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Question 675354: Solve the trinomial equation, if possible. If cannot be factored write prime
r^2-10r+24=0
Show steps please.
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Question 675697: The outside wall of one endo of a house is rectacgular, 6yds high and 8 yards wide. The wall also has four circular windows, each one with a diameter of 2.5 feet. How many gallons of paint would it take to paint this wall if each gallon covers 500 square ft?

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Question 675932: Find the distance between the lines with the equations y=(2/7)x+4 and y=(2/7)x-2
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Question 676117: the backyard in 2 homes are going to be sodded. Which one requires more sod?
A: a backyard that measures 50ft by 65ft?
B: a backyard that measures 55ft by 60ft?
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Question 675817: A Norman Window is a rectangle with a semi-circle on top of it. Big Sky Window is designing a Norman window that will require 8m of trim around the perimeter of the window. What dimensions will allow the maximum amount of light to enter a house?
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Question 676231: Kai must buy canvas to make a sail for his sailboat. The sail will have the shape of a right triangle. It will be as tall as the mast(the vertical pole) and as wide at the bottom as the boom(the horizontal pole). If the mast measure 18 meters and the boom measure 9 meters, about how much canvas does Kai need to buy?
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Question 676435: The length of a rectangle is 8 m more than 6 times the width. The Perimeter is 156 m. Find the width.
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Question 676540: The perimeter of a geometric figure is the sum of the lengths of its sides. If the perimeter of the petagon (five-sided figure) is 84 meters, find the length of each side.
x=____ m
2x=____m
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Question 676670: 2 vertical telephone poles are 50 ft apart. One is 20 ft tall while the other is 60 ft tall. A blue laser shines from the top of shorter pole to the base of the taller pole and a red laser shines from the top of the taller pole to the base base of the shorter pole. What is the height of the point where the laser beams meet?
a) 15 ft
b) 18 ft
c) 20 ft
d) 21 ft
e) None of the above
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Question 676759: A rectangle's length is 3 more than three times its width . The perimeter is 110 cm. A: Find the rectangle's dimensions
and B: Find the area of the rectangle.
What does it mean to find the Dimensions? Please help
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Question 676888: The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 68 feet. If the length of the garden is 1 foot more than 2 times the width, What is the length of the garden?
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Question 677061: A rectangular tennis court is 60 feet long and 30 feet wide.
What is the length of the diagonal rounded to one decimal place?
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Question 677086: A fish tank is a rectangular prism whose height is 4 inches more than its width and whose length is three times as long as the width. Find the volume of the tank as a function of height. (V= lwh)
What Is The Answer ? Select A,B,C,OR D
A- V = 3h3 - 24h2 + 48h C- V = 5h - 8
B- V = 3h3 - 12h2 D- V = 3h3 + 12h2
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Question 677075: show me how to do
the length of the a rectangle is 7cm more thsn its widtrh what is the width of the rectanle if its perimenter is 94cm
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Question 678007: If a swimming pool has a perimeter of 18 meters and covers an area of 18 square meters what are its dimensions?
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Question 678091: Ashley ran 100 yards in 12 seconds. What was her speed in miles per hour? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 678312: the vertex angle of an isosceles (a+15) one of the base angles measures 7a. Find a and each angle measure
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Question 678207:
A rectangular yard measuring 37ft by 62ft is bordered (and surrounded) by a fence. Inside, a walk that is 4ft wide goes all the way along the fence. Find the area of this walk. Be sure to include the correct unit in your answer.

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Question 678259: i have a room 324 sq feet and i want to cover it with boards 1 x 8 x 10 how many boards will I need?
The room is 18 x 18 with 8 feet ceilings
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Question 678438: what is the equation of the line parallel to y=x-1 that contains the point (1,3)?
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Question 678370: The perimeter of a rectangle is 210m. If the length of this rectangle is three-fourths of its width, its dimensions are? I attempted solving this by using the equation P= 2L + 2W; and attempting to solve for the length, etc. I'm still stumped with the 3/4.
Thanks
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Question 678892: you participate in a 50 mile fundraising walk. You walk 40% of the distance the first day and 50% of the remaining distance the second day. How many miles do you have left remaining to complete the walk?

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Question 679039: what would the area of my lawn if it measures 4m x 4.5m
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Question 679052: Calculate the dimensions of a rectangle, knowing that the perimeter is 74m and that one of the dimensions is 3 times greater than the other.
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Question 679783: A baseball diamond is a sqaure with sides of 90 feet. what is the shortest distance, to the nearest tenth of a foot, between first base and third base
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Question 680004: the sum of the perimeters of two square lots is 140 meters while the sum of their areas is 625 square meters. what are the measures of the side of the squares? i also need solutions
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Question 680548:
the perimeter of a rectangle is 36 m. if the length is three times the width, what is the width?
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Question 680536: Please help me solve this ratio word problem.
The lengths of the side of a triangle are in the extended ratio 3:10:12.
The perimeter is 400 cm. What is the length of the longest side in centimeters?

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Question 680978: if the diagonal of a square garden is 16ft , what is the exact measure of each side
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Question 681107: I need help with this word problem:My online HW is giving me one last try on this problem.
The width of a rectangular piece of cardboard is 7 inches less than the length. A square piece that measures 3 inches on each side is cut from the corner, than the sides are turned up to make a box with volume 360 inches^3. Find the length and width of the original piece of cardboard.
Thank you so much for looking at the problem.
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Question 681350: A rectangular lawn 90 ft by 120 is mowed, cutting uniform (equal) widths around the outside. How wide a strip has been cut when the lawn is half mowed?
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Question 681674: On a scale drawing of a park, the sand box is 2 inches wide. The actual sand box is 8 feet wide. What is the scale of the drawing?
(1 point)1 in. = 4 ft
1 in. = 6 ft
4 in. = 1 ft
4 in. = 6 ft

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Question 681963:
A phone screen has a height of 4 inches with a diagonal measurement of 5 inches. How many inches wide is the rectangular screen? Enter only a numeric value for your answer (Do not use decimal point, =, space bar).
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Question 681321: a square garden 10 feet long needs to be surounded by a walk 2 feet wide on only 3 of s sides. What is the area of the walk?
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Question 682338: what size rectangular box do you need for 68 cu in
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Question 682894: The length of a rectangle is 18 cm more than the width. A second rectangle is 6cm shorter and 3 cm wider than the first and has a perimeter of 126 cm. Find the dimensions of each rectangle.
This is what I tried.
(w -3) +( w-3) +( w + 18+3) +( w + 18+3) = 126
but it did not work out correctly
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Question 682982: The length of a rectangular storage room is 8 f e e t l o n g e r t h a n i t s w i d t h . I f t h e a r e a o f t h e r o o m i s 1 0 5 s q u a r e f e e t ,
find its dimensions.
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Question 683328: A wooden cube of side 15cm is used to make a spherical ball. Work out the volume of wood that must be cut from the cube to make a ball with the largest possible radius.
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Question 683578: one side of right traingle is 12 cm long. The hyphotenuse is 3 cm more than twice as long as the other side. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 683651: i^7+i^5+i^3+i please write in standard form a+bi
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Question 683919:
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