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Question 829223: A painting is 1 3/4 feet by 1 5/8 feet. what size will a copy of the painting be if its length and width are 1 1/3 the size of the original?
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Question 829358: In an isosceles right_triangle,the square of the hypotenuse is 98cm.find the length of the congruent sides
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Question 828858: A model car is 5 in long, if it was built with a scale of 1 in : 2ft, then how long is the model car?

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Question 828815: The area of a sail is 40 1/2 square feet. The base and the height of the sail are equal. What is the height of the sail (in feet).
I tried 40 1/2=1/2 x 2x
Thank you for your help.
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Question 829413: james has 4and3/4 feet of rope he plans to cut iff1and1/2 feet of rope how much will be left
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Question 829489: simplify 32^2/5
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Question 828864: A baker inspects a sample of 200 pastries and find that 3 are not frosted.
Based on this data, what is the probability that a pastry is not frosted?
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Question 829217: To the nearest inch, a door is 75 in. tall and 35 in. wide. What is the ratio of the width to the height?
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Question 829591: Hannah drew a circle with a radius of 30 centimeters. Jonas drew a circle with a radius of 20 centimeters. What is the approximate difference in the areas of their circles?
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Question 829547: Sam tied his dog on a 10 foot rope attached to one of the corner posts on the inside of his fence. How many square feet does the dog have to roam?
The rectangle displays 28ft (width) and 15ft (height).
I have tried by illustrating the corner post with the rope and the arc shape it would make if the dog went to either side of the yard, but I can't figure out the formula to decipher. I tried 28 x 15=140+280=420, but I know logically that answer doesn't make sense.
I greatly appreciate any assistance you can offer.
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Question 829764: Jesse usrd a rope to stake a circular regionin which to plant a tree. The diameter of the region is 20 inches. What is the approximate area of the circular region
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Question 829773: I am stuck on this question and don't know where to start.
The width of a rectangle is 10 mm shorter than its length. Its perimeter is 244 mm. Let l equal the length of the rectangle.
1. Write an expression for the width in terms of the length.
2. Write an equation for the perimeter in terms of l.
3. Solve the equation, clearly indicating the length of the rectangle.
4. Solve for the width of the rectangle. Clearly indicate the width of the rectangle.
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Question 829810: For 7 days, jamal drank 3 pints of milk gor breakfast and 2 pints of milk for lunch. What equation could be used to determine the q, the number of quarts of milk jamal drank in the 7 days
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Question 829767: Hannah drew a circle with a radius of 30 centimeters. Jonas drew a circle with a rsdius of 20 centimeters. What is the approximate difference in the sreasif their circles
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Question 829713: In triangle MNO, m∠M is equal to m∠N, and m∠O is 5 more than three times m∠N. What is the measure of each angle?
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Question 829916: 3/4 of 8 feet how many are left?
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Question 829860: Find the constant s so that the lines (2x+4)x+5y= -7 and (s + 4)x+3y = s are parallel.
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Question 829959: An architect is planning a new town square. The square has sides that are 20 feet long. A walkway will cut diagonally through the square. How long is walkway? Use calculator to find decimal value of radicals, round your final answer to nearest foot. MUST SHOW WORK
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Question 829921: Jaime wants to make a frame for a painting.to measure the perimeter, he runs a string around the perimeter of the painting. What should he do next?
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Question 829953: The area of a trapezoid is 162cm2(squard). The height is 18cm and the length of one of the parallel sides is 6cm. Find the length of the second parallel

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Question 830014: One gallon of paint (volume = 3.78E-3m3) covers an area of 29.2m2. What is the thickness of the paint on the wall?
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Question 830040: Sally is creating a rectangular quilt and the length is equal to five inches less than the width. The perimeter is 30 inches. What are the dimensions of the quilt?

