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Question 563898:
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Question 563899: If a restaurant is 43 yards wide and 112 yards long how many square feet is it?

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Question 564028: The distance around a tennis court is 330 feet. If the length of the court is 9 feet more than twice the width, find the dimensions of the tennis court.
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Question 564126: use of this rato: you make a wagon wheel that has a diameter of 3 feet. how many turns of the wheel will it take to have you go the distance of one mile (5280)? if your wheel makes one rotation every second, then what is the velocity in miles per hour for your wagon?
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Question 564251: a rectangle is 6m wide and 11m long. how long is the diagonal of the rectangle?
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Question 564625: a rope is needed at the top of the 24-ft flagpole to connect it to a peg that is 20feet from the base of the flagpole. what is the length of the rope?

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Question 564719: The John Hancock Center in Chicago has a rectangular base. The length of the base measures 65 feet less than twice the width. The perimeter of this base is 860 feet. What are the dimensions of the base?
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Question 564768: Lee has a rectangular plot to use for a flower garden. She plans to include a gravel
border of uniform width around the flower garden so visitors can walk completely around
the flowers to view them more easily. The total size of the garden and gravel border is to
be 15 feet by 21 feet. If Lee has enough gravel to cover 117 square feet for the border,
how wide will the gravel border be? What will the dimensions of the actual flower garden
be? Round answers to nearest tenth.
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Question 564884: How many square feet is a 20 ft. by 30 ft. rectangle?

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Question 564823: the measure of one of the angles of a triangle is 35. The sum of the measures of the other two angles is 145 and the difference between their measures is 15. What are the measures of the unknown angles?
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Question 565004: What is the radius of a circle if the circumference is 108cm?
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Question 565095: is 3 inches long the same as 2 3/4 inches long?
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Question 565119: A rectangular picture 24 inches by 32 inches is surrounded by a border of uniform width. If the area of the border is 528 square inches less than the area of the picture, find the width of the border?
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Question 565286:
Given the proportion a/b=8/15, what ratio completes the equivalent proportion a/8=?
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Question 565296: I f Allison has a rectangular block of wax that measures 12 centimeters by 10 centimeters by 20 centimeters, about how many candles can she make after melting the block of wax?

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Question 565311: The length of the edge of the square is twice as long as the radius of the circle. Find the ratio of the area of the circle to the area of the square. Write the answer in simplified form.
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Question 565334: the length of a rectangle is 4 cm greater than its width. If the length and the width were increased by 3 cm, the area of the rectangle would be in creased by 93 cm. What are the dimensions fo the original rectangle?
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Question 565521: A radio costs $88 and a set of headphones costs $24. What is the total price for purchasing these items if the sales tax rate is 9.5%?
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Question 565654: how many square foot is 20 ft by 30 ft rectangle?
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Question 565561: an above-ground swimming pool is in the shape of a regular hexagonal prism. the pool is 3 meters high and holds 66 cubic meters of water. another pool has a base with the same shape and size, but is 5 meters high. how much water will this pool hold? explain
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Question 565866: Mr. Diaz measured the length of the garden. It measured 9 meters long. How many centimeters long was the garden?
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Question 565950: what is the perimeter of a square that measures 10 inches by 11 inches
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Question 566016: the area of a rectangular vegetable plot is 15 square metres.if the width is 1 metre,what is its lenght?

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Question 566002: The ratio of the length and breadth of a rectangular farm is 2:1 . If its area is 450 m^2, find its length.
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Question 566066: What is the formula to find the AREA between TWO Rectangles?
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Question 566090: A polygon has five interior angles. It has two angles measuring 160� each, two angles measuring 75� each, and one angle measuring 70�. What kind of polygon is this?
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Question 566135: I have a word problem on a sheet that I don't really understand. I would really love to know the steps to solving it since there are more of them. I've tried the pythagorean theorem, but I don't think I'm doing it right. I would greatly appreciate any help I receive.
In a square, the length of a side is 6 cm less than a diagonal. How long is each diagonal?
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Question 566203: the perimeter of a rectangle is 44 inches.Find the dimension if the width is two inches longer than three times the length.Then find the area of the rectangle
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Question 566272: A rectangular field is 30 feet wide and 50 feet long. Fence post are to be placed every 10 feet around the field. How many posts are needed?

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Question 566544: a circle whose diameter has endpoints (-3,0) and (3,0)
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Question 566592: a square garden has perimeter 96m find its side
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Question 566801: if the perimetare of a rectangle is 30 then whats the area

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Question 566833: Why does cos(85 degrees)+cos(95 degrees)= 0?
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Question 566959: The length of a triangle is 4 m more than twice the length of the base. The area of the triangle is 35 m^2. Find the height of the triangle.
This is what I've done:
A=1/2*b*h
35= (1/2)*(2b)*(2b+4)
Is that the right equation? How do I solve this?
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Question 566994: The page of a book measures 6in by 9in. A uniform border around the page leaves 28in^2 for type. What are the dimensions of the type area?
I have no idea where to begin with this. How do I solve this?
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Question 273868: Two poles, 30 feet and 50 feet tall, are 40 feet apart and perpendicular to the ground. The poles are supported by wires attached from the top of each pole to the bottom of the other, as in the figure. A coupling is placed at C where the tow wires cross.
Find x, the distance from C to the taller pole?
How high above the ground is the coupling?
How far down the wire from the smaller pole is the coupling?

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Question 567303: the length of a rectangle is 6cm and the width 3 cm. if both are increased by the same amount the area is increased by 70 cm^2 find the length and width of the larger rectangle?
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Question 567096: suppose the ratio of the volumes of two balls is 8 to 1. What is the ratio of their radii?
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Question 567601: Solve
1/(1-x) = 3/(1+x)

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Question 567609: The surface areas of two similar cylinders are 6ft2 and 54ft2. The volume of the smaller cylinder is 2ft3. What is the volume in cubic feet of the larger cylinder?

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Question 567625: A scuba diver has a taut rope connecting the dive boat to an anchor on the ocean floor. The rope is 110 ft long. The water is 55 ft deep. To the nearest tenth of a foot, how far is the anchor from a point directly below the boat?
--Basically, I need to know where each length goes. I used 55 as the height of the right triangle and 110 as the base. Is this correct?
Thank you.
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Question 567760: using proportional relationships. the scale is 1.5in:60ft
find the length of segment AB.segment AB equals .5in.
how do i solve for this because i guessed that 1in was half of 60 (30ft) & .5in might be half of 30 (15ft)? was i correct?
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Question 567860: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet less than twice the width of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 84 feet, find the width and the length.
Width = _____ft
Length=______ft.
x+x+x+x=84
L=2w-3 is what i have come up with but i am not sure where to go from there.
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