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Question 712888:
The length of a rectangular picture frame is three inches more than the width. If the perimeter of the frame is 50 inches, what are the dimensions of the frame?
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Question 713099: a picture is completely surrounded by a border 5cm wide if the picture is 20cm long and 18cm wide what is the width of the frame
what is the length of the frame
what is the area of the picture and the frame
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Question 713541: find the strip of a rectangle whose length is 100 and the width is 60
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Question 713712: two angles of a triangle have the same measure. The measure of the third angle is five less than three times the measure of each of the other angels. Find the measures of the angles in the triangle.
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Question 713782: The area of circle P is 4 times pie. The area of circle Q is 25 times pie. What is the ratio of their radii?

p.s. I don't know what a radii is.
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Question 714147: you are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. you look up at the top of the tree. approximatley how far is your head from the top of the tree in a straight line
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Question 714144:
the area of a rectangular field is 5301 yards if the width of the field is 57 yards what is the length
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Question 714232: Swimming Pool - The area A of a rectangular swimming pool is given by the equation , where w is the width of one side. Write an expression for the other side of the pool.
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Question 714910: the question is.. An irrigation system waters a circular field that has a 60-foot radius. Find the exact area watered by the irrigation system.
i was using the formula Pi*r^2
thank you for your help
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Question 714984: Please help me solve this equation: A piece of log is 5 m long, is cut into 2 parts. If the longer part is x, the length of the shorter part is..
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Question 715027: how much sq feet is 25L*6W*5H M

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Question 715158: two cylinders have the same surface area. the shorter has a radius of 3 cm and a hight of 2 cm, the taller one has a radius of 1 cm.
calculate :
a)the surface area of one of them
b)hight of taller cylinder
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Question 715295: a baseball diamond is a square 27 m on a side .how far is the home place from the second plate
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Question 715391: Could you please help me with this geometry problem?
Problem: In triangle ABC, angle A is 5 times angle B, and angle C is 16 degrees less than angle B. What are the measures of the three angles?
My attempt: I tried to figure this problem out by forming an equation. I did A5=B
and got B/5. I took B/5 and tried the equation C- 16 degrees= B/5. I then multiplied 5 by each variable. I got 5c-80 degrees= B. I divided 5c and b by 5 and ended up with c-80 degrees= B/5... Here i got lost.. I know that i'm doing this wrong. I don't remember how to solve this problem...
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

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Question 715524: if 1cm = 12 yrd how many yrd is 28cm?
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Question 715629: what is the geometric concept suggested by each.
1.pencil
2.beam of light
3.edge of a box
4.clothesline
5.cover of a book
6.tip of a pencil
7.top of a table
8.speck of dust
9.edge of this page
10.a sheet of paper
11.sunlight
12.table cloth
13.intersection
14.tip of a ballpen
15.floor
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Question 715805:
A GARDEN PLOT IS 16 FEET WIDE. IF THE PERIMETER OF THE PLOT IS 72 FEET, WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE TILE?
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Question 715803: When Bully folds a square piece of paper in half either horizontally or vertically, the resulting rectangle has a perimeter of 39 cm. In square centimeters, what is the area of the original square piece of paper that Bully folded? What are the dimensions of the rectangle and the original square?
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Question 715766:

What is the diagonal of a rectangular room which measures 15 feet by 17 feet?
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Question 716335: The circumference of the driveway is 315feet.What is the approximate diameter of the driveway?
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Question 716464: If fence posts are to be placed in a row 5 meters aprat, how many posts are needed for 200 meters of fencing?
Would you multiply 200 X 5 = 1000 posts? If so, why?
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Question 716428: You have one 3 -cm strip, one 5 -cm and one 7-cm. how can you use all there measure the lenth of 9-cm? Show me a picture
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Question 716626:
I have a garden that is 20m by 12m and a path around the garden that is 2m wide. What is the area of the path?
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Question 716706: callie says that a rectangle with a greater perimerter will also have a greater are. is callie correct? Use a drawing and an organized list to support your explanation.

