a road sign that in the first mile he climbs 840 feet. What is the height of the mountain pass?
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Question 557251: One wall of a room is 8 feet by 10 feet, and a rectangular door 3 feet by 7 feet is to be cut in the wall. The remainder of the wall is to be wallpapered. There are three other walls in the room that are 8 feet by 10 feet and these are also to be wallpapered. What is the total area that is to be wallpapered?
Thank you
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Question 557322: three times the complement of an angle less the suppliment of an angle is 10 decrees. find the suppliment
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Question 557650: a square green rug has a yellow square in the center. The side length of the yellow square is x inches and the width of the green region is 5 in. What is the area of the green part of the rug?
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Question 557669: A giant California redwood 36 meters tall cracked in a violent storm and fell as if hinged. The tip of the once beautiful tree hit the ground 24 meters from the base. Researcher Red Woods wishes to investigate the crack. How many meters from the base of the tree does he have to climb?
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Question 557735: A ladder is resting against a wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at the height of 15 feet. Find the length of the ladder if the length of the ladder if the length is 5 feet more than its distance from the wall.

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Question 557176: There are 540 students at Sunny Acres Middle School.
432 students ride the bus to school.
What percentage of the students do not ride the bus?

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Question 557372: Rachelle cuts off 3 cm from each side of a square. She finds that 1.12 m of ribbon is just enough to go around the new square. Find the side of the original square.
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Question 557979: How do you make a word problem for....The radious of the tabletop equaling 20, pi(3.14), and the area of the table top?
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Question 558012: The area of a square with side length of 11inches

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Question 558077:
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Question 558119: I don't understand this question please help me:
An adult horse is about 66 inches tall. The giant table's top is about 3 1/2 times that height. About how high is the tabletop in feet and inches?
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Question 558216: An angle is 5 degrees less than twice another angle. Find the measures if they are supplementary angles.
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Question 558219: Turn these equations into word problems.
36 divided by h = 9
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Question 558202: your desk is 80 centimeters wide how many inches wide is your desk?
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Question 558202: your desk is 80 centimeters wide how many inches wide is your desk?
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Question 558296: A rectangular garden has length which is 3 ft. more than 2 times its width. Using the letter 'W' for the width of the garden, find an expression for the area of the garden.

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Question 558308: Find the length of the chord of the ellipse {(x^2)/(a^2)}+{(y^2)/(b^2)}=1 directed along the diagonal of the rectangle constructed on the axes of the ellipse?

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Question 558307: Find the length of the chord of the ellipse {(x^2)/(a^2)}+{(y^2)/(b^2)}=1 directed along the diagonal of the rectangle constructed on the axes of the ellipse?

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Question 558612: Plot each point on a coordinate plane. Then identify the quadrant that contains each point. W(1,5)
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Question 559072: if you have 36 ft of fencing,what are the areas of different rectangles you could enclose with the fencing?
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Question 559290: if the perimeter of a rectangular lawn is 116 m and the width is 6 m less than the length, then what are the lengths and width?
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Question 559274: the diameter of a circular table is 6 feet. what is the length of the radius?

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Question 559509: Brooke wanted to measure the height of the tree in her backyard. Brooke placed the mirror on the ground 32 ft. away from the tree and then walked backwards until she was able to see the top of the tree in the mirror. Her eyes are 5 ft. above the ground and she is 8 ft. from the mirror. Using similar triangles, find the height of the tree.
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