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Question 620398: The perimeter of a rectangular sign is not to exceed 50 feet. The length is to be twice the width. What widths will meet these conditions?
The only formula I know is: P=2(l+w) I dont understand how this formula solves this problem.....please help me. Your time and efforts will be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
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Question 620487: The gym floor at the community college is being sanded. The floor is 120 feet by 85 feet. The workers have finished 1/4 of the floor. How many square feet have been sanded?
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Question 620504: How long is each side of an octagon that is 16 ft. across?
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Question 620904: An investor invested a total of $1800 in two mutual funds. One fund earned a 6% profit value while the other earned 4% profit. If the investor's profit was $80, how much was in each mutual fund? The amount invested in the fund that earned 6% was __________. The amount invested in the fund that earned 4% was ________>
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Question 620946: if i have a square that has a shaded region that has a height of 120 and width of 180, what's the perimeter and area of my square?
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Question 620950: what is the area in square centimeters of a triangle that has 345 meters?
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Question 620937: one angle is 4 degrees more than three times another. find the measure of each angle if
a. they are complements of each other
b. they are supplements of each other
how do you solve this problem?
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Question 621199: Please help me solve this equation: A rectangular box that is closed at the top is constructed so that its length, width, and height are in the ratio 5 : 4 : 2, respectively. If the surface area of the box is 931 square centimeters, what is the number of cubic centimeters in the volume of the box? Thanks
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Question 621360: a cylinder with a diameter of 22 inches and a volume of 15,19706 cu. in. find the depth of the cylinder

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Question 621400: a circular pond has a diameter of 110cm. find the area of the pond.

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Question 621399: A square garden plot measures 180 square feet. A second square garden plot measures 405 square feet. How many more feet of fence will the second garden plot require over that required for the first garden plot?
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Question 621390: The measure of one of the complementary angles is four times the measure of the other angle.What is the answer?
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Question 621397: A square garden plot measures 180 square feet. A second square garden plot
measures 405 square feet. How many more feet of fence will the second garden
plot require over that required for the first garden plot. The answer is 12 square root of 5. But how did they get this???????
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Question 621460: the perimeter of a rectangle is 74 inches. Two of the sides of the rectangle measure 21 inches each. how long is each of the other sides?

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Question 621313: The base ground of your house measures 20m  9m. You want to build a rectangular
fence surrounding your house which is at a distance of 3m from the house at all sides.
How many meters of fence do you need?
Please explain because I really don't understand it at all!
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Question 621553: A 6 foot man casts a shadow that is 1 1/2 feet long. At the same time, a tree casts a shadow that is 6 feet long how tall is the tree?
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Question 621759: A Rectangular shaped x-ray film has an area of 80 square inches. The lenght is 2 inched longer than the width. Find its width and lenght.
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Question 621821: Circle patio, 16 feet across which means that is a 8 foot radius. How many square feet is the patio ?
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Question 621991: a regular hexagon wiht sides of 3 inches is inscribed in a circle. find the area of a segment formed by a side of the hexagon and the circle

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Question 622023: There are 2.54 centimeters in 1 inch. If a student is 64 inches tall, then which of these is the BEST estimate of the student�s height in centimeters

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Question 622040: The dimensions of the rectangular pool shown below are 40 yards by 20 yards. A fence will be built around the outside of the deck. The ratio of the dimensions of the fence to the dimensions of the pool is . How many yards of fence should be purchased to enclose the deck?
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Question 621931: a piece of wire 14 cm long is cut into two pieces. one piece is used to form a square shape and the other to form a rectangle shape of which the length is twice its width. find the length of the side of the square if the combined area of the two shapes is 5.35cm^2.
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Question 622191: find the length of the diagonal brace used to reinforce the barn door 12ft by 5ft
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Question 622175: The largest swimming pool in the world is in Casablanca. With a perimeter of 1110 meters this rectangular shaped pool is 30 meters longer than 6 times its width. How many meters wide is it?

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Question 622228: The lab table has a perimeter of 214 inches. The length is 13 inches less than 3 times the width. How many inches long is the table?

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Question 622232: The United States Department of Agriculture reports that 15% Americans are now on food stamps. If there are about 300 million Americans, how many millions of people are on food stamps?

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Question 622273: Find the dimensions of a rectangle with a perimeter of 42 cm if the length is 7 cm less than three times the width.
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Question 622289: in a rectangular plot of ground measuring 80 by 60 units, what is the lenth of the diagonal?
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Question 622305: The perimeter of a rectangle is 38 inches, and the area is 90 square inches. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 622433: A Piece of wire 76 cm long is cut into two pieces, each bent to make a square. The of a side of one square is to be 3cm longer than the length of a side of the other. How should the wire be cut?
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Question 622526: ski slope drops 30 feet for every horizontal 20 feet. find the slope.
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Question 622617: A carpenter cuts 1 ft 5 in from a board of legnth 14 ft 1 in what is the length of the board after the cut?
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Question 622667: Given that "J" between "p" and "o"
If PJ = 10, JO = 12 Find PO
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Question 622725: Both Tony and Linda own canoes. The two canoes have exactly the same shape, and they are both made from the same material. Tony's canoe is 8ft long, and it weighs 96lb. If Linda's canoe is 14ft long, how much does it weigh?

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Question 622798: One side of triangle is one-fourth the longest side. The third side is 10 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 116 . Find all three sides.

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Question 622959: the area of a swimming pool is 200 square feet. the lengthof the pool is 10 feet longer than the width.what is the width of the swimming pool?

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Question 622919: A veterinarian wishes to use 192 feet of chain-link fencing to enclose a rectangular region and subdivide the region into two smaller rectangular regions, as shown in the following figure. If the total enclosed area is 1386 square feet, find the width w and length l of the enclosed region. Smaller width and larger width.
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Question 623096: M<5=65 is true?
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Question 623185: in un rettangolo una dimensione � il triplo dell' altra e la loro somma misura 120 cm. calcola il perimetro di un triangolo equilatero il cui lato � congruente al doppio della dimensione minore del rettangolo.
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Question 623306: A rectangle has a perimeter of 32ft. Find the maximum area of the rectangle.
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Question 623308: Find the equation of the circle (in standard form) with radius 7 and center (0,-4.
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Question 623405: I have a swimming pool to install that sides roll out to measure 75ft. THe pool is to be an exact circle. Can you tell me what size circle I need to install the pool?
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Question 623402: Cecelia measured the lengths if two shadow's - the school building (30 ft) the flagpole (15 ft.) If the flagpole is 20 ft. high, then how high is the school building?
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