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Question 801942: If a piece of wire had a length of 69.37 feet and has a diameter 0.044913 inches what is the resistance of the piece of wire
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Question 801910: How many board feet are in a two-by-four (2'' by 4'') that is 10 feet long?
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Question 802377: a man is putting a fence around his rectangular yard. His lot measures 13.5 ft long, and 47.75 ft wide. The fencing comes in rolls that 50 ft long.
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Question 802423: 2. In triangle RST, the measure of angle T is 5 more than the measure of angle R, and the measure of angle S is 10 less than the measure of angle X. What is the measure of each angle?
3. In triangle JKL, the measure of angle K is four times the measure of angle J, and the measure of angle L is five times the measure of angle J. What is the measure of each angle?
4. In triangle XYZ, the measure of angle Z is 2 more than twice the measure of angle X, and the measure of angle Y is 7 less than twice the measure of angle X. What is the measure of each angle?
5. In triangle GHI, the measure of angle H is 20 more than the measure of G, and the measure of angle G is 8 more than the measure of angle I. What is the measure of each angle?
6. In triangle MNO, the measure of angle M is equal to the measure of angle N, and the measure of angle O is 5 more than three times the measure of angle N. What is the measure of each angle?
7. In triangle STU, the measure of angle U is half the measure of angle T, and the measure of angle S is 30 more than the measure of angle T. What is the measure of each angle?
8. In triangle PQR, the measure of angle P is equal to the measure of angle Q, and the measure of angle R is 24 less than the measure of angle P. What is the measure of each angle?
9. Write your own problems about measures of triangles.
DUE TOMORROW! PLEASE HELP!
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Question 802774: A square garden has an area of 138 meters squared. What are the approximate dimensions of the garden?
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Question 802904: If you enclose a rectangular garden using a side of a building as one side of the rectangle, what are the dimensions of the garden if it is to be the maximum area that you can enclose with 42 feet of fence?
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Question 802889: The perimeter of a rectangle swimming pool is 60m. The length of the pool is 4m more than the width. What is the width of the pool?
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Question 803061: The length of each side of a square is extended 5 cm. The area of the resulting square is 81 cm2. Find the length of a side of the original square.
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Question 803076: A rectangular room is 1.7 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 25 meters. Find the dimension of the room.

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Question 803107: A room has a rectangular prism shape. It is 8.5m long, 7m wide and 3m high. Find the amount of paint needed to paint the room (including the ceiling)if 200mL/ m2 of paint is required.
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Question 803353: The length of a rectangle is less than double the width, and the area of the rectangle is . Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 803369: I need to know how many feet/ yards across is a square acre lot
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Question 803311: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive even integers. The perimeter is 22cm shorter than 4 times the length of the largest side. Find the lengths of the three sides, please?
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Question 803531: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive even integers. The perimeter is 22cm shorter than 4 times the length of the longest side. Find the lengths of all three sides.
I tried:
P=a+b+c
22=x+x+2+x+4
22=3x + 6
-6 -6
16/3=3x/3
that's as far as I got. I don't get it.
Please help,
thank you
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Question 803530: A square has a 40 cm diagonal. How long is each sine of the square. Round to the nearest tenth of a centimeter.
So far i have tried the Pythagorean theorem : a^2+b^2=40^2
40^2 = 1600 then since its a triangle both all the sides will be equal so i divided 1600 by 2 and get 800 i sqrt and got 28.2 but it doesnt equal. So can you explain to me how to do it and as well as give me the answer.
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Question 803651:
A church steeple casts a shadow 105 ft. long, and at the same time a 6.0-ft. post casts a shadow 5.0 ft long.
How high is the steeple?
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Question 803796: Show that of all the rectangles inscribed in a circle of fixed radius, the square has the largest area.

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Question 803867: The length of a box is x inches less than 2 times its width. Give a formula that expresses the lemgth of the box
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Question 804066: A tree 50 feet high casts a shadow 48 feet long. Find the measure of the angle of elevation of the sun.
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Question 804084: the length of a rectangular garden is 15 time it's width. You used 160 ft of fencing to surround the garden. How much area do you have for planting?
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Question 804458: the hypotenuse of a triangle is √15 ft. and one leg measures 2 ft. Find the length of the other leg.
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Question 804524: hi!
so this is a unit for quadratics.
The question is,
A right triangle has a perimter of 120 cms.
one side measures 24 cm.
determine the length of the other side and of the hypoteneuse.
a little lost. i can find easily if i have another side measurement.. but not for this.
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Question 804621: Given the general identity tan X = sin x/ cos x, which equation relating the acute angles, A and C, of a right ∆ABC is true?
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Question 804629: Harry is building a house with a sloping roof. If the roof is 44 feet long and 10 feet high, what is the angle that the roof makes with the horizontal?

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Question 804627: What are the lengths of the legs of a right triangle in which one acute angle measures 19� and the hypotenuse is 15 units long?
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Question 804624: Which value of x solves the equation cos x� = sin (20� + x�), where
0 < x < 90?
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Question 804624: Which value of x solves the equation cos x� = sin (20� + x�), where
0 < x < 90?
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Question 804687: Timothy has a circular pen with the radius of 7 feet he plans to double the size of the pen what will be the circumference of the pen?
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Question 804847: A train leaves Philadelphia traveling at 70 mph. One hour later a second train leaves traveling at 80 mph. How long will it take for the trains to be 520 miles apart?
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Question 804839: The perimeter of a square that is 12 ft 5 in. I do not know how I go about solving it.
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Question 804856: A mix of coffee is created by blending $7 a pound coffee with $4 a pound coffee. If the mix is to be worth $144, and there are 24 pounds total, how many pounds of each should be in the mix?
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Question 805103: a 40 cm square handkerchief has a boarder 4 cm wide around it. what is the area of the boarder?
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Question 805201: What are the lenghts of the legs of a right triangle in which an acute angle measures 19� and hypotenuse is 15 units long?
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Question 805232: The length and width of a rectangle are in ratio of 7:3. He perimeter of the rectangle is 60 inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 805246: The length of Marshall's poster is 2 times its width. If the perimeter is 72 inches, what is the area of the poster?
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Question 805230: The length and width of a rectangle are in ratio of 7:3. He perimeter of the rectangle is 60 inches. What are the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 805386: If an object is projected vertically upward from ground level with an initial velocity of 280 ft/sec, then its distance s above the ground after t seconds is given by
s = −10t2 + 280t.
For what values of t will the object be more than 1710 feet above the ground?
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Question 805559: The medians AD, BE and CF of a triangle ABC are of lengths 18 cm, 24 cm and 30 cm respectively. The area in cm2 of the triangle is ?
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Question 805645: The perimeter of a rectangle is 22ft the length is 3ft longer than the width. I need to know how to write a system of linear equation and then solve the resulting system.
X will be the length and y will be the width.
I know P=2L+2W
the perimeter is already given which is 22
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Question 805676: if i have a yard the i want to do an underground pet fence but the kit only has a roll of 200 meters, how big of a square would that make? (in footage)roughly
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Question 805917: what will it cost to tile a rectangular floor measuring 225 feet by 28 feet if the tile cost $20 per square foot?
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Question 806103: If it takes two men two hours to dig a hole 3 metres long, 3 metres wide and 3 metres deep, how long would it take the same two men to dig a hole 6 metres long, 6 metres wide and 6 metres deep if they worked at the same rate?
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Question 806117: a fence has 25 posts at equal distances apart. the fence is 72 metre long. how far apart are the posts
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