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Question 747762: The shadow of a building is 63,7m long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 61,5 degrees. Calculate the height of the building.
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Question 747083: A storage box has a volume of 12 cube feet. If the height is 2 feet and the length is 6 feet, what is the width?
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Question 747787: the length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than its width and the area is 291cm squared find the width correct to 1 decimal place
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Question 747078: if the perimeter of a field is 266 ft and the length is 43 foot longer than the width what are the dimensions
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Question 747398: a flag pole is casting a 20ft shadow. the flag pole measures 16ft find angle evaluation of the sun
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Question 748027: susan took three tests during the grading period. her scores were 95, 85,and 75. what was her average. 90 85 80 87 .

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Question 748099: A rectangular garden is 10ft longer than its width. Its area is 875ft2. What are its dimensions?
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Question 748168: A square pyramid has volume 162 cm3. If the height of the pyramid is 6 cm, what is the length of each side of the square base? _________________ cm
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Question 748290: The volume of a room is 1,258 and three fifths cubic meters. The height of the room is 11 and three fifths meters. What is the area of the floor?
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Question 748546: 100-gon with a radius of 5
what is the area
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Question 748546: 100-gon with a radius of 5
what is the area
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Question 748573: I am building a round steel pipe pen, using 2 3/8" pipe uprights as coner posts, welding 5 2 3/8" pipe rails in place leveled horizonally betweeen each corner post. The inside diameter of finished pen is to be 40' 4", and made with 16 panels around the perimeter of the finished pen.
Question; What angle must each corner post be placed to finish the pen in an accurate round shape, with each corner angled the same and rails welded in place?
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Question 748530: Use the following quadratic formula to answer the following equation:
x=

3x^2+3x-3=0
x^2+14x-4=0
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Question 748726: Pedro has a practice net in his backyard. The diagonal of the net is 6 feet. Find the length of one side of the net .
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Question 748721: Carl is making a rectangular dog run. He has 36 one yard sections of fence that he plans to use to keep his dog inside. He wants the run to be as long as possible. what is the longest whole-number length he can use for the run?
Thank you for your help as I am unable to assist my daughter with this question.
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Question 748969: a water tank has a circular base with an area of 750 square centimeters. the height is 1.2 meters. What is the volume of the tank
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Question 749103: If a room is 136 square feet in perimeter. If the length of the room is 20 feet, what is the width?
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Question 749145: If the height of a rectangular prism is decreased by 1/3 then which statement is true?
A- Volume would decrease by 1/3
B- Volume would decrease by 1/6
C-Volume would decrease by 1/9
D- Volume would decrease by 1/27
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Question 749155: The area of a rectangular wall in the classroom is 216 square feet. Its length is 3 feet shorter than three times its width. Find the length and width of the wall of the classroom.
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Question 749152: The revenue for a small company is given by the quadratic function r(t)=15t2+7t+830 where t is the number of years since 1998 and r(t) is in thousands of dollars. If this trend continues, find the year after 1998 in which the company's revenue will be $1412 thousand. Round to the nearest whole year.
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Question 749182: A rectangular flower bed is 3 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many feet of fence will be needed to fence the flower bed
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Question 749141: Please help me solve this equation: A pizza parlor offers pizzas with diameters of 8 in, 10 in, and 12 in. Fine the aread of each size of pizza. Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 749188: A sandbox is 2 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. What is the perimeter of the sandbox in centimeters

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Question 749129: A rectangle has an area of 2 3/4 square yards and a width of 1/3 yards, what is the length of the rectangle

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Question 749285: The area of the clear panel in the top section is 15 feet square. What is the hieght of the top section?
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Question 749474: Find the measures of two supplementary angles if 4 times the measure od one is 36 degrees more than twice the measure of the other.

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Question 749543: A 5'6" person walking down the street notices his shadow. If the angle of elevation from the tip of their shadow to the sun is 60�, what is the distance from the tip of the shadow to the top of his head (round to 2 decimal places)?
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Question 749579: What is the area of a square parcel of land if the so side length is an integer?
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Question 750039: Find, to the nearest square yard, the area of a triangular plot of ground that measures 15 yards by 20 yards by 25 yards.
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Question 750067: A tree casts a shadow 18 feet long. At the same time, a vertical rod 9 feet high casts a shadow 6 feet long. How tall is the tree?
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Question 750076: At 3 pm,a 10-foot pole casts a shadow of 8 feet on a horizontal ground.How long must be a rope be,in order to connect the top of the pole and the tip of the shadow a the time of observation?
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Question 750057: finding the perimeter of a 6sides hexagon with 12cm?

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Question 750412: in a right triangle the length of the hypotenuse is 52 and the length of one leg is 48 whats the length of the other leg
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Question 750413: The area of a rectangle is 250ft. You want the length to be 5ft longer than twice its width. What should the dimensions of the rectangle be.
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Question 750432: What is the area of a regular octagon measuring 37 m on each side?
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Question 750485: f(x) = x^2
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Question 750486: f(x) = x^2 find f(0), f(2), and f(-2)
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Question 750414: a 15 foot ladder leaning against a building touches the wall 12 feet above the ground. How far from the building is the bottom of the ladder
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Question 750477: To funnel down a 6x6 square at a 70 degree angle
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Question 750450: the cost of mailing a package varies directly as the weight. If a 20z package costs 44 cents to mail, how much does it cost to mail a 15 oz packages?
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Question 750541: johanna built a rectangular fence inside her garden that enclosed 102 square feet of land.If the length and width were both whole numbers which shows the least number of feet of fence johanna could have used

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