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Question 825928: A circular
flower garden is surrounded by a path of uniform width. If the diameter of the garden
is 10 m, and the width of the path is 2 m, what is the area of the path in terms of ?
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Question 825930: Find the measure of 2 complementary angles whose difference is 8.
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Question 825974: A piece of paper measures 8 whole and one-fourth cm by 7 whole one-third cm. A square of side 2 whole 1/2 cm is cut out and thrown away.
Show that the area that is left
is exactly 54 whole 1/4 cm square.
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Question 826058: If the tiles are 33centimetres by 33cm how many tiles will you need for 18 foot by 11 foot
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Question 826676: a flower garden is shaped like a circle. Its radius is 20 yards. A ring shaped path goes around the garden. The width of the path is 5 yards. The gardener is going to cover the path with sand. If one bag of sand cover 7 yards, how many bags of sand does the gardener need ?
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Question 826826: A small rectangular park measures 200 m by 300 m. To the nearest meter, how much shorter is it if you walk along a diagonal to get to the opposite corner than if you walk along two adjacent sides?
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Question 826908: Write An equation for a square that has an area of 60 with sides of lenght a+b. Use The Distributive property to fully expand the expression
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Question 827088: Find the equation of the line wiih x-intercept 3 and y-intercept -7.
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Question 827102: The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 85 centimeters. the ratio of the length of the base to the length of a leg is 5:6. Find the lengths of the three sides.
Can someone please explain this to me? I just don't understand geometry and my teacher doesn't really like me and won't answer my questions. I try so hard in his class but I have been working on this one problem for 30 minutes. I need desperate help.
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Question 827105: Find the area of a circle with a circumference of 23.8 feet to the nearest tenth. Show all of your work for full credit.
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Question 827082: The perimeter of a square is 20 ft. If you increase the length of the square by 2 feet and decrease the width by 1 foot, what is the area, in square feet, of the new figure?
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Question 827141: Explain how to find the width of a lake using a tape measure but without using a boat or getting your feet wet.
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Question 827141: Explain how to find the width of a lake using a tape measure but without using a boat or getting your feet wet.
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Question 827168: a rug is 6 feet wide and 10 feet long. what is the ratio of the length to the width?
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Question 827364: Hello i have a question If a rope is 27 feet long how long is the rope in yards
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Question 827389: the perimeter of a square garden is 228 beat how long is each side
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Question 827391: The perimeter of a rectangular sandbox is 24 feet. The width of the sandbox is 5 feet. What is the length of one of the sides?
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Question 827405: what is the hypotenuses if the height is 20 feet and the width is 6 feet

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Question 827416: The length of a right triangle is 14 centimeters shorter than the other leg, and the hypotenuse is 2 centimeters longer then the longer leg. Find the lengths of all three sides.
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Question 827463: Please help me with this
a square has an area of 60 sq ft, which of the following is the best approximation for the length of each side of the square?
a) 7 4/15, b) 7 4/11, c) 7 11/15, d) 7.3
Can you please explain?
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Question 827562: A scale factor of 3 is applied to a triangle that has a perimeter of 36 centimeters. What is the perimeter of the resulting triangle?
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Question 827589: the height of a triangle is 2 metres longer than its base. If the area of the triangle is 40m^2, find its dimensions.
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Question 826729: a 60cm piece of wire is cut into a ratio of 3:2. they are made into squares. what is the ratio of the two squares

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Question 827741: A rectangular park is 95 meters long and 50 meters wide.
Give the length and width of another rectangular park that has the same perimeter but a smaller area.
What's the length and width???
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Question 828000: How many 30cm square tiles are needed to cover the floor of a room measuring 3 metres by 4 and a half metres
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Question 828061: Kate wants to build a fence around her yard. The width of the yard is one-third the length.
The perimeter of the yard is 80 feet.
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Question 828356: what would the hypotenuse of a roof be that is 7 feet high at the peak and with a length of 12 feet from the peak to the edge
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Question 828393: A rectangular backyard has an area of 2x^2-13x-24 m^2. Factor to find possible expressions to represent the length and the width.

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Question 828507: A cow is tethered at point A by a rope. Neither the rope nor the cow is allowed to enter ▼ABC. What is the area that can be grazed by the cow if the length of the rope is 8 meters?
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Question 828522: A jogging park has two identical circular tracks touching each other, and a rectangular track enclosing the two circles. The edges of the rectangles are tangential to the circles. Two friends, A and B, start jogging simultaneously form the point where one of the circular tracks touches the smaller side of the rectangular track. A jogs along the rectangular track, while B jogs along the two circular tracks in a figure of eight. Approximately, how much faster than A does B have to run, so that they take the same time to return to their starting point?
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Question 828790: Find the length of a diagonal of a square enclosure with a perimeter of 16 ft
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Question 828765: A living room has a circular rug. According to a small tag, the rug has an area of 3.14 square meters. What is the rug's circumference?
Use 3.14 for π.
meters
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Question 828543: It is a common experience to hear the sound of a low flying airplane, and look at the wrong place in the sky to see the plane. Suppose that a plane is traveling directly toward you at a speed of 200 mph and an altitude of 3,000 feet, and you hear the sound at what seems to be an angle of inclination of 20 degrees.
At what angle should you actually look in order to see the plane? Assume the speed of sound is 1,100 ft/sec
Thank you in advance for you help!
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Question 828836: A circular garden, 20 ft in diameter, has a path around it that is 3 ft wide. Find the area of the path? How much fence is needed if the garden is fenced (not including the path)?
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Question 828905: What is the ratio of 36 cm to 6m
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Question 828993: if an area of a square is multiplied by sixteen, the area becomes 25 square inches. find the length x of a side of the square
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Question 829020: Please help me solve this.
Suppose that the width of a square is three times the width of a second square. How do the areas of the squares compare? Why?
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Question 829011: consider the line y=7/2x-5
Find the equation of the line that is perpendicular to this line and passes through the point (7,-3)
Find the equation of the line that is parallel to this line and passes through the point (7,-3)
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Question 828974: How many lenghts of wire 60 meters long can be cut from 1 1/2 kilometers of wire?
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Question 829266: How many triangles can there be that have the perimeter of 21?
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Question 829231: if a foot chain cost 17 cents then 4 yards of this chain would cost?
what is the formula for answering questions like this?
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Question 829273: Tony needs to frame 7 pictures. he has framed 4 so far. what fraction represents the pictures he has not framed
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