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Question 716825: Find the coordinates of the midpoint of the segment whose endpoints are H(8,2) and K(6,10).
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Question 716907: the perimeter of an atlas is 1.4m how long might each side be
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Question 717111: 5. A gardener wants to divide a square piece of lawn in half diagonally. What is the length of the diagonal if the side of the square is 8 ft? Leave your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 717117: Find the range of the third side of a triangle 25 and 38
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Question 717341: Level C
You have designed a picture that is shaped as a square. The
dimensions of your picture are 6 inches by 6 inches. You want
to make it into a poster with dimensions 13 inches by 13
inches. The duplication machine has three settings, one that
reduces the linear measure by a factor of 75%, one that
enlarges linear measure by a factor of 140% and one that just
makes identical copies or applies the factor of 100%. How
many multiple enlargements or reductions will you need to
make in order to create a poster that has its sides 13 inches
long (accurate within five-hundredths)? Explain what setting
was used and how that changed the measurements of the copy
for each step in the process.
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Question 717460: A SQUARE FIELD HAS AN AREA OF 900 SQUARE METRES. WHAT IS ITS PM

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Question 717456: Concrete is sold by the yard, which means by the cubic yard. It costs $70 per yard. How many cubic feet are in a cubic yard? How much would it cost to pour a slab 14 ft by 16 ft by 6 in. for a patio?
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Question 717512: An aquarium weigh 24.5 lb when empty. The length is 30in. long, 15in wide, and is filled with water to a depth of 20in. Water weighs 0.5 pound per cubic inch. How much does the aquarium weigh when its full of water?
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Question 717615: Find the area of the rectangle with length 27 inches and width 40 inches?

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Question 717706: A concrete walk of uniform width is to be built around a circular pool, as shown in the figure. The radius of the pool is 11 meters, and enough concrete is available to cover square meters. If all the concrete is to be used, how wide should the walk be?
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Question 717620: Question:
The perimeter of a rectangular field is 60 meters. Its area is 200 meters. Find its dimensions.

Please explain what you do.
Thanks
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Question 717506: 25 inch piece of steel is cut into 3 pieces so the second piece is twice as long as the first piece and third piece is 1 inch more than 5 times the length of the first piece. What are the length of each piece?
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Question 718019: a open box is to be constructed from a square piece of sheet metal by removing a square of side 6 feet from each corner and turning upp the edges.if the box is to hold 864 cubic feet,what should be the dimensions of the sheet metal?what is the length of a side of the square piece of sheet metal?
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Question 718027: Find the dimension of a rectangle. The area is 238cm^ and the perimeter is 62cm?
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Question 718216: The area of a square is 27cm2 .what is the width
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Question 718343: There is an aquarium in the shape of a cube that measures 3 feet on each edge. The aquarium has a screened lid for the top. What is the surface area of the aquarium, including the lid?
I know that surface area = (2 x l x w) + (2 x l x h) + (2 x w x h); thus
(2 x 3 x 3) + (2 x 3 x 3) + (2 x 3 x 3) = or 18 + 18 + 18= 54 square feet.
I did this similar problem, did the same formula and got it wrong. "Josh keeps his pet lizard in a terrarium with a glass floor and 4 glass walls. For a roof, it has a screen panel. What is the total surface are of the glass floor and walls? By how much does the surface area increase if you include the screened roof?" dimensions are l=80cm w=40cm and h=50cm. I got 18,400 sq. cm....but I don't know about the whole lid thing. Thanks for any help.

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Question 718533: A square is transformed into a rectangle by decreasing the length of two of its parallel sides by 6 centimeters, and by decreasing the length of its other two parallel sides by 5 centimeters. If the area of the rectangle is 6 square centimeters, find the set of all possible lengths of the sides of the original square.
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Question 718543: The sum of a number and 63 times its reciprocal is 16. Find the set of all numbers with this property.
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Question 718600: A circular pool has a radius of 15 feet. How many feet is one lap around the edge of the pool?
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