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Question 812273: A 25-inch television has a screen that is 15 inches high. How wide is the screen?
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Question 812303: John owns a hot dog stand. He has found that his profit is represented by the equation P(x) = [ (-1)x^2 + 62x + 77 ],
with P being profits and x the number of hot dogs sold. How many hot dogs must he sell to earn the most
profit?
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Question 812319: The perimeter of a rectangle is 48cm. The width is one third the length. Determine the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 811683: The perimeter of a rectangular yard is 204 feet. If the width of the yard is 45 feet what is the length of the yard?
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Question 812461: The number of inmates N (measured in thousands) in federal and state prisons can be approximated by the equation N=-2.02x^2 + 77.89x + 743, where x is the number of years since 1990. In what year was the number of inmates expected to be 1,280,390?
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Question 812800: Find the length and width of a rectangular ice cream sandwich if its volume is 9 in cubed.
Height = 3/4
Width=x
Length= x+ 4
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Question 812844: Sarah is framing a 5in by 7in photo with a frame that's 3in wide. What's the frames area in square inches?
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Question 812562: The area of a rug is 48 square feet and the width is 2 feet less than the length, find the width of the carpet. I know the answer is 6 feet. BUT HOW DO YOU GET 6???
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Question 812878: A man wants to make a garden in front of his house. He wants the perimeter to be 30 meters. What should be the dimension to the nearest whole number of the garden in order to give the biggest area

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Question 812922: How to solve:
If triangular area is 160ft^2 and the height is 4ft more than it's base. Find the base.
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Question 812963: a man is putting a fence around his rectangular yard. His lot measures 13.5 feet long and 47.75 feet wide. The fencing comes in 50 ft. how many rolls will he need
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Question 813209: hypotenuse of a right triangle is 8 ft less than three times the shorter leg, longer leg is 8 feet more than twice the shorter leg, find length of all three sides of triangle ?
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Question 813299: In an isosceles triangle two sides are equal, the third side is two less than twice the length of two equal sides. The perimeter is 38. What are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 813366: Julie and Eric row their boat (at a constant speed) 32 miles downstream for 4 hours, helped by the current. Rowing at the same rate, the trip back against the current takes 8 hours. Find the rate of the current.
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Question 813391: The diameter of a water tower tank is 13ft and its height is 12ft What is the volume of water that can be stored in the tank? Use the value 3.14 for pi
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Question 813531: 5. The measure of the largest angle of a triangle is 80 more than the measure of the smallest angle, and the measure of the remaining angle is 10 more than the measure of the smallest. Find the measure of each angle.
How do you solve this types of problems?
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Question 812855: The area of the room is 120 square feet.how long are the sides
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Question 813563: if f(x)=2x-4 and g(x)=x^2-4x, find g(2).

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Question 813572: A painter leans a ladder against the side of a house to paint the windows. The base of the ladder is four feet from the house and makes a 65 degree angle with the ground. How long is the ladder?

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Question 801927: Hal has a board similar to this one. He needs to cut it into pieces, with each piece measuring � foot. How many pieces can he cut from the board? The first rectangle is 12 feet.

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Question 813811: Write the equation in standard form for the circle passing through(0,7/2)centered at the origin.
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Question 813835: Theresa who is 1 m tall cast a shadow 1.2 m same time flagpole near her casts a shadow 18 m long. how tall is is the flapole?

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Question 813908: Mr.sanchez has 16 feet of the fencing to put around the rectangular garden.he wants the garden to have the greatest possible area.how long should the sides of the garden be?
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Question 814078: A stone is projected vertically upward from a platform that is 15 feet high at a rate of 106 ft per second. When will it reach its maximum height?
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Question 814105: A sqaure and a rectangle have equal areas. if the rectangle is 36cm by 25cm, what is the perimeter of the square?
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Question 814120: what is the length of the segment with endpoints
A(1,7) and B(-3,-1)?
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Question 814124: I have a piece of wood 14" long x 2 1/2" wide. I need to make a 32 degree cut out on the 14" side length . How do I come up with how calculate my measurement?
thank You: Curtis e-mail crkai@att.net
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Question 814199: Terri wants to make a triangle on her driveway with one side 8ft, one side 17 ft, and one side 8ft. Write an indirect proof to show that Terri�s design is not possible. So far I have that she can't make a RIGHT triangle because of the Pythagorean theorem because a^2 +b^2 = c^2 and 64 + 289 =/= 64, but I'm not sure how to prove it wouldn't work for other types of triangles.
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Question 814236: Rajesh owns a plot of rectangular shape He has fenced it with a wire of length 750 m. The length 750m. The length of the plot exceeds the breadth by 5 m. Find the length and breadth of the plot.
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Question 814348: the length of a rectangle is 2 more than 3 times the width. if the perimeter is 36 feet, find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 814278: Nancy runs around a triangular park of sides 60 m, 50 m, 90 m and Rich runs around a rectangular park with length 35 m and breadth 15 m. Calculate the distance covered by them.Who covers more distance?
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Question 814536: The perimeter of a square field is 324 yards. How long is each side?
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Question 814520: Angle C is the complement of angle A and the supplement of angle B. Additionally, the measure of angle A plus the measure of angle B equals 202 degrees. What is the number of degrees in the measure of angle C?

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Question 814519: A soccer field has a rectangular perimeter of 230 feet. The length of the field is twice as long as the width. What is the length of each side and width of each side?
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Question 814581: if PJ = 25,PO = 40,Find JO.
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Question 814570: If a square has a perimeter of 72 cm what is the length of each side ?

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Question 814608: a 60 cm piece of wire is bent to form a right triangle.If the hypotenuse is 26 cm, find the length of the longer of the two legs of the right triangle.
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Question 814688: The gas tank of a truck is a cylinder 3.5 ft long with a diameter of 1.5 ft. At the gas station, a pump pours gas at the rate of 5 ft^3 per minute. How many minutes does it take to fill the empty tank with that pump? use the value 3.14
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Question 814687: The gas tank of a truck is a cylinder 3.5 ft long with a diameter of 1.5 ft. At the gas station, a pump pours gas at the rate of 5 ft^3 per minute. How many minutes does it take to fill the empty tank with that pump? use the value 3.4
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Question 814692: round 1 minute and 14.2 seconds to the nearest minute?
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Question 814728: i need help in this problem The sides of an isosceles triangle are 27, 27, and 12yd long. What is the area of the triangle?
Do not round any intermediate computations, and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 814730: I need help with this problem The sides of an isosceles triangle are 27, 27, and 12yd long. What is the area of the triangle?
Do not round any intermediate computations, and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 814837: If 3000 sq. ft. was in the shape of a rectangle what would the width and length be of the rectangle?
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