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Question 775831: need to paint a room with a floor that is 75ft x 90ft the ceiling is 9ft from the floor. the room has a dimension of 3ft x 7ft. what is the total area? I dod 75 x 90 x 9= 60750ft sq, is this correct?
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Question 776284: a parallelogram and a rhombus are equal in area.the diagonals of the rhombus are 110m and 44 m.if one of the sides of parallelogram is 88m,find its corresponding altitude
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Question 776462: Write an example of each property listed. A) Associative property of multiplication
B)Commutative property of multiplication
C) Distributive property
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Question 776585: The measure of an angle is 50 more than that of its complement. Find the measure of each angle. 70, 20
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Question 776678: a small square is constructed. Then increasing each side by 2 meters makes a new square. The perimeter of the new square is 3 meters shorter than five times the length of one side of the original square. Fine the dimensions of the original square.

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Question 776797: A flying disk has a diameter of 9 inches. What is the circumference of the disk in inches? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 777259: Write a quadratic function for the volume of a rectangular sold that has a height of 4 meters and a width that is 2 less than 5 times its length.
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Question 777188: Please help me. I am a two digit number. The sum of my digits is 9. The digit in the tens place is one half the value of the digit in the ones place. What number am I?
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Question 777294: Dear Math tutor,
A steel ball of volume 600cm^3 is melted down and made into three balls. A, B and C. if the volumes of A,B and C are in the ratio 7:5:3, calculate to 1 d.p the radius of each of A, B, and C.
do i add the ratios together and then divide it by 600? 600/15=13.4. then 13.4x7 ,13.4x5, 13.4x3 and use r^3=3V/4pi?
Best wishes,
Nats
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Question 777393: The second side of a triangular deck is 6 feet longer than the shortest side and a third side that is 6 feet shorter than twice the length of the shortest side. If the perimeter of the deck is 48 feet, what is the shortest side of the deck is____ ft.
I'm having trouble getting started
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Question 777442: The sides of a triangle are in the ratio 12:13:14. The perimeter is 156 cm. Find the lengths of the sides of the triangle.
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Question 777543: a square garden has sides of length 14ft what is the perimeter
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Question 777839: the area of a rectangular box is 33cm2.If the width is 8 cm less than the length. what are the dimensions
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Question 777879: A rectangle 9cm long is equal in area to a square which has a perimeter of 24cm. Find the width of the rectangle
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Question 777960: One side of the flower bed is 6 feet long and another side is 9 feet long. Which could be the length in feet of the third side? it is a triangle flower bed please help ?
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Question 778183: The length of the top of a table is 5m greater than the width. The area is 66m. Find the dimensions of the table
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Question 778415: A square piece of fabric is cut diagonally. If the square is 1 yard on a side, how long was the cut?
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Question 778250: the perimeter of a square flower bed is 26 yards. find the length of one side of the flower bed
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Question 778557: 22. One side of a parallelogram exceeds the other by 30cm. If the perimeter of the parallelogram is 260cm, find the lengths of the sides of the parallelogram.
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Question 778765: if a 42 inch television is 21 inches high how wide is the television Pythagorean theorem
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Question 778765: if a 42 inch television is 21 inches high how wide is the television Pythagorean theorem
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Question 778805: A flag has a ratio of the length to width of 5:2,
If the flag is 100cm long, how many centimetres wide will it be?
What would the area of this flag be in centimetres squared?
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Question 778881: The second side of a triangle is 4 inches longer than the first. The third side is 10 inches shorter than two times times the first. What is the measurement of the side of the triangle?
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Question 778959: -x^7y^8/y^2=
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Question 779058: one angle of an obtuse triangle is four times the first angle, while the third angle is 30 degrees less than the first angle. what are the degree measures of the three angles?
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Question 779172: A rope with a length of 54 cm is cut into two parts. One part is used to form a square with sides of 6cm and the other is shaped into rectangle. The length of the rectangle is twice its width. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 779216: The ratio of Julia's mass to Alvin's is 8:7.If Julia's mass is 65.6 kg.Find Alvin's mass.
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Question 779240: A garden measuring 12 meters by 16 meters is to have a pedestrian pathway installed all around it, increasing the total area to 285 square meters. What will be the width of the pathway?

I know that the area of the path is 93, but what do I do with that???
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Question 779507: a rectangle has an area of 128 cm to the 2nd power and a perimeter of 48 cm. the measure of one side is twice the other side. what are the measures of the rectangle?

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Question 779485: a kite s flying 70ft above the ground. f there s 120 ft of string out held at 3ft above the ground , what s the angle between the (perfectly straight)string and the horizontal?
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Question 779854: a rectangular parking lot is 253.5 feet long and 174.5 feet wide. A 55- gallon drum of asphalt sealer covers 4,000 square feet and costs $97.50. Find the cost to seal the parking lot. (sealer can only be purchased in full drums)
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Question 780277: A 120 line segment is divided into two parts having the ratio 3:5. What are the measures of each part?
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Question 780430: The north wall of a barn is a rectangle 30 feet high and 66 feet long. There are three windows in the wall, each 5 by 7 feet. If a gallon of paint will cover 375 ft2, how many gallons of paint must the painter buy to paint the wall?
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Question 780463: The length of a rectangle is l 1 inches, and its width is 4 inches less than three times its length. What is the perimeter of the rectangle in inches?
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Question 509055: One side of a triangle is half the longest side. The third side is 12 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 53 feet. Find all three sides!
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Question 780904: A concrete fence 7 ft. high and 210ft. long is to be painted on both sides.
a. what is the total area of the fence to be painted?
b. A galloon of a certain type of a paint will cover only 200 sq. ft. for the first coat,but on the second coat a galloon of the same paint will cover 300 sq. ft. How many galloons of paint should be bought if the fence is to be given two coats of paint?
That's my question. I really don't know what formula will I use.
kindly explain it for me. :)
thank you, godbless :))
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Question 780999: find the perimeter of a triangular garden that measures 8 ft by x ft by (8x+5) ft
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Question 781064: Find one counterexample to show that this conjecture is false.
The difference of two integers is less than either integer.
I don't understand exactly what it means by that. I know the first part of the question, I just don't understand what it wants me to find a conjecture for.
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Question 781123: the two equal of an isosceles triangle are three inches more then the base. if the perimeter is at least 121 inches, describe the length of the base
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Question 781624: The field is 294 feet long. How long is the field if it is measured in yards?
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Question 781597: A circular grassy region with a 72ft diameter has a 8ft by 17ft rectangular pond in its center If a 2ft concrete border is added around the pond how many square feet of concrete will be laid?
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Question 781725: One side of triangle is one-fourth the longest side. The third side is 9 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 117 . Find all three sides.
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Question 781211: length of a dog run is 9 feet more than twice the width and the perimeter is 34 feet, what is the length and width
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