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Question 821005: The area of a rectangle is 162 feet squared. If the length is twice the width, what is the length?
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Question 821059: If your yard is 6 feet wide and requires 108 pieces of sod that are cut into 1 foot squares, how long is it?
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Question 821108: [ A solid wood cube 1 ft on an edge, was sawed into eight smaller congruent cubes. The smaller cubes were then reassembled to form the longest possible rectangular prism. What is the percent change in surface area? (If you can, Please show a step by step solution) ]
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Question 820825: Rick's bottle of cough syrup is 3/4 full. He gives 1/6 of the medication remaining in the bottle to his daughter. What fraction of the whole bottle of cough syrup did Rick give his daughter?
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Question 821232: if the square is 900cm2.what is the perimeter of the square?

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Question 821246: A circular table is painted yellow with red square. In the middle, the radius of the tabletop is 6x. the side length of the red square is 3x. what is the area of the yellow part of the tabletop? write your answer in factored form.
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Question 821327: The smallest angle in a triangle is 1/2 the size of the largest. The middle angle is 25 less than the largest. Find all three angles.
Thank you
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Question 821328: the entire length of a garden hose that is 60 meters is stretched diagonally across a rectangular yard. if the with of the yard is 34 meters,what is the length of the yard,to the nearest tenth
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Question 821337: how many square metres of dug is required to fill a triangular flower bed, whose base is 35m and height is 8m?
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Question 821427: Patti has two solutions. One is 27% acid the other is 39% acid. How much of each solution should be mixed together to make 9 liters of a solution that is 29% acid?
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Question 821352: You are creating a deck with an area of 120 square feet. The length is eight feet less than twice the width. What should the dimensions be?
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Question 821621: a rectangular garden has width w and length 1.5w. the area of the garden is 216 square feet . find the amount of fencing required to enclose the garden
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Question 821626: the backyard of a neighbor's house is rectangular, and its length is 5 feet more than its width. if the area of the yard is 500 square feet, how much fencing would be required to enclose the yard
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Question 821637: the base of a triangle is four times its height.the area of the triangle is 98 square centimeters . find the dimensions of the triangle
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Question 821640: a gardener wishes to use 600 feet of fencing to enclosd a rectangular region and subdivide the region into two smaller rectangles . the total enclosed area is 15,000 square feet. find the dimensions of the enclosed region
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Question 820768: If the length of the American flag is 1.8 yards, find the
height
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Question 820691: Two picture frames have the same area of 96 inches squared but different perimeters. What could the perimeters of the two frames be?
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Question 821684: A rocket is fired upward with an initial velocity of 168 ft/s. Using the formula h = rt-16t^2 determine when the rocket is 360 ft high and when does it crash.
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Question 821415: 1. a triangle is 24 feet , 7 yards, 132 inches and what is the perimeter ? & 2. the sum of four consective odd numbers is 216 . Find all four numbers . (I NEED THE HELP NOW )
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Question 821677: a rectangular plot, 4 meters by 8 meter, is to be used for a garden. the owner decides to put a pavement of uniform width inside the entire borders so that 12 square meters of the plot is left for flowers. How wide should the pavement be?
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Question 821867: The length of a garden is 20 yards more than its width. The area is 300 square yards. What are the dimensions? This is on a worksheet but my teacher didn't teach us how to do this. Help?
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Question 821865: The length of a garden is 20 yards more than its width. The area is 399 square yards. What are the dimensions? This is on a worksheet but my teacher didn't yeah us how to do theis. Help?
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Question 821977: sixteen students went on a week-long hiking trip. They bought with them 360 specially baked,protein-rich, cookies. What is the ratio of cookies to students?
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Question 822055: You are to design a fountain for the garden of one of Emily�s customers.
� The fountain will have a cylindrical base with a cone on top.
� The cylindrical base will have a diameter of 1 m.
� The fountain is to be made of concrete.
� The entire fountain is to be coated with protective paint.
a) Make a sketch of your design, showing all
dimensions.
b) How much concrete is needed to make the
fountain?
c) What is the surface area that needs to be
painted?
d) Concrete costs $100/m3. Each litre of
protective paint costs $17.50 and covers
5 m2. Find the total cost of the materials
needed to make the fountain.
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Question 821163: Whill radius 14cm then how many round for 44m distance
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Question 821633: the perimeter of a rectangle is 102 inches , and the length of the diagonal is 39 inches. find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 822228: what is the slope of the line that passes through the points (-4,2) and (4,2)
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Question 822142: An object 3.3 feet tall casts a shadow that is 9.9 feet long. How long in feet would the shadow be for an object which is 18.3 feet tall?
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Question 822244: A bundle of hardwood flooring contains 14 1/2 ft2 and costs $39.90. How much will it cost buy flooring for the kitchen and family room which contains 545 ft2? You should buy 5% extra to account for waste.
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Question 822251: The math club is selling pizza and lemonade to raise money for a field trip. the trip will cost $450
If they sell pizza for $1 per slice for and lemonade$2 a bottle and sold 190 items. How many of each did they sell?
The sum of 2 numbers is 87. the first number is 3 more than twice the second number.
2x+3y=12
X=y+4
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Question 822143: a piece of wire 20 ft long is cut into 2 pieces so that the sum of the squares of the length of each piece is 202 . find the length of each piece
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Question 822277: Rewrite the following linear equation in slope-intercept form. Write your answer with no spaces. y-5=3(x+1)
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Question 822277: Rewrite the following linear equation in slope-intercept form. Write your answer with no spaces. y-5=3(x+1)
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Question 822380: If 6m = 156, then m = what.
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Question 822614: if (X+5)*(X+3)= 99cm^2 what is x
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Question 822687: A food company distributes its tomato soup in two cans of different sizes. for the large can, the diameter has being increased by 30% and its height remains the same. By what percentage does the volume of can increase from the smaller can to the larger can?
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Question 822860: If James has a cylindrical bottle that is 6 inches tall and has a 2-inch radius. How much taller must the bottle be in order to hold about 175 cubic inches of water?
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Question 822962: If a homeowner places the top of a twenty foot ladder against the house and twelve feet above the ground, how far from the home is the base of the ladder?
I do not know how to set up the problem, please help.
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Question 823438: A rectangular area is enclosed with fencing where the width is 5 feet less than the length. If the area is 300 square feet, what is the width?
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Question 823472: the gas tank of a truck is a cylinder 5ft long with a diameter of 1.5ft. at the gas station, a pump pours gas at the rate of 2 ft^3 per minute. how many minutes does it take to fill the empty tank with that pump? use the value 3.14 for pi
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Question 823467: the gas tank of a truck is a cylinder 5ft long with a diameter of 1.5ft. at the gas station, a pump pours gas at the rate of 2 ft^3 per minute. how many minutes does it take to fill the empty tank with that pump? use the value 3.14 for pi
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Question 823463: The lengths of the sides of a triangle from Geomatric Progression.If the shortest side is 9 cm and the perimeter is 37 cm.Find the length of the other two sides
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Question 823461: A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 15...Determine the area of the shaded region. The hexagon is shaded, but the circle isn't. Please help? Thank you!
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Question 823529: you are shopping for a square fence. the area of the fence is 500ft squared find out how much fence you will need to buy to cover the perimeter
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