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Question 760302: you are 18 feet away from a circular water tank and you are 42 feet away from a tangent. What is the radius of the circle?
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Question 760327: The length of a rectangle is 12. What is the width if the perimeter is 36.
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Question 760327: The length of a rectangle is 12. What is the width if the perimeter is 36.
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Question 760337: A quart of paint claims to cover 84 ft2
on its label.Find the perimeter
of the largest rectangular wall that can be covered by this paint if the
length of the wall is 14 ft.
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Question 760389: Anne wants to tie a support line from the top of a 50 foot radio tower to an anchor spot 30 feet from the tower�s base. Approximately how long will the line need to be?
I am taking a test on Tuesday, and I haven't had algebra or geometry in a long time. If I can just be pointed in the direction of how to set it up, I will be okay.
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Question 760667: The length of the top of a table is 2 m reater than the width. The area is 80m^2. Find the dimensions of the table.
The widthe of the table is _ m.
The length of the table is _ m.
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Question 761030: a circular garden bed has a perimeter of 54 m what is the Area?
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Question 761060: A cow is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long. Find the area it can graze?
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Question 760958: 1. A 16.2 m long wooden log has uniform diameter of 2 m. to what length the log should be cut to obtain a piece of 22m3 Volume.
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Question 761252: A horse track is to be developed with two half circles attached to the end of a rectangle. If the length of the home stretch (the long side of the rectangle) is to be a quarter mile, what does the radius of the end circles need to be in order for the full length of the track to be a mile?
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Question 761254: the rectangular floor of a closet is divided into two right triangles by drawing a diagonal one leg is one foot more than the other leg the hypotenuse is 5 feet determine the closets length and width.
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Question 761292: the diameter of the circular building is 14m, which is 33m in height. the staircase has been built along the curved surface in such a way that the first step and the last step are in vertical line. find the length of the staircase
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Question 761362: find the area of a rectangular lot in m squared. Which measures 4000 cm and 5 km?

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Question 761375: a rectangular plot of land is 100 feet and 50 feet wide. how long is the walkway along the diagonal? round to the nearest tenth
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Question 761438: A rectangular piece of plastic is 6 millimeters wide and 3 millimeters tall. What is its perimeter?
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Question 761348: A field, rectangular in shape, contains 64 square metres; if it were 4 metres longer and 3 metres narrower its area would be the same. Find its dimenstion.
Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
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Question 761568: The perimeter of any square is 420 cm,then the area of this square will be
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Question 761618: A lamp shade has top and bottom diameters 12cm and 19cm respectively and is 10cm high. Find the height of the cone of which this could be the lower part.
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Question 761550: A rectangle bin completely filled, holds 900 cubic feet of lime. If the bin is 10 feet long and 10 feet wide, how deep is it?
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Question 761664: The permiter of a rectangle is twice the sum of it's length and its width. The perimiter is 34 meters and its length is is 2 meters more than twice its length.
What is the length?
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Question 761792: two squares have sides x cm and(x+4)cm .the sum of their areas is 656 sq.cm. express this as an algebraic equation in x and solve the equation to find the sides of the squares
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Question 595256: Please help with the following: The formula to find the wind chill temperature is given by
W = 33 � (10.45 + 10√(v-v) )(33-T)
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Where, W is windchill temperature (temperature with no wind)
T is actual temperature in celcius
V is wind speeds in m/sec
Find the wind chill temperature giving the following:
a. T=10c; v=9m/sec
b. T=0c, v=15m/sec
c. T=-10c, v=20/sec
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Question 761857: A round tower with a 10 meter circumference is surrounded by a fence that is 2 meter from the tower all around.How long is the fence?
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Question 761873: A Polygon If A Segment Joining Any Two Points Of The Polygon Lies Completely Inside The Polygon
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Question 762016: Suppose that the volume of a right circular cylinder is 225 cubic meters and the area of its base is 25 square meters. What is the height of the cylinder?
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Question 762029: I am relearning Algebra for the ACT and I'm stuck on this problem. Can you help me?
Marlo has a basketball court that measures 30 feet by 50 feet. She needs a grass strip around it. How wide must the strip be, in feet, to provide 900 square feet of grass?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7
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Question 762064: you are flying a kite while standing 60 ft from a fence. if the kite string makes 40 degree angle with the ground how much string with the feet is left out when the kite is above the fence?
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Question 762111: a paper company makes rectangular pieces of cardboard for packing computers. the sheet of cardboard are to have an area of 54 square inches., and the length of the sheet is to be 5 inches more that 2/3 the width. determine the length and width of the cardboard to be manufactured.
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Question 762044: the perimeter of a rectangle equals the sum of the lengths of its for sides. if the with of a rectangle is 3 inches and its perimeter is 32 inches find the length of the rectangle
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Question 762194: In a triangle, the measure of the first angle is 24 degrees more then the second angle. The measure of the third angle is four times more then the second angle. If the total number of degrees in a triangle is 180, what is the measure of the largest angle?
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Question 762189: A rectangular yard is fenced on all four sides. The total length of the fence is 320 feet.
The length of the yard is 26 feet greater than its width.
Find the dimensions of the yard.

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Question 762221: A gardener builds a fence for a square garden that is 10 yd by 10 yd. A fence post is positioned at every corner and every 5 ft. How many fence posts will the gardener need?
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Question 762275: if a rectangle has a perimeter of 46 feet and area of 132 square feet, what is the length and width?
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Question 762406: Find the area of the walkway (24" wide) that will be installed around a circular Jacuzzi with diameter of 6'.
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Question 762397: A gardener has a 30 foot by 20 foot rectangular plot of ground. she wants to build a brickway of uniform width on the border of the plot. if the gardener wants to have 400 square feet of ground left for planting, how wide (to two decimal places) should she build the walkway?
I solved 2.19 but it was using trial and error.
my teacher asked for the complete process.

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Question 762522: A box has an area of 25m^2, the volume of 200m^3. What is the height of the box?
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Question 762686: A 12 foot rope is cut into two pieces so that one piece is 3 feet less than twice the length of the other piece. How long is each piece?
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Question 762657: A 1200 square foot rectangular garden is enclosed with 150 ft of fencing. Find the dimensions of the garden to two decimal places.
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Question 762703: If the top of the flagpole forms a 57� angle with the ground
50 ft. from the base of the building, about how tall is the school building?

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Question 762635: the length of a rectangle is 8 inches more than the width. The perimeter is 36 inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 762758: the perimeter of a triangle (the sum of its three sides) is 145.one of the sides is twice the length of the smallest side, and the third is five less than three times the smaller side.Find the lenght of each side
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Question 762836: A circular table has a radius of 72 cm.
Calculate the area of the table top giving your answer to the nearest 10 square centimeters.
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