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Question 789546: How do I find the dimensions the floor of a rectangular shed is 7feet longer than it is wide and has an area of 120 square feet
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Question 789739: If the base of a triangle is increased by 20% and its height is doubled, by what percent will its area be increased?
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Question 789860: if two opposite side of a square are each increased by 3centimeters, and the other sides are each decreased by 2centimeters , the area is increased by 8 square centimeters. find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 790228: A 30-in chain is cut into two pieces. If one piece is 6inches longer than the other, how long is each piece?
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Question 790250: A rectangular piece of cardboard measures 18 cm by 15 cm. What is the perimeter of the piece of cardboard?

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Question 790302: A football is approximately 1 foot long.
Football field is 120 yards, 360 feet long.
If I wanted to make a model of a football field that is 36cm long, how big would a football in this scale model have to be?

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Question 790675: The measure of the supplement of an angle is 20 degrees more than three times the measure of the original angle. Find the measurements of the angles.
This is the only problem I cannot seem to figure out on my homework. Please, please help me!!! thanks in advanced :)
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Question 790690: The measures of an angle and it's compliment differ by 22 degrees find the measures of the angles.
I'm having a lot of trouble with this problem, could you please, please help me out? Thanks in advanced :)
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Question 790747: please help me solve this word problem. A model house has a scale of 2 inches : 3 feet. if the real house is 28 feet wide, then how wide is the model house?
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Question 790401: An area for the press was supposed to be shaped as an equilateral triangle with a fence around it. Unfortunately Mr Spendalot's nephew was put in charge of this and he didn't know how to measure. He seems to have put 3 metres less on one side, an extra four metres onto another side that wasn't supposed to be there and the longest side now has double the amount of fencing on it than it was supposed to.
To Mr Spendalot dismay the triangle was a much less pleasing right angled triangle now and has to be quickly changed back.
By drawing the new triangle and using Pythagoras' theorem find the dimensions of the original triangle to the nearest cm.
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Question 791692: in a school of 1,302 students, 798 are girls. what is the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls?
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Question 791699: a sport center has 12 gates, 5 are on the west side, and 7 are on the east side. in how many different ways can a person enter by a west gate and leave by an east gate?
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Question 792236: the length of a field is 3 times its width if the perimeter is 64m what is the width of the field?
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Question 792346: The height of a triangle is 13 ft. What lengths of the base will make the area at least 208 ft^2?
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Question 792362: find the dimension of a triangle whose length is a foot longer than twice its width and perimeter is 44
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Question 792374: The lengths of the edges of a cube are increasing at a rate of 5 ft/min. At what rate is the surface area changing when the edges are 13 ft long?
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Question 792706: Please help me solve this problem in Geometry.
A metal washer 4 cm in diameter is pierced with a 1.75 cm hole. What is the surface area of the washer in inches?
Thank you.
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Question 792712: Please help me with my Geometry assignment.
here's the problem.
A piece of wire is enclosed in a shape of a square whose area is 169 sq cm. it is then reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm. find the area of the rectangle in square inches.
Thank you.
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Question 792722: Please help me with this geometry problem.
A certain city block is in the form of a parallelogram. two of its sides are each 425 ft long, the other two sides are each 228 ft long. if the distance between the first pair of sides is 130 ft, find the area of the land and perimeter.
thank you.

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Question 792948: if the volume of the box is to be 392 cubic meters, what is the original size of the cardboard
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Question 792975: The length of a rectangle is 5inches more than the width. The perimeter is 34inches. Find the length and the width.
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Question 793099: A Flag measure 490 feet by 190 feet. Find its area.
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Question 793152: A rectangle has one side that is 13 inches long and another side that is 1 foot long. Find the perimeter of the rectangle. Write your answer as a fraction using feet. I tried converting 13 inches to 1 foot, 1 inch, but I don't know how to put it as a fraction and if I actually did the right method.

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Question 793165: The perimeter of a rectangle is 110 feet. Find the length and width if the width is 5 less than the length.
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Question 793256: eli designed a rectangular garden with length of 5 meters less than twice its width. if the perimeter of the garden is 50 meters, find the dimensions of the garden.
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Question 793305: Andy is building a model train. The real train has a wheel diameter of 33 inches, a length of 20 feet, a width of 10 feet, and a height of 12 feet. If his model has a wheel diameter of 3 inches, what does the length need to be?
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Question 793872: A 24 feet long iron pipe has 20 kgs of weight. I want to balance this pipe from the point which is 3 feet from one end side and 21 feet at another end. so How much weight should I put on small end to balance it ?
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Question 793756: How do I calculate the length of the border of a triangular pond (we are studying pond borders)? I need to find an equation to calculate how many slabs are needed for the border, but I don't know how to handle the 3 corners of the triangle pond. Thanks a lot for your help??
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Question 794279: The perimeter of the rectangle is 120 units. Find the length of side AB .
AD is 4x+1
DC is 3x-3
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Question 794681: The perimeter of a basketball court is 84 meters and the length is 6 meters longer than twice the width. What is the length and width?
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Question 794792: From the tip of a shadow cast by a vertical object such as a tree, the angle of elevation of the top of the object is the same as the angle of elevation of the sun. what would the angle be if a 7m tall tree casts a shadow of 18m ?
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Question 795101: Please help me solve this problem:
a cow is tied to one corner of a 22 foot by 36 foot barn in the middle of a large grassy field. the rope is 50 feet long. over what area can the cow graze? (she cant go inside the barn, and there isnt any grass in there anyways.)

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Question 795277: the width of a triangle i 3 inches less than its length, and the area is 108 square inches.what are the length and width of the rectangle?
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Question 795281: A rectangular tank has a base 60cm by 20cm. A solid pyramid with a square base of sides 10cm each and height 27cm is placed inside the tack. The tank is than filled with water until it just covers the pyramid. If the pyramid is removed calculate the fall in the level of water in the tank.
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Question 795236: two buses leave a terminal at the same time.one heads due east at 25kph and one heads due north at 40kph how far a part are two buses after two hours?

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Question 795401: Use this information for questions 3, 4, and 5. Your school is painting the shop room. It measures 30 feet by 100 feet and has a ceiling that is 12 feet tall. Paint costs $14.75 and a gallon covers 400 feet.
What is the wall area of the room? Write the number only.
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Question 795512: the height of a righta regular class room has a perimeter of 28 m and area of 48m square. find the dimension of the classroom.

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Question 795702: how to express the area of a circle in terms of diameter

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Question 795798: "a contractor is designing one side of one-story office building to be 70 feet in length. the windows are each 5 feet long and will be placed 6 feet apart and 5 feet from the end of the building wall. how many windows can the contractor design?"
Note: I know the answer. What I really want to know is how to proceed to get to the answer.
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Question 795866: What is the volume of your room in cubic meters if it is rectangular and is 18 feet long by 10 feet wide by9.5 feet high? (One inch is exactly 2.54 cm)
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Question 796107: Can the measurements 3.1 meters, 2 meters, and 2.5 meters be the lengths of the sides of a triangle? Write Yes or No.
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Question 796212: the base of a parallelogram is 9ft more than the height. if the area of the parallelogram is 52ftsquared what is the base and the height.

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Question 796497: A 25 foot rope is cut into two pieces. One is 5 1/4 longer than the other one. How Long is the shorter piece? HELP
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