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Question 599090: The length of a rectangular garden is four times its width. The perimeter of the garden is 240 meters. What is the length of the garden?
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Question 599451: The product of two consecutive even integers is 224. Find the integers
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Question 599645: the base of a triangle exceeds the height by 9 feet. if the area is 315 square feet, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle

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Question 599589: Antoinette attaches a wire from the top of an 8-foot pole to the ground. The wire makes an angle of elevation of 45 degrees with the ground. What is the length of the wire?
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Question 599693: 3.) Find the three measures of central tendency (the mean, median, and mode).
15,12,10,8,6,9,10

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Question 599691: 2.)Consider the following salaries for the executives of a certain company

President $240,000
1st VP $230,000
2nd VP $100,000
Supervising manager $65,000
Accounting manager $65,000
Personnel manager $39,000
Department manager $30,000
Department manager $30,000
What is the median?
65,000
99,875
30,000
140,000
133,000

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Question 599567: I am working this problem with my son and just want to make sure that I have the right format: A wire is bent to form three semicircles; find the length of the wire in terms of pi.
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Question 599471: what is geometry
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Question 600121: hello please answer this question
how much smaller is the area of a 60cm by 40cm rectangle than that of a square with the same perimeter.
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Question 600149: Dolores is on a bridge that is 45 feet above a lake. She sees a boat at a angle of depression. What is Delores�s approximate horizontal distance from the boat?
A. 26 feet
B. 32 feet
C. 90 feet
D. 78 feet
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Question 600227: Find the supplementary angle of 49 degrees.
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Question 600399: The combined area of two squares is 148 square meters. The sides of the larger square are 6 times as long as the sides of the smaller square. Find the dimensions of each of the squares.
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Question 600407: The legnth of a rectangular rug is twice its width. If the area of the rug is 450 square feet, find the length and width of the rug.
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Question 600789: What is the sum of the 2 solutions of the equation x�+5x-24=0
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Question 600757: I need help solving this problem: The side of a square equals the width of a rectangle. The length of the rectangle is 6 meters longer than its width. The sum of the areas of the square and rectangle is 176 square meters. Find the side of the square
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Question 600794: the perimeter of a rectangle is 32 feet. find the dimensions if the length is 4 feet longer than three times the width. then find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 600886: A plane is flying at an altitude of about 7 miles above Earth. What is the measure of the arc that represents the part of Earth you can see? The radius of Earth is about 4000 miles. Please help me. I have tried to do this problem many times but the concept confuses me. Thank you.
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Question 600987: the length of rectangle is 14 feet more than the width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 132 feet. Find the width
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Question 601038: What is the longest shadow that would be cast by a 5 foot tall fence between June 1st and October 1st in Appleton, WI?
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Question 600994: A regular 30-sided polygon is inscribed in a circle with a radius of 8. Use the law of cosines to find an exact expression for the length of one of the sides.

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Question 601099: In order to set up for a fiar, Guadelupe divides the gymnasium into four sections by putting out two lines of rope that intersect in the middle of the gymnasium. The regions are numbered from one to four in a clockwise manner. If the angle at the ponit of intersection for region 2 has a measure of 69 degrees, what is the angle measure of region 3?
a) 56 b) 111 c) 138 d) 69
plesea show step for step!!!
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Question 601113: A streamer is hung horizontally across the top of a rectangular room, from the upper northwest corner to the center of the ceilng. The streamer forms an angle of 65.3 degrees with the westt wall. What is the measure of the angle formed by the streamer and the north wall?
PLEASE HELP!!!
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Question 601322: On a directional compass how many degrees are between East and South-West?
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Question 601416: Luis is tiling the rectangular floor of a room measuring 8 feet 6 inches by 12 feet. How many 6-inch-by-6-inch tiles will Luis need to tile the floor without overlapping? Also, I would like to know how you answer the problem not just the answer. Thank you!
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Question 601005: Consider a regular n-gon, with all of its diagonals, where n > 4. A triangle in the n-gon consists of 3 vertices on the n-gon's perimeter and the 3 edges (from the perimeter of the n-gon or its diagonals) connecting these vertices to each other. How many triangles in the n-gon have more than one diagonal as edges?

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Question 601626: Determine the volume of a shpere with the measurements of 268.158 cubic feet and a cube with the measurements of 64 cubic feet.
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Question 601738: how many2.5cm segments are in a 10cm segment

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Question 601748: Compute the volume of a storage shed that has a square floor 3 meters on each side and is 3 meters high
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Question 601856: how many units cubes will it take to fill up a box that is 9ft by 6ft?
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Question 601935: how do i solve problems that go like this ---- The sum of two numbers is -16. the difference is 30. find the two numbers

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Question 601950: the diagonal of a rectangular room is 39 ft long. One wall measures 2 ft longer than the adjacent wall. find the dimensions of the room
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Question 602413: The diameter of a construction pipe is 3ft . If the pipe is 17ft long, what is its volume?
(Use the value 3.14 for 2 , and round your answer to the nearest cubic foot. Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.)
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Question 602652: 1. The border around a square painting is 4cm wide. Each side of the painting is 40cm long. Find the area of the border.
2. A rectangular flower-bed measures 10m by 6m. It has a path 2m wide around it. Find the are of the path.
3. A rectangular piece of glass measures 60cm by 46cm. When it is placed on a table, it leaves a margin 4cm wide all round it. What is the area of the table-top NOT covered by the glass?
4. A rectangular carpet is placed on the floor of a room which measures 8m by 7m. It leaves a margin 1m wide around it. Find the area of the carpet.
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Question 602683: Rectangular box has its length and its width halved. what is the effect on the volume
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Question 602819: The area of a square is (4x^2-12x+9) sq.cm.The width of a rectangle is five cm greater than a side of the square while the length of the rectangle is twice the side of the square.What is the area, in sq.cm. of the rectangle? please show me the steps.
A.16x^2-12x-14
B.8x^2+10x-12
C.4x^2-8x-16
D.4x^2+2x-2
E.None of these
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Question 602822: Find the measure of the third side of a triangle if the perimeter of the triangle is 10x^2+2x-6 and two of the sides are 2x^2+4x-4 and 4x^2-5x+3. Please show me the steps.
A.4x^2+3x-5
B.4x^2-7x+1
C.4x^2+11x-7
D.4x^2+x-5
E.none of these
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Question 602756: The circumference of a circle is 26 pi cm. Find the diameter, the radius, and the length of an arc of 170 degrees.
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Question 602860: An aquarium measure 24 inches by 12 inches by 18 inches. It is filled with water to 2/3 of it's capacity (volume). What is the volume of water in the aquarium?
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Question 602884: An aquarium measures 24 inches by 12 inches by 18 inches. It is filled with water to 2/3 of it's capacity (vloume). What is the volume of the water in the aquarium?
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Question 602854: For the given angle find the measure of the exterior angle BCD
A is (80-10x)
B is (56-7x)
and CD is (126-22x)
I know the correct answer is 170 but I do not know how they arrived at that.
I tried 80-10x + (56-7x) = 126-22x and my answer was -2
Please help.
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Question 602815: Find the are of the shaded region. The radius of circle O is 16 cm
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Question 602353: find the area of a triangle whose height is 3.4km and base is 4 km
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Question 603040: What is the volume of a cylinder that is 18 inches high and has a diameter of 12 inches?
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