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Question 830135: from the top of a flagpole 48 ft in height, two 60-ft ropes reach two points on the ground, each of witch is 36 ft from the pole. If the ground is level, is the pole perpendicular to the ground?
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Question 830222: what is the least number of square pieces into which a cardboard,13 ft long and 8 ft wide,can be cut?
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Question 830220: Calvin wants to fence off a rectangular playground beside an apartment building. the building forms one boundary, so he needs to fence only the other three sides. the area of the playground is to be 11,250 sq meters. he has enough material to build a 325 meters of fence. find the length and width of the playground.
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Question 830356: The length of a rectangle is 3 inches less than 4 times its width. The area of the rectangle is 7 sq. inches. Find the dimensions of the rectangle

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Question 830394: A box filled with 8 brown cards, 5 green cards, and 7 red cards, a card is chosen at random from the box. What is the probability that the card is not green? write your answer as a fraction in simplest form
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Question 830457: a kite flying 200 feet above the ground is attached to a string that is 300 feet long tied to a stake on the ground. Approximate the angle of elevation formed by the string and the ground to the nearest degree.
I believe you need to use the reciprocal so something along the lines of cos-1=(200/300) or flip the two in the parentheses but I get an answer of .026 which I feel cannot be right.
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Question 830461: in a triangle three angles add up to 180 and one angle is 73, what are the other two
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Question 830571: A rancher needs to fence a corral. If the area is to be 225 yards squared and he wants to use a minimum amount of wire, what should the dimensions of the fence?
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Question 830609: i got 3 yards wide and 4 yards long and i have 20 feet of fence do i have enough fence to cover all 4 sides

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Question 830562: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. The perimeter is 44 cm. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 830388: A group of 6 students was asked, "How many hours did you watch television last week?" Here are their responses:
5 , 14 , 9 , 11 , 4 , 7 .
Find the median and mean number of hours for these students. If necessary, round your answers to the nearest tenth.

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Question 830764: a boy start studying from 8am in the morning and the angle of the sun is 15 degree . now the angle of the sun is 55 degree ... what will.be the time now...
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Question 830795: a lot with 45ft of street frontage , containing 1280 sq. yds. , would have a depth of?
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Question 830858: find the point of intersection of the lines 5x + 2y = 16 and 10x - 3y - 46.
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Question 830912: All verticle of rombus lie on circle find the area of rombus if area of circle is 2464 cm2
Let us start with some basic facts:
1. A rhombus inscribed in a circle must be a square, with its diagonals passing through the center of the circle (If you want proof for this I will go into that later, but I don't want to detract from the problem at hand)
2. Since the area of the circle is 2464, the radius must be the square root of 2464/PI, i.e. 28 centimeters.
3. That means the diameter of the circle is 56 centimeters.
4. Now consider either half of this rhombus (square). It is a right-angled triangle with the two minor sides each equal to x (unknown) and hypotenuse equal to 56.
5. Apply Pythagoras: x-squared + x-squared = 56-squared. That is, 2 times x-squared = 56-squared. So x-squared = 28 times 56 = 1568
6. The area of the rhombus (square) is therefore 1568 square cm
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Question 830955: How many posts will be needed for one side of a field that is 1/2 mile long if a post is post is put in every 8 feet ?
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Question 830955: How many posts will be needed for one side of a field that is 1/2 mile long if a post is post is put in every 8 feet ?
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Question 831010: Write the statement "cars are vehicles" as a conditional statement. Then write the converse.
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Question 830951: How many 8" bricks are need to do a job across a window sill that is 4' 6" wide?
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Question 831126: Please solve it arithmaticaly without using equation...
The length and breath of rectangle is in the ratio of 7:5. If the perimeter is 96 cm. Whats the lenth?
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Question 831290: The length of the rectangular tennis court at Wimbledon is 2 feet longer than twice the width. If the court's perimeter is 238 feet, what are the court's dimensions?
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Question 831282: A man built a walk of uniform width around a rectangular pool. If the area of the walk is 259 square feet and the dimensions of the pool are 13 feet by 17 feet, how wide is the walk?
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