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Question 815075: Carol is tiling her roof. She tiles 235sq ft of the roof in 28 minutes.
How many square feet will Carol tile in 1 hour?
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Question 815173: A rectangular pool is 6 meters wide and 8 meters long. If you swim diagonally across the pool, how many meters would you be swimming?

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Question 815188: a square piece of paper is cut into six rectangle pieces
when the perimeter lengths of the six pieces are added together the result is 120cm what is the area of the square piece of paper
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Question 815228: If a farmer needs to enclose a rectangular space with a total area of 575 sq yd next to a cliff and the side next to the cliff does not need fencing, what is the least amount of fencing necessary to enclose this area?
Total fencing:_______________yd
Length parallel to th cliff:____________yd
Length perpendicular to th cliff:__________ yd
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Question 815345: In the coordinate plane, the points A(5,8),B(-2,-9),and C(-11,7) are reflected over the y-axis to the points A',B', and C',respectively. What are the coordinates of A',B', and C'?
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Question 815491: There were 1125 books sold last week at Sid's Bookstore Find the central angle measure 252� for the Self-Help slice Do not round.
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Question 815536: The width of a rectangular room is 3 feet less than the length. If the area of the room is 70 square feet, find the length and width of the room.
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Question 815519: a videotape plays 6.72 ft per minute for 2 hours at standard speed. It plays for 6 hours at extended long play speed. What is the rate of the tape at the slower speed?
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Question 815577: [ Find the area enclosed between two concentric circles of radii 6.3 cm and 8.4 cm. A third concentric circle is drawn outside the 8.4 cm circle so that the area enclosed between it and 8.4 cm circle is the same as that between the two inner circles. Find the radius of the third circle correct up to two decimal places. ]
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Question 815575: The sum of radii of two circles is 10.5 cm and the difference of their circumferences is 13.2 cm. Find the radii of the two circles.
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Question 815594: Eliza is in a hot air balloon that has just taken off and is now floating 14 meters above its launching point. Ofelia is standing on the ground 9 meters away from the launching point how far apart are Eliza and Ofelia.
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Question 815574: The sum of diameters of two circles is 112 cm and the sum of their areas is 5236 cm^2. Find the radii of the two circles.
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Question 815588: what is the area of a right triangle with a length of 20 units and a hypotenuse of 25units
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Question 815516: [ the length and width of a rectangle are 6m and 4m. when each dimension is increased by the same amount, the area of the new RECTANGLE is 50 squared meters. find the dimensions of the new rectangle to the nearest tenth of a meter. ]
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Question 815647: If I have a 20 foot pole and want to hand Xmas lights from the top to the bottom with an angle of 15 degrees, how long does the strand need to be? Looking for formula as well.
Thanks in advance.

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Question 815661: the length of a rectangular garden is 7 feet longer than its width. the gardens perimeter is 186. find the length of the garden.
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Question 815744: Jackson says he Has an odd number of model cars. He has 6 cars on one shelf and 8 cars on another shelf.is Jackson correct.?explain
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Question 815828: Mark has a large pizza. What is the maximum number of pieces That can be made by using 12 cuts?

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Question 815942: I am really stuck can some please help me with this word problem..Another rectangular piece of sheet metal is 2 in. longer than it is wide. A square piece 3 in. on a side is cut from each corner. The sides are then turned up to form an uncovered box of volume 765 in.^3. Find the dimensions of the original piece of metal.
Thank you :)
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Question 816195: how to find the diagonals of a rhombus with area
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Question 816252: two dice are thrown. determine the number of ways the indicated score can be obtained At least 6
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Question 816289: A rectangular pool is 21 meters wide and 28 meters long. If you swim diagonally across the pool, how many meters would you be swimming?
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Question 816281: One base of a trapozoud is one smaller than twice the second base. The height is three less than the smaller base. If the area of the trapozoid is 44 find the length and the width
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Question 816466: [ The area of a circle is 27.5 square inches. To the nearest tenth of a square inch, find the area of the square that is circumscribed [around the outside] of this circle. ]
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Question 816493: If the angle between each blade of the wind turbine is the same and each blade has a length of 30 meters, find the distance between the tips of two blades. Round the answer to the nearest hundredth, if necessary.

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Question 816515: what is 1 foot less than 2/3 of a 15 foot elevation
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Question 816186: how to find the diagonals of a rhombus with area and side
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Question 816221: what is the length of the diagonals of a rhombus with side65cm and area 2016cm
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Question 816628: Write an equation in point slope form for the perpendicular bisector of a segment with endpoints M(-5,4), N(1,-2)
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Question 816626: a bicycle will is round the140 for 1minit if wil radius60cm that what is the distants by 2hour
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Question 816797: A retail store can sell 20 hard disk drives per week at a price of $400 each. The manager estimates that for each $10 reduction in price, she can sell two more drives each week.
a. Express the revenue function in terms of selling price.
b. What price will maximize revenue?

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Question 817008: [ how wide is a rectangular table with a length of 2/3 yard and an area of 1/2 square yard? ]
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Question 817203: a circular ground of radius 7 m has a path of width 7 m around it on its outside. the area of path is approximately equal to ?
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Question 817212: If one side of a square is increased by 4 inches and an adjacent side is multiplied by 4,the perimeter of the resulting rectangle is 3 times the perimeter of the square. find the side of the original square.
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Question 817269: The equation x3 + 3x2 = 4 models the volume of a shipping container where x is the width. Graph the equation to find the width of the box.

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Question 817347: find the number of gallons of water in a fish tank that is 36 in. long and 24 in. wide and is filled to a depth of 16 in.
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Question 817482: if a right triangle has short sides 20cm and 30 cm what is the length of the longest side?

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Question 817539: I have a lot 100 feet by 80 feet. A fence is going around the lot. How many feet of fencing will I need?
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Question 817655: A stained glass window in a church is in the shape of a square. The perimeter of the square is 7 times the length of a side decreased by 12 meters. Find the length of a side of the window
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Question 817863: The base of the triangle exceeds the height by 8 meters. If the area is 42 meters, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 817832: Can someone please help with this question:
A rectangular piece of sheet metal has a length that is 4 in. less than twice the width. A square piece 2 in. on a side is cut from each corner. The sides are then turned up to form an uncovered box of volume 256 in^3. Find the length and width of the original piece of metal.
the answer I cam up with was way off.
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Question 817911: The height of a triangle sail is 5 feet more than twice it's base. If the sail is made of 125 sq ft of fabric what is height and base?
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