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Question 823574: Please help me solve this question.
Damain has a room with four square wall of length 12 feet.
He wants to paint the design shown below on each of the four walls . If one gallons of paint covers 350 square feet of wall, how many gallons of blue paint and how many gallons of white paint will be needed?
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Question 823603: Find the length of a diagonal of a square enclosure with a perimeter of 16 feet

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Question 823610: 60m wide and 95m long, what are the dimensions to the nearest whole yard?
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Question 823609: How do can I measure 96 cm by 60 cm

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Question 823615: The area of a rectanglar ice-skating rink is 900 square yards. If the length of the rink is 100 yards, what is the width of the rink?
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Question 823845: You are in charge of securing a rectangular work area by fencing it in. Two sides of the area measure 20 feet and two sides measure 10 feet. How many feet of fencing are needed?
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Question 823767: A farmer wants to construct a pen with 100 feet of fencing. The pen will be divided into 2 areas. Find the dimensions of the big pen ( the whole thing) the x coordinate of the vertex of a parabola is x= -b/2a
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Question 824090: a triangle has vertices T(2,3) R(4,1) and I (-1,-5) What is the approximate perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 824095: the lengths of two sides of a triangle are 15 yards and 27 yards. Describe the possible lenghts of the third side of the triangle.
I know there is going to be a small value and a large value but i dont know how to make the equation to get them.
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Question 823451: a regular hexagon is circumscribed about a circle with a radius of 6 ft. find the area of the shaded region shown
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Question 824150: The area of a rectangular room is 399 sq. ft.
Its length is 5.3 ft greater than its width.
Find the dimensions of the room.
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Question 824321: a rope is drawn around a circular land if the length of rope is 220m what is the radius
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Question 824352: the length of room is 1.9m and the width is 2.050m what is the total square meters
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Question 824353: Volume Formula of a Square Pyramid:
V=1/3b^(2)h
Part 1:
Given a square based pyramid, write an equation that represents its volume if the length of the one of the sides of the base is 6 more than twice the length of its height.
Surface Area Formula of a Square Pyramid:
A=2bs+b^(2)
Part 2:
Given the surface area is 100 square feet, find its volume.

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Question 824382: The length of a room floor exceeds its breadth by 20 m .The area of floor remains unaltered when the length is decreased by 10 m but the breadth is increased by 5 m.The area of the floor ( in square meters)is:
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Question 824547:
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Question 824609: A rectangle has an area of 110 inches^2. If the length and the width of the rectangle are measured in whole inches, what is the least possible perimeter of the rectangle?
(A) 21 inches
(B) 27 inches
(C) 42 inches
(D) 54 inches

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Question 824627: A large mound of gravel is piled in the shape of a cone. The circumference of the bottom of the pile is 250 feet. The height of the pile is 35 feet. How many cubic feet of gravel is in the pile? Possible Answers: 28,359 - 51,030 - 58,057 or 174,087.
I come up with 58,025 which is not one of the answers. Where am I missing the mark?
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Question 824748: How do we find the side lengths of a quadrilateral?
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Question 824831: A flower garden is shaped like a circle. Its radius is 15yds. A ring shaped path goes around the garden. The width of the path is 5 yds.
The gardener is going to cover the path with sand. If one bag of sand can cover 6yds squared, how many bags of sand does the gardener need? Note the sand comes only by the bag, so the number if bags must be a whole number.
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Question 824828: the area of a triangle flag is 30 square centimeters. Its altitude is 2 centimeters longer than twice its base. FInd the lengths of the altitude and the base.
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Question 824829: The area of a rectangular wall of a barn is 32 square feet. Its length is 12 feet longer than twice its width. Find the length and width of the wall of the barn.
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Question 823385: If the round size is 54 meter then what is the centre size
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Question 825096: Terry has a square patio. After expanding the length by 20 ft and the width by 10 ft the areas was 999 ft^2, what was the original area?
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Question 825167: I'm not a student but a guy at work and have only 1 question.
I have a 30 foot run of pipe that needs to be on a 2% pitch downward towards a sump. Question is what is the parts per foot drop, 1\8 inch per foot or greater?Thanks for your help, Gatlow.
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Question 825226: The area of some shape varies directly with the square of its side. If a shape with 6 cm sides has an area of 216 cm2, what would be the area of a shape of the same type with sides of 8 cm?

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Question 825168: [ Bob has enough fertilizer to cover 310 ft^2 of garden space. What is the diameter of the largest circular garden that Bob can fertilize? Use 3.14 as pie. ]
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Question 825268: I actually dont know if this is a geometry question but it has rectangles, perimeter, and area in it. (Sorry if I selected the topic wrong)
Here is my question:
A rectangle has a perimeter of 40m and an area of 91m^2. If the length is longer than the width, find the length.
I dont know if my solution is right but i think it is absolutely wrong. Can you please correct me?
(This is what I understood about the problem)
perimeter of a rectangle = 40m
area of rectangle= 90m^2
( Perimeter of a rectangle is 2l+2w right? while area is l*w)
So I Put it this way
2l+2w= 40m
l*w= 90 m^2
That is what I tried I dont know what to do. Please help me on this one

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Question 825295: A lawn is rectangular in the middle and it has semicircle portions along the shorter sides of the rectangle. The rectangular portion measures 50 by 35. Find the area of the lawn
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Question 825514: Find the measures of two complementary angles whose difference is 8
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Question 825561: 12 feet length, 10 feet width, rectngle, how much length will be there from corner to corner
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Question 825561: 12 feet length, 10 feet width, rectngle, how much length will be there from corner to corner
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Question 825541: When the side of a square is increased by four units, its area is increased by 80 square units. What is the length of the side of original square?
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Question 825494: The sum of three times an angle and twice its complement is 215. Find the measures of the angles.
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Question 825651: You are designing a rectangular enclosure with 3 rectangular interior sections separated by parallel walls. If you have 1500 feet of fencing, what is the maximum area that can be enclosed?
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Question 825625: The sum of three numbers is 30. The second number is 3 times the first. The third number is twice the second number. What are the three numbers?
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Question 825682: The two non-parallel sides of a trapezoid are equal and the perimeter is 18 units. the shorter of the two parallel sides is four less than one of the equal sides and the longest sides is 5 more than one of the equal sides. Find the length of each side
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Question 825628: At P.S. 125 there is an outbreak of the flu. On the first day, 58 children got sick. On the second day, 68 children got sick and 60 got sick on the third day. On the fourth day, 70 children got sick and 62 new cases were reported on the fifth day. If the children kept getting sick at the same rate, how many children would get the flu on the 10th day?
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Question 825744: A home�s backyard is 20 feet by 15 feet. What are its perimeter and area?
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Question 825745: If a boat has a sail that is 30 feet long and 60 feet high, what is the hypotenuse of the sail?
A shed on a property has a flat roof and measurements of 10 feet wide by 10 feet deep by 7 feet tall. What is the area of the shed? What is its volume?
A round, above ground pool has a diameter of 15 feet and a height of 4.5 feet. What is the circumference of the pool? What is its volume?
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Question 825763: the are of a rectangular garden is 320 meter square and 160 meter square is covered with grass,40 meter square is planted with flowers and the remaining part is occupied by a swimming pool. what fraction of the garden does the part with grass represent? and the part with flower?
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Question 825801: The sum of three numbers is 18. The second number is six more than the first. The third is three less than the second number. What are the numbers?
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