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Question 718861: A rectangle has an area of 98 cm2. It length is double its width. How wide is it?
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Question 718885: a board on the wall in jeremy's class has 4 right angles, 4 equal sides, and 2 pairs of parallel side. which quadrilateral is it?
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Question 718975: Mr. Smith is building a large, circular driveway for his plantation home which has an outside diameter of 220 ft, and its soon-to-be concrete surface will be 10 feet wide (inside diameter is 200 ft), with concrete thickness being 6 inches. What is it's surface area in square feet? Let pi=3.14.
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Question 719036: The lengths of the sides of a right traingle whose hypotenuse is 50 ft when its height is 10 ft longer than its base is?
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Question 719578: A runner runs twice around a square lot that is 59 meters on one side. What is the distance covered by the runner?
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Question 719576: One side of a square lot is 23 meters. What is the distance around the lot?
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Question 719783:
Tthe perimeter of a parallelogram is 62 inches. If the length of one side is 20 inches, what is the side adjacent to it?
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Question 720058: the base of a triangle is 4 times as long as a side of a square, and the figures have equal areas. find the ratio of the altitude of the triangle to the side of the square
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Question 720014: the area of a right triangle is 210 square meter and its perimeter is 70 cm. Find the length of its hypotenuse.
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Question 720312:

How many 3 inch tiles to fill an area that is 216 sq ft?
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Question 720879: can you help me answer this :)
Given; L1: 2x+4y-8=0 and L2: 2x+3y-16=0
A. Find the distance between L1 and L3: x+2y-4=0
B. What is the general equation of the line wit slope equal to 1/3 the slope of L2 and which passess through the intersection of L1 and L2?
C. What is the general equation of the line perpendicular to L1 and which passes through x-intercept of L2.
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Question 720929: what is 10b exponent 2 - 15b = 8b - 12 its dealing with factoring trinomials: ax exponent 2 + bx + c.
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Question 720960: what is the answer to 10x exponent 2 - 9x + 6 its dealing with factoring trinomials: ax exponent 2 + bx + c.
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Question 720993: Mary plans to have a fence built around the triangular garden shown to the right. To the nearest foot, what length of fence will she need to buy?
30ft
Angle 62
37ft
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Question 721089: A triangular windowpane is 4 feet 8 inches wide and 3 feet 6 inches high. What is the area of the windowpane? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 721194: Betty wants to design a plexiglass aquarium in the shape of a cube out that will hold 5 cubic feet of water. What should be the length of each edge of the cube?
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Question 721303: two cylinders have the same volume. If the radius of cylinder 1 is 3 times the radius of cylinder 2, then the height of cylinder 2 is how many times the height of cylinder 1?
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Question 721531: Brenda wants to cut two pieces of material into equal-size squares with no material wasted. One piece measures 12 in. by 36 in. The other measures 6 in. by 42 in. What is the largest size square she can cut?
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Question 721586: The rule for notices placed on the bullentin board of the public library in Tenpenny Village is that they have an area no larger than 48 square inches. Simon posts a circular notice whose diameter is 7 inches. Has he complied with the rule?
What is the equation set up for one variable for this math problem?
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Question 721819: word problem -Charles has a circular carpet in his drawing room he wants to put a table in the middle of the carpet the diameter of carpet is 12 meters, diameter of table is 4 meters, calculate area of carpet is left after putting the table in the place.
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Question 721968: A concrete walk of uniform width surrounds a rectangular swimming pool. Let x represent this width. If the pool is 6 ft. by 10 ft. and the total area of the pool and walk is 96 ft�. Find the width of the walk.
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Question 722033: A rectangular piece of cardboard, whose area is 864 cm squared, is made into an open box by cutting a 3-centimeter square from each corner and turning up the sides. IF the box is to have a volume of 1620 cubic centimeters, what are the dimensions of the cardboard should you start with?
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Question 721969: The radius of a cylindrical popcorn tin is (3x+1)in. The height of the tin is three times the radius. What is the surface area of the cylinder? What is the answer in simplified form?
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Question 722148: what is the area and perimiter of a rectangle with the 52 length and width 23
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Question 722403: Three sides of a right triangle are labeled as x-2, x+5 and x+6. I need to find X. I used the Pythagorean theorem and after all my calculations I came to x=6. However, when I put it back into the theorem it does not add up. I am concerned I am doing something wrong in the algebra part of this equation. Can you help?
Here is my formula:
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Question 722484: Supreme pizza offer claims to have 25% more pizza than euclid's offer. Supreme pizza offer is two square pizza with the length of 1ft for 10.99 and Euclid's pizza offer is two cicle pizza with a diameter of 12in for 10.99? Which is a better deal? Is supreme's pizza offer 25% bigger, if yes explain your reasonings, if no compare them with percentages!
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Question 722518: If the area of a room is 800 meters squared. what would its length be in centimeters (cm) and millimeters (mm)
40m times 20m=800 meters squared
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Question 722490: A sidewalk will be built along the side edges of all 4 sides of rectangular lawn described in the table ( dimensions of lawn, length 32 ft, width 24 ft).
The remaining lawn will have an area of 425 sq ft. How wide will the walk be? PlEASE HELP.
I solve area= l.w =32*24=768 sq ft area of lawn.
768 sq ft-425 sq ft= 343 sq ft and I'm stuck. I don't know what to do next?
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Question 722578: Consider two rectangles, A and B. Rectangle A is four times as long as rectangle B and three times as wide. The perimeter of rectangle A is 106 cm and the perimeter of rectangle B is 30 cm.
What are the dimensions of the larger rectangle?
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Question 722853: how can i express the shaded portion of a rectangle as a decimal?
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Question 723040: a triangle has a perimeter of 31 inches. The smallest side is 4 less than the medium side. The biggest side is triple the medium side. What are the lengths of each side. What are the lengths of each side? How do I put this into an algebra equation to solve it?
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Question 723055: the length of a rectangle is 4cm less than twice its width.it's perimeter is 40cm.find it's length and width.
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Question 723132: The length of a rectangle is 1 less than three times it's width. The perimeter is 30 feet. Find the length of this rectangle
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Question 723162: Which of the following has the same relationship as the words below?
circle:cylinder
triangle sphere
square window
rectangle box
penatgon counter
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Question 723273:

my small bedroom is 8ft 10ins long by 7ft 6ins wide what is that in total square feet

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Question 723299: The base of a triangular sail for a boat is 5 yards.The height is 14 yards.What is the area of te sail?
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Question 723577: What is the area of a concrete side walk that measures 100 meters by 1.5 meters
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Question 723649: The volume of a sphere is 280cm cube. Find its radius to the nearest whole number.
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Question 723789:
A metal cube of edge 14 cm is melted and drawn into the shape of a cylinderwire of diameter 0.84cm.
What length of wire can be obtained?
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Question 723924:

A rectangular room is 20 ft long, 12 feet wide and 10 ft high. What is the max distance from one corner to another

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Question 723987: Right triangle ABC is graphed on the coordinate plane and has vertices at A(-1, 3), B(0,5), and C(4,3). What is the measure of angle C to the nearest degree?
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Question 724190: Right triangle ACB's altitude, CD, intersects AB at D. If AD = 3 and DB = 4, find the length of CD in simplest radical form.
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Question 724244: 3.- Draw a Diagram How could you use the following pieces of wood to measure 18 inches?
28 inches
56 inches
46 inches
?? i dont under standd
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