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Question 691148:
The rectangular pool at the Peabody is 27 feet wide. To put border tile around the pool the contractor would need 134 feet of tile?
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Question 691122:
The perimeter of a rectangle is 160 cm. The length is 4 less than three times the width. Find the dimensions.
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Question 691372: when the sides of a square are increased by 3 feet, the area becomes 25 square feet. find the length of the side of the original square
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Question 691394: The width of a rectangle is 7 cm less than its length and its area is 250cm. Find its dimmensions*you may use any method.
so what I tried doing is let X represent the length and do 250 equals (x-7)*7 but I feel like this is super wrong. Please help. Thanks in advance
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Question 691424: The unit cost in dollars for manufacturing IPODS is given by C(n)=0.004n^2-3.2n +660. what is the minimum cost?
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Question 691451: A circle has a radius of 3 inches. What is the area of the shaded space.
Shaded space is at 90 degrees to 180 degrees inside the circle.

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Question 691747: the perimeter of a rectangular garden is 64 feet. if the length is 4 feet less than twice its width, what are the dimensions of the garden?
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Question 692775: If the measure of the side of a square is decreased by 3cm, its perimeter is 48cm. What is the measure of its side?
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Question 693253: I need help figuring the steps to this problem: The length of a rectangle is five feet less than nine times the width. Find the length, width, and perimeter of the rectangle if the area is 4 square feet.
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Question 693422: A rectangle has a perimeter of 52ft and area of 120 sq ft. find the width of the rectangle.
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Question 693464: Find the area of an equilateral triangle given a side length of 8 in.
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Question 693540: the measures of two complementary angles are 12q - 9 and 8q + 14. Find the measure of the angles
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Question 693724: a cubic iron grid has side length 10m. find the length of the diagonal brace of the cube
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Question 693982: the length of a rectangle is 3 times its width. if the width is diminished by 1 meter and the length is increased by 3 meters, the area of the rectangle that is formed is 72 square meters. find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
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Question 694071: A rope is 214 inches long how much is this in feet and inches
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Question 694379: The total surface area of a can is 384pi square inches. Find the dimensions of the can if the volume is a maximum.
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Question 694568: A rectangular room is 16 feet long and 11 feet wide. If you paint a red rectangle on the floor that is 8 feet long and 3 feet wide, what is the area of the floor in the room that will NOT be red?
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Question 694717: a rectangular picture 12cm by 10cm has a border of uniform width. if the area of the border is 168cm squared, how wide is the border
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Question 695027: 1.) The area of a circle is 201 cm. Which is the circumference of the circle.
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Question 695315: What is the perimeter of a rectangle with one side that's measurement is 45.5 and the other side is 38.5
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Question 695675: The mean length of the sides of a triangular plot of land is 18 yards. What is its perimeter
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Question 696213: The largest angle of a triangle is three times the measure of the smallest angle. The measure of the remaining angle of the triangle is the average of the measures of the largest and the smallest angle. Write the system og equations that you would solve to find the measure of each angle of the triangle. Also, give the measure of each angle of the triangle.
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Question 696241: The position of an object moving in a straight line is given by s(t)=2t^2-3t, where s is in meters and t is the time in seconds the object has been in motion. How long will it take the object to move 10 m?
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Question 696240: The length of a rectangle is 4 in. more than its width. If 2 in. are taken from the length and added to the width, the figure becomes a square with an area of 192 in.^2. What are the dimensions of the original figure?
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Question 696473: The diagonal measurement of a T.V. is 21" The T.V. forms angle M, which measures 50 degrees. What is the height of the screen? Round to the nearest 10th of an inch.
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Question 696507: 4 bells toll at intervals of 8,9,12,15 minutes respectively, if they toll together at 3 pm, when will they toll together again?
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Question 696738: a rectangular play ground has two semi circles added to its out side its smaller side as diameter if the sides of the rectangle are 120 meter and 21 meter find the area of the play ground?
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Question 696621: divide a right angled triangle of sides ab=77 feet is the base,bc=60 feet and ca=97 feet into four equal parts longitudinally.

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Question 696134: Fran works due north of home.Her husband Ben works due east. They leave for work at the same time. By the time fran is 3 miles from home, the distance between them is one mile more than bens distance. What is bens distance?
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Question 695553: A rectangular field along a river is to be fenced with 800 feet of fencing find the dimension of the field which produces a maximum area
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Question 696904: If the length of a rectangle is increased by 30%and the width is decreased by 20%,then the area is increased by
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Question 696905: A 3 gallon mixture contain 1 part x and 2 parts y. In order to change it to a mixture containing 25%x, how much y should be added.
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Question 696907: How many odd numbers of three digits each can be formed from the digits 2,4,6,7 if repetition of digits is permitted
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Question 696907: How many odd numbers of three digits each can be formed from the digits 2,4,6,7 if repetition of digits is permitted
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Question 696835: The measures of the three sides of a triangle are
6, 8, and 10 centimeters. The midpoints of the
three sides are joined to form a second triangle.
How many centimeters are in the perimeter of
the second triangle?
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Question 696972: A rectangular photograph is twice as long as it is
wide. The perimeter of the photograph is 84 cm.
Find the length and the width of the photograph.
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Question 697048: the width and length of a rectangle are consecutive odd integers. If the width is w, find the perimeter, in simplest form, in terms of w.
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Question 697052:

A flat rectangular piece of aluminum has a perimeter of 60 inches. The length is 14 inches longer than the width. Find the width.
I need this answered with showing simplification and solving for the values. I already have the answer. I just need to know step by step how to get to the answer of 8 inches.
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Question 697103: The lenghts of the sides of a tringle are consecutive odd numbers. Find the lenghts of the sides if the perimeter is 7cm less than 4 times the shortest sides?

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Question 697105:
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Question 697164: A flat rectangular piece of aluminum has a perimeter of 60 inches. The
length is 14 inches longer than the width. Find the width.
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Question 697233: a rectangle has one side equal to(2x+4)cm and a perimeter of (6x+4)cm.what is the area of the rectangle in terms of x?
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Question 692329: A room has a length of 20' and a width of 10'. What is the area of this room in square meters?
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Question 697307: what is the complement of 51degree 37inches
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