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Question 796771: an object is thrown from a height of 1200ft with an upward velocity of 40ft/sec. How long does it take to hit the ground?
Find the difference in the time it takes to hit the ground if the object was dropped instead of thrown

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Question 796773: Far-west construction has just built a new auto parts store. They plan to add a concrete sidewalk that would wrap around the perimeter of the store and would be 4ft wide at all points. The store is rectangular shaped and had a measurement of 75ft by 32ft. what will the area of the sidewalk be
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Question 796887: A monument consists of two cubical blocks, the smaller resting on the larger. The total height of the mmonument is 5 feet, and the area of the exposed surface is 61 square feet. Find the dimensions of the blocks.
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Question 797185: The base of triangle is 7cm more than its height. If the area is 294 square centimeters, Find the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 797588: Points A (-2, 4) , B (1, 3) , C (4,-1) and D form a parallelogram. What are the coordinates?
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Question 797588: Points A (-2, 4) , B (1, 3) , C (4,-1) and D form a parallelogram. What are the coordinates?
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Question 797706: You are constructing a copy of AB. You choose a point C as one of the endpoints for the new line segment. What is the next step in the construction?
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Question 797703: The diagram shows AB, CD, and GE. Which statement can be proven true from the diagram?
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Question 797701: The height of triangle is 4m more than twice the length of the base. The area of the triangle is 24m2. Find the height of the triangle?
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Question 797808: Hello,
Could you please help me with this problem? Please show me step by step instructions for solving this problem so I will understand it.
The problem is:
Find the area of the walkway (36 inches wide) that will be installed around a circular jacuzzi with a diameter of 6 feet. Round your intermediate steps and answer to two decimals.
I would appreciate your help with this question. Need answer asap.
Thank you
Robin
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Question 798401: What would be the answer for this question? One side of the right triangle is 28 feet high since the roof is that high. Then lets say if you put the ladder 5 feet out from the house, what would the hypotenuse be??
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Question 798439: A 40-inch length of wire is cut in two. One of the pieces is bent to form a square and the other is bent to form a rectangle three times as long as wide. If the combined area of the square and the rectangle is 55 3/4 inches, where was the wire cut? There are two places where the wire can be cut. One of them is a fraction answer.
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Question 798419: What is the perimeter of a square if the sides of the square are 54 yards in length? Answer in feet please.
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Question 798481: The length of a rectangular solar panel is 11inches shorter than 4 times the width. The perimeter is 198 inches. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 798513: Calculate the area of a square if s=52 m
Area of square= s^2=(52)^2 =2704
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Question 798529: please answer my question with solutions if a circle of radius 4 centimeters has a cord og length 3 centimeters find the central angle that is opposite this cord(to the nearest degree.thanks
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Question 798570: george ferris constucted the original ferris wheel at the chicago midway in 1893.the circumference of this ferris wheel was 210m. what was it radius???
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Question 798603: you have a rectangular yard that measures 16 feet long by 14 feet wide it is covered u grass except for in the center where there is a circular fountain with a diameter of 4 ft what is the area of the grass portion of your yard round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 798726: The measure of an angle is 18 degrees less than the measure of the supplement. What is the supplement?
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Question 798783: A room is seven ft longer than it is wide. If the perimeter is 46 ft, what are the dimensions of the room?
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Question 798970: the measure of one angle of a quadrilateral is 11 degrees greater than the smallest angle; the third angle is 15 degrees greater than twice the smallest angle; and the fourth angle is 24 degrees greater than the smallest angle.find the four measures of the four angles of the quadrilaterals
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Question 798999: I can't somehow understand this.
Question:
Consider a square room that has an area of 256 square feet.
The room has a tile floor.Each side has 24 square tiles.What is the length (in inches) of each tile?
What is the area of each tile?
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Question 799050: If the side of a cube increases in size by 9%, then by what percentage does the surface area increase?
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Question 799050: If the side of a cube increases in size by 9%, then by what percentage does the surface area increase?
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Question 799332: Part of the park is a square garden, the dimensions of the garden are 50ft by 200 ft. There is a diagonal brick pathway crossing the garden. The pathway is 6 bricks wide. Estimate the number of bricks in the pathway
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Question 799371: Oil painting frame- The perimeter of the ornate frame of an oil painting is 146in. The width is 5in. Less than the length. Find the demotions
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Question 799464: A square pan has a area of 529 cm squared. How long is each side of the pan?
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Question 799783: Chris wants to make a pair of raised beds for her garden. She wants the beds to share a side, and have identical dimensions. If she has 70 feet of wood, what length x will maximize the combined area of the beds.
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Question 800289: A square and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. Each side of the triangle is 5m less than twice the length of each side of the square. How long is each side of the square? Please please please help me! :(
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Question 800430: the fence around Anne's garden forms a right triangle. The length of one leg is 5 meters, and the hypotenuse is 13 meters. What is the length of the other section of fence?
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Question 799976: I fenced off a space in my back yard for a new puppy .the perimeter of the rectangular space is 6 meters if two opposite sides are each 2meters long what are the lengths of each of the other two sids
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Question 800666: I need help with this problem plz
two angles of a triangle have the same measure and the third angle is 1/4 the size of the other two. find the measure of each angle.
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Question 800717: Find the value of a stack of wood 6m long, 4m wide and 3m high, if the cost of wood is sh 50 000 per cubic metre.
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Question 800731: a space craft takes 4s for 42km, find its average speed
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Question 800890: If the arc length shown in blue is 32.5 inches, then to the nearest hundredth of a radian is _____.
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Question 801123: Suppose that the width of a cube is twice the width of a second cube. How do the volumes of the cubes compare? why?
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Question 801123: Suppose that the width of a cube is twice the width of a second cube. How do the volumes of the cubes compare? why?
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Question 801181: d=68ft, t=34sec r=? ft/sec
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Question 801293: the length of a rectangular garden is 9 feet. if 26 feet of fencing are required to fence the garden, find the width of the garden.
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Question 801700: a rectangular plot of land is 50 yards shorter than 4 times the width. find the length if the perimeter is 900 yards
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Question 801765: The diagonals of a rhombus differ by 4. If its perimeter is 40, find its area.
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Question 801763: How many circles of radius 9 cm can be cut from a rectangular sheet 370 cm by 105 cm?
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Question 801818: Jennifer wants toc close off a rectangular are in here lawn so that she can leave her dog outside. She buys enough fencing to close off 252 square feet of lawn
If the length of the enclosure is 21 feet, what is the width

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Question 801912: LIght travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. The star nearest the sun is Proxima Centauri, in the constellation Centaurus, whose distance from the earth is 4 light years. What is the distance to Proxima Centauri in miles?
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