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Question 668562: A board is 77 inches long. how long is it in feet and inches?
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Question 668739: What is the measure of each interior angle of a regular heptagon?
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Question 668739: What is the measure of each interior angle of a regular heptagon?
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Question 668771: A truck left a depot at noon traveling an average of 40 kilometers per hour. How far from the depot and at what time will it overtake another truck, which left the same depot 2 hours earlier and was traveling 30 kilometers per hour?
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Question 668928: One leg of a right triangle measures 96 inches. The length of the hypotenuse is twice the other leg. If x represents the length of the other leg, which of the following equations is the Pythagorean Theorem written in general form?
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Question 669155: WHAT IS THE AREA OF THE CIRCLE IF THE SQUARE INSCRIBED OF AREA 57 SQUARE METER
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Question 669165: A rectangular area of 16 meters by 12 meters, is surrounded by a road 3 meters wide, the area of the road is?
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Question 669140: The length of a rectangular banner is 3 feet longer than its width. If the area is 70 square feet, find the dimensions.
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Question 669080: In an isosceles triangle, the length of each of the equal sides is 6m less than three times the 3rd side. Find the dimensions of the triangle if the perimeter is 37m
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Question 669198: How do I calculate The width of a rectangle is 10 feet less than half of its length. If all four sides of the rectangle add up to 52 feet, find the length and the width of this rectangle.
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Question 669225: Which one of the following is a better buy: a large pizza with a 14-inch diameter for $12.00 or a medium pizza with a 7-inch diameter for $5.00?
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Question 669237: word problems involving quadratic equation
the area of a rectangle is 52 square centimeters. find its perimeter when the length is 1 cm more than 3 times its width.
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Question 669219: A roof of a new home is 7,299 feet squared. It needs to be covered in tar paper before shingles are applied. The tar paper costs $39.98 per roll and each roll covers 200 yards squared. How much will it costs to cover the roof in tar paper ? ( Note that you must purchase the paper by the roll, not by partial rolls).
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Question 669758: The measure of one acute angle of a right triangle is 12 degrees more than the other acute angle. What is the measure of the smallest acute angle?
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Question 670029: The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 6300 how many sides does the polygon have?
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Question 670378: Please help me solve this question:
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Question 670937: a 8 ft board is to be cut into three pieces, two equal length ones and the third 3 in shorter than the other two. If the cutting does not result in any length being lost, how long are the pieces?
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Question 671374: Can you help me with this question? The perimeter of a rectangle is 60 feet. Find its length and width if the length is twice the width.
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Question 671349: Bases are rectangles with dimensions of 8 feet by 12 feet. The height is 3 feet.

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Question 671735:
If I have to make a pavement ten feet wide how long I have to make it in length to get 6300 square foot
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Question 671813: what is the area in square units of a rectangle with vertices (-2,5),(3,5),(3,-1)(-2,-1)

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Question 671907: Perimeter of square 24cm.What is its area
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Question 671907: Perimeter of square 24cm.What is its area
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Question 671960: A wheel on Yoko's bicycle is 2.2ft in diameter. Yoko races the bicycle for 221 ft . How many times does the wheel turn as the bicycle travels this distance?

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Question 672248: if the measure of the one of the base angles of an isosceles triangle is 62 degrees find the measure of the vertex angle
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Question 672248: if the measure of the one of the base angles of an isosceles triangle is 62 degrees find the measure of the vertex angle
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Question 672222: A container company wants to make a cylindrical can with a volume of 1188 cubic inches.The formula V=(pi)r^2h represents the volume of a cylinder.In this formula=, V represents the volume, r represents the radius of the cylinder's base, and h represents the height of the cylinder.Solve for h.What height should the company make the can if the radius of the base must be 6 inches?
( P.S ) The ^2 means that 2 is an exponent.
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Question 672287: A rectangular lot that measures 125 feet by 185 feet is
completely fenced. What is the length, in feet, of the
fence?
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Question 672291: A circle cuts the x-axis at (4,0) and (14,0), and cuts the y-axis at (0,6) and (0,8). Find its equation.

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Question 672459: A LAND MASS IS ROUGHLY IN THE SHAPE OF A RECTANGLE WHOSE PERIMETER IS 1200 MILES. THE WIDTH IS 80 MILES LESS THAN THE LENGTH. FIND THE LENGTH AND THE WIDTH.
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Question 672233: a ball with a diameter of 20 is partially submerged in a pool full of water so the top of the ball is 5 inches above the surface. The intersection of the ball and the waters surface forms a circle, find its circumfrence.
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Question 672865: The measure of one angle of a triangle is 26 degrees less than twice the measure of another angle. the measure of the third angle is 35. find the measure of the other two angles
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Question 673436: If you have a 108 square feet then enclose it by sqaure what is the length and width?

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Question 673644: find the area and the perimeter.
Perimeter is 50m
area is 62sq
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Question 674137: 36ft fishing line is cut to where the longer length is 6ft longer than the shorter length, what is the length of the shorter line?
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Question 674198: 8 feet shorter than the buildings height
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Question 674355: how to solve 7x-1=2x+5
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Question 674518: The width of a rectangle is 1 foot shorter than half the length. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 64 feet find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 674682: x^2 + y^2 - 4x + 2y = 15
i) Find the coordinates of the centre C of the cirlce and the radius of the circle
ii)Show that the point P (4, -5 ) lies in the circle
iii) Find the equation of the tangent to the circle at the point P
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Question 674995: Circle A has 1/2 the area of circle b. The radius of circle B is 6 cm. What is the radius of circle A?
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Question 675156:
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Question 675265: A rectangular garden is 7 yards wide. If you walked diagonally across the garden, you would walk 25 yards. How mahy yards long is the garden?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 675298: The height of a triangle is 2 units more than its base. If the base is increased by 4 units and the height is decreased by 2 units, the area of the resulting triangle will be 8 square units more than the area of the original triangle. Find the base and the height of the original triangle.
I've just learned that this is a quadratic equation and that the formula is A = 1/2bh. Area equals one half the base times height.
So, I think its supposed to be 1/2 (x + 4)(x + 2) - 2 = 8. I'm obviously doing something wrong because the instructors answer is that the base is 8 and the height is 10. What did I not do correctly?
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Question 675351: The area of a rectangle can be expressed as x^2+7x-30
What is the legnth and width of the rectangle?
Can you please show steps :)
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