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Question 580508: Suppose a wire is stretched tightly around the Earth. (The radius of the Earth is approx. 6,400 km.) If the wire is cut, its circumference is increased by 20 meters, and the wire is placed back around the Earth so that the wire is the same distance from the Earth at every point, could you walk under the wire?
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Question 580582: A bijection is always has an inverse or not?
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Question 580633: A penny is dropped from the top of a 900m tower. How long does it take to hit the ground?
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Question 580666: what is the length of the radius of a circle tha has a diameter of 146 centimeters

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Question 580621: A penny is dropped from the top of a 900 m tower how long does it take to hit the ground

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Question 580636: If a force of 100N on an object causes an acceleration of 10m/s2 what is the objects mass?
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Question 580636: If a force of 100N on an object causes an acceleration of 10m/s2 what is the objects mass?
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Question 581160: ok how do i find the length, width, and height if i already know the surface area?
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Question 581127: A farmer wants to set aside a rectangular plot of land to contain 560 square meters. If the width is 5 more than the length, find the dimensions of the plot
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Question 581345: if M is the midpoint of PQ, find the value of x
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Question 581366: 1) A circular flower garden has a diameter of 10 feet. One cubic yard of concrete is to be used to create a circular border of uniform width around the garden. The border is to have a depth of 3 inches. How wid will the border be?
2) An open box is to be made from a rectangular piece of tin whose length is twice its width. The box will be made by cutting a square of side 1 foot from each corner and folding up the edges. If the box needs to hold 4 cubic feet, what are the dimensions of the piece of tin?
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Question 581543: A rectangle is constructed. The length of this rectangle is double the width. Then a new rectangle is made by increasing each side by 3 meters. The perimeter of the new rectangle is 2 meters greater than four tiimes the length of the old rectangle. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
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Question 581731: The area of a circle is 147 ft squared. Find the radius to the nearest tenth.
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Question 581603:
A triangular prism has a volume of 5 m3. If each dimension of the prism is tripled, what is the new volume of the prism?

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Question 581807: please show me how to solve this problem: the perimeter of a rectangle is 50m. if the width were doubled and the length were increased by 25m, the perimeter would be 112m. what are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 582525: I am having a difficult time with a word problem, could you please help me how to solve it?
A factory needs a box that has a volume of 6 cubic feet. The width should be 1 inch less than the height and the length should be 3 inches greater than the height. Approximate what the dimensions of the box should be?
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Question 582370: I have bee trying to figure this problem out for hours. Please help.
From 2005 to 2007, enrollment at a university decreased by 2%. If enrollment in 2007 was 8771 students, what was the enrollment in 2005?
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Question 582987: what is the capital of the United States of America,and how big is the Capital of the United States of America?
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Question 582987: what is the capital of the United States of America,and how big is the Capital of the United States of America?
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Question 583147: find the area of a square witch is 29 ft on one side
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Question 583185: the perimiter of a rectangle is 50 yards.the length is three more than the width.what is the length?
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Question 583364: 10 questions with answers

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Question 583352: 10 questions in geometry

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Question 583348: It has to be 2 feet high, and the width is to be 3 feet less than its length. If it needs to hold a volume of 80 cubic feet, find the length and width of the box
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Question 583563: The perimeter of a pentagon is 315inches. The five sides are represented by consecutive integers. find the measures of the five sides.
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Question 583696: please help me solve the problem of: in a triangle, the second angle is 5 more than twice the first angle. the third angle is 35 less than 3 times the first angle. find the number of degrees in each angle of the triangle.
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Question 583703: please help me solve the word problem: the perimenter of a rectangle os 110 feet. if the length is 5 feet less than twice the width find thew dimensions of the rectangular garden
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Question 583744: volume of box is 24 cubic feet. height is 2 feet and width is 4 feet. what is the length of the box?
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Question 583744: volume of box is 24 cubic feet. height is 2 feet and width is 4 feet. what is the length of the box?
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Question 583767: GRADE 6 Math homework :/
A right triangle has a perimeter of 72cm and a area of 216cm2. What are the lengths of its three sides?
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Question 583954: find the volume of a sphere with a diameter of 15ft. Give your answer in terms of pi.
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Question 584262: The longer leg of a 30 -60 -90 triangle is 18. What is the length of the longer leg?
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Question 584463: if the diameter of a circle is doubled, is its corresponding circumference doubled?

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Question 584787: The area of a square deck is 38 ft squared. Approximately how long is one side length of the deck?
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Question 584877: For a convex 40-gon, what is the sum of the measures of the interior angles?
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Question 584797: A 1.4-meter tall child is standing next to a flagpole. The child's shadow is 1.2 meters long. At the same time, the shadow of the flagpole is 7.5 meters long, How tall is the flagpole?
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Question 584726: A square park is surrounded by a path of uniform width 2 metres all round it. The area of the path is
288 sq. metres. The perimeter of the park is?
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Question 584918: One evening 1500 concert tickets were sold. Tickets cost $20 for pavillion seats and $15 for lawn seats. Total receipts were $27,500. How many tickets of each type were sold?
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Question 585079: 2.5m plus what equals 5m

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Question 585021: A flowerbed measures 40 inches across. Whats the distance around the edge of the flowerbed?
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Question 585109: A computer can print 12 pages in 8 seconds. At the same rate how many pages can it print in 24 minutes
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Question 585101: The width of a photo is 2.5 inches and the length is 3 inches. Use this ratio to set up a proportion to find the width of the photo that has a length of 9 inches. Set up an equation next to problem? Then solve equation by showing all steps. Hind: set up the proportion using width to length ratios?
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Question 585122: What is the hypotenuse of a right triangle if its area is 60 inches squared?
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Question 585124: What is the effect on the area of a triangle if the base is doubled and the height is cut in half?
What happens to the area, if the base is doubled and the height remains the same?
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Question 585175: the measure of an angle is 28 more than the measure of the smallest angle of the triangle. the measure of the third angle is twice the size of the measure of the the smallest angle. find all three measures
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