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Question 617506: A sphere has a diameter of 18 meters. Find the volume of the sphere, in cubic meters, in terms of pi.
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Question 617505: Given the surface area of a sphere is 900pi, what is the volume of the sphere?
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Question 617452: A patio is 20 feet long. Its area is 1000 feet squared. What is the perimeter of the patio?
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Question 617640: Fhe distance between the lines y=2x, and y=3x+2 ????
a. write the equation of the perpendicular line with y int. =2.
b. solve the system of equations with this line and y=2x
c. use distance formula to find the distance between the two lines.
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Question 617637: My teacher is building a garden in her backyard. She has 90 ft of fencing to surround it. If she wants the length to be 15 ft longer than the width, what will the dimensions of the garden be?
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Question 617509: If the surface area of a cube is 110.94 ft^2, what is the volume of the cube?
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Question 617507: If the volume of a cone is 168pi inches^3 and its altitude is 14 inches, what is the radius of the cone?
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Question 617810: two flower beds are shaped like right triangles. what measurement can you show that two triangular flowers are beds congruent ?
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Question 617927: a cylinderical vessel of diameter 11cm is filled up with some water.when a cubical solid of side 5.5 cm is immersed in water completely then how much the level of the water will increase?
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Question 617960: what are the indicated operations of this ff.?
1.(-7)(8)=?
2.81/9=?
3.(-72)/(-8)=?
4.63/(-7)=?
5.(-56)/(-8)=?

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Question 617979: The volume of a cube is 176 less than the volume of a rectangular prism. The height is the same. The length of the prism is 6 more than the cube and the width of the prism is 2 more than the cube. Find the length of the cube.
This was on my algebra final today and it stumped me... I literally got every single other question wrong but I just couldn't figure this one out.
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Question 618153: ERICK HAS A BASEBALL THAT MEASURES 3 1/2 FEET IN LENGTH.WHAT IS THE LENGTH IN INCHES OF HIS BAT
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Question 618182: The scale factor between Solid A and Solid B is 3:4. What is the ratio between their heights?
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Question 618196: The total length of fencing needed to enclose a rectangular area 46ft by 34 is
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Question 618204: If the perimeter of a rectangle is 68 yards and the width is 48ft , the length is
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Question 618225: A rectangular bin 4ft long 3 ft wide and 2 ft high,it's solidly packed with bricks whose dimension are 8 in, 4 in,and 2 in. The number of bricks in the bin is?

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Question 618240: If the sides of a square are decreased by 4.5 cm the area is decreased by 50cm^2. What were the dimensions of the orginial square? Round the answer to the first decimal place.
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Question 618216: The area of a circle is 49π, find it's circumference, in terms of π
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Question 618389: The ratio of the perimeter of a rectangle to its longest side is 10 : 3. The perimeter is 40cm. What is the length of the longest side?
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Question 618407: the length of a rectangle is 4 centimeters less than three times its width. If the area is 55 square centimeters, find the length and width
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Question 618532: Eva wants to build a fence around her circular garden.if the gardens radius is 12 ft what is the best estimate for the length of the fence ? A. 19 ft B. 24 ft C. 38 ft or D. 75
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Question 618544: The length of a rectangular box is 7xy, the width is 5y2, and the height is 2xz. What would the expression for the volume of the box be.
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Question 618567: Using 3.14 (Pi) and rounding the answer to the nearest cubic inch. How many cubic inches of sand will be needed to fill a barrel 3 feet tall with a diameter of 18 inches?
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Question 618683: A 5'6" person walking down the street notices his shadow. If the angle of elevation from the tip of their shadow to the sun is 60�, what is the distance from the tip of the shadow to the top of his head (round to 2 decimal places)?
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Question 618655: draw two lines of lenth 6cm and 4 cm which bisect each other at right angles . join the end points. what figure yo get.
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Question 618722: Before an artist makes a full-size bronze statue of a horse, he makes a scale model. The model is inches high and contains cubic inches of bronze. If the full-size statue has a height of inches, what volume of bronze will it contain, to the nearest cubic inch?

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Question 618767: a garden is 11 feet by 18 feet is surrounded by a patio that is 6 feet wide all around. Find the outside dimensions of the garden and the patio combined. What is the area of the patio alone?
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Question 618762: The total lenght of fencing needed to enclose a rectangular area 46 ft by 34 is

Thank u for whom ever help me with this word problem.
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Question 618546: The area of a rectangle is 240in squared. The ratio of the width to the length is 3:5. Find the Length and the Width.
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Question 619045: A bowl contains five green olives and eight black ones. Will picks two olives. What is the probability that he gets one green and one black olive without replacement? Show work.
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Question 619089: Write the equation of a line through the points (4,3) and (6,4). Show work.
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Question 619046: Solve the linear system: 3x+y=5
2x+3y=8
Show all work.
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Question 618983: In triangle ABC, segment AB is greater than segment BC, angle C measures = 4x-4 and angle A measures = x + 9. Find the minimum integral value of X.
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Question 619210: I would just like to know the steps to solve this problem:
A square's side is increased by 2 yards, which corresponds to an increase in the area by 36 square yards. How many yards is the side of the initial square?
Thank you!
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Question 617548: a piece of wire 400cm in length is cut into 2 pieces one of the pieces is bent into a rectangal. the rectangle is x cm wide and 3x centimeters long what is the perimeter. give answer in terms of x
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Question 617400: Barb is going to cover a rectangular area 8 feet by 10 feet with rectangular paving blocks that are 4 inches by 8 inches by 2 inches to make a flat patio. What is the minimum number of paving blocks she will need if all the paving blocks will face the same direction? Note: Barb will not cut any of the paving blocks.
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Question 619561: the perimeter of a standard-size regular rug is 36ft. the length is 2 feet longer than the width. find the dimension.
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Question 619734: The lower base angles of an isosceles trapezoid are labeled a and b. What is the size of the angles if a is equal to 5x + 3 and b is equal to 3x + 17?
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Question 619686: 1)A certain marine engine has cylindars that are 3.01 inches in diameter and 5.09 inches deep. find the total volume of 4 cylinders?

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Question 619846: the side of a cube is represented by 2X-1 . Find, in terms of x, the volume of the cube

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Question 619947: one leg of a triangle is three times bigger than the other leg , the hypotenuse is 12 feet . how long is the shorter leg ?
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Question 620158: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 290 feet. If the width of the garden is 66 feet, what is its length?
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Question 620270: A cylinder has a lateral area of 48π square yards and a height of 6 yards, what is the diameter of the cylinder?
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