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Question 806099: please help me to solve ihis question: a 5m wide lawn is cultivated all along ihe outside of rectangular plot measuring 80m*40m. what is the total area of the lawn?

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Question 806395: Please help me with this problem:
David wants to place a fence around a semi-circular flower garden. The garden has a radius of 4m. What length of fence does he needs to buy?
Thank you.
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Question 806716: A rectangular area borders on a stream. A farmer has 500 feet of fence and intends to use it all to fence in the other three sides. Write a function for the area of the region in terms of one of its sides, x. There is a picture that shows a rectangle with one side against a stream. The shorter pair of sides are labeled x and the long side isn't labeled but is parallel to the stream.
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Question 806762: The measure of the largest angle of a triangle is 14 less than twice the measure of the smallest angle. The third angle measure is 2 more than the measure of the smallest angle. What is the measure of the smallest angle?
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Question 806898: Two angles are complimentary so there sum is 90 degrees. If the measure of the larger angles is 15 more than two times the smaller angle, find themeasure of the two angles
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Question 806908: The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 80 feet. The width is half the length increased by 3.7 feet. What are the dimensions of the pool?
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Question 807035: The length of a rectangle is 7 inches more than three times the width. The perimeter is 78 inches. Find the length and width.
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Question 807153: The ratio of angles of a triangle is 20:30:30. Find the measureof the smallest angle of the triangle
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Question 807458: Bob's back deck is 12 feet by 10 feet. He wants to make the new area 195 ft.^2 by adding the same dimension to each side. What are the new dimensions?
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Question 807457: A triangle has side lengths 12.5, 30, and 32.5. Is it a right triangle
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Question 807454: A rock is dropped from the top of a tall building, 382 feet high . The path , in feet , is given by h(t)= -16t^2 + 382. How long after the rock is thrown is it 100 from the ground?
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Question 807564: Find the greatest common factor of the following monomials:
3u^4v^6 36u^6v^3
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Question 807607: A picture that measures 14 cm by 14 cm is enlarged to 5 times its area.What are the new dimensions to the nearest tenths place?

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Question 807661: if you work 3 hours and earn 12,5, and 7 dollars in tips how much money did you earn total explain and work please

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Question 807621: I am not sure how to solve a problem like this. I need help with the set up and the steps. Here is the problem: A rectangular garden is 10 feet by 12 feet. A rectangular sidewalk 1 feet wide is built around the outside. What is the area of the sidewalk? (draw a picture) I drew the picture but I am still lost.
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Question 808194: The base of a triangle sail is 4x feet and its height is 3x + 10 feet. Write a binomial in terms of x for the area of the sail.
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Question 808727: The length of a rectanglar pool is 6 meters less than twice the width. If the pool's perimeter is 126 meters, what are the dimensions?
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Question 808846: the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 1 cm longer than the longer leg. The shorter leg is 7cm shorter than the longer leg. Find the length of the longer leg.
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Question 808854: The image of a ribbon is 10 times the ribbons actual size and has a width of 1 cm
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Question 809005: The length of a rectangle is 3yd less than double the width, and the area of the rectangle is 44yd^2. Find the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 809047: A rectangle is 3 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 80 cm. Find its dimensions.
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Question 809246: Amanda used the following ordered pairs to graph the function t=5s+2 Which of the following is not an ordered pair of the form (s,t) for this function: (0,2), (4,22), (7, 1), or (2, 12)? Explain your answer.
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Question 809223: 18x-22=22x+2
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Question 809392: 1. The length of a rectangle is 5 inches less than 2 times the width. The perimeter is 44 inches. Find the length and the width.
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Question 809596: If the radius of a circle is increased by 2 cm, the area will increase by 32πcm^2. what is the radius of the circle?
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Question 809625: could you please help me solve this problem : The length of a rectangle is 6 times longer than the width. The perimeter is 42. what is the width ?
This is what I have tried: Perimeter = 2l + 2w
2(6*w)+2w=42
12+2w+2w+42

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Question 809626: Suppose a greeting card is 5 inches long at its base. About how tall should the card be in order for it to be a Golden Rectangle?

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Question 809715: The formula for the area of a circle is A=3.14r2. Find the inverse of the function. Use the inverse to find the radius of the circle whose area is 36 square centimeters.
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Question 809979: find the center and radius of the circle circumscribed about the right triangle with vertices (1,1), (1,4) and (7,4).
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Question 810074: A can of deck stain will cover 250 squared feet. How many cans of stain should be purchased in order to stain a rectangular deck that measures 60 ft. by 8ft.?
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Question 810221: is this a triangle: m < A=27, m < B=119, m < C=34?
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Question 810487: Two angles are supplementary. One is 44 degrees more than three time the other. Find the measures of the angles. Supplementary angles are angles whose sum is 180 degrees.
What is the measure of smaller angle? simplify
what is the measure of other angle? simplify
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Question 810153: the volume of a cubic storage box is 27 cubic inches. Find the length of a side of the box
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Question 810558: What is the distance between point P and point Q?

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Question 810755: A company sells type a insulin at $38.85 a vial and type B at $30.34
$2024.64 was colected for 60 vials
How many vial of each were sold?
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Question 810944: a picture that measures 4 inches by 6 inches is surrounded by a border uniform width. if the total area of the border and the frame is twice the area of the picture, how wide is the border?
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Question 811184: the height of a triangular sail is 6 yards less than twice the length of its base. if the area of the sail is 70 square yards, find the dimensions of the sail
The length of the base of the triangular sail is ___yards and its height is ___yards
((((PICTURE SHOWN )))))
Base is x
Leg is 2x-6
Hypotenuse is blank.
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Question 811373: An open box is made from a rectangular piece of cardboard whose length is twice the width, by cutting a 3 inch square from each corner and folding up the remaining sides. Find the dimensions of the box if the volume is 648 cubic inches
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Question 811605: if one quart of paint will cover 6,300 square inches, how many quarts will be required to paint 3000 cylinders?
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Question 811446: Mr Black is eccentric but rich. He wanted a piece of land. He asked the estate agent to find him a small plot of land but wanted it to be special. He wanted a triangle, with one corner a right angle. The area in square metres must be exactly 10 times the perimeter in metres. The perimeter must be less than 240m. All the side lengths must be integers(whole numbers). What were the dimensions of the plot?
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Question 811767: The width of a photo is 5cm less than the length. The area is 24cm^2.
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Question 811951: The length of the rectangle is one more than the width. If the dimensions are both decreased by 2 units, the area of the new rectangle is 30 sq. units less than the area of the original rectangle. Find the area of the original rectangle.
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Question 811977: The length of a rectangle exceed its width by 6 units. If each dimension is increased by 3 units, the area would be increased by 57 square units. Find the dimension of the rectangle
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