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Question 831314: Dillon is planting a 32ft. X 46ft garden for his mother. He can plant every two feet along the 32 foot side and every 1 foot along the other side. How many plants will he plant?
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Question 831322: an angle is four times as large as its complement.find the degree measure of each angle

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Question 831405: A machine produces open boxes using square sheets of metal. The machine cuts equal-sized squares measuring 3 inches on a side from the corners and then shapes the metal into an open box by turning up the sides. The length and width is x inches after the 3 inches is cut out of each corner. If each box must have a volume of 192 cubic inches, what is the length and width of the open box?
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Question 831416: A rectangle is 5 feet longer than it is wide. The perimeter of the rectangle is 34 feet. What is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 831452: a room is 11ft by 19ft it needs to be painted the ceiling is 8ft above the floor there are 2 windows in the room each window is 3ft by 4ft the door is 2.5ft by 6.5ft. Find the area of the walls and ceiling that need to be painted?
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Question 831450: The North Atlantic Ocean is 3600 km wide. Sea-floor spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge occurs at 2cm per year. When did rifting start to open the Atlantic?

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Question 831487: A rectangle has a diagonal of 15.4cm and the width is 6.4cm. To the nearest centimeter what is the length of the rectangle?
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Question 831394: A 1000 foot railroad track expands 6 inches because the day is very hot. This causes end L to break off and move to position D forming a right triangle RLD. Find DL
.../|D
../.|
./..|
R----L
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Question 831395: two tangent segments to a circle intersect and make an angle of 48 degrees 15' 12". Find the radius of the circle if one of the tangent segment is 27.2 cm
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Question 831557: Eric and Madison both measured the same trading card. Eric says the card is about 3 inches long. Madison says it is about 2 3/4 inches long. their teacher says they are both correct. how is that possible?
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Question 831779:

I have 14 poles 1 pole is 4ft 8 in how many ft are they out together
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Question 831845: Each base in baseball is a square with a perimeter of 60in. What is the length of one side?
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Question 831856: If I know the area of a pool is 4,000 linear feet and its perimeter is 280 linear feet, how do I find the VOLUME of the pool, if the depth is 12 linear feet and the SQUARE FEET OF THE POOL WALLS if the lining is 1, next it says to then find the SQUARE FEET OF THE DECK if the deck width is 15 linear feet. Then lastly it says to calculate the total area in square feet.
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Question 832006: An inch is equal to about 2.54 centimeters. Write an expression which estimates the number of centimeters in x inches. Then estimate the number of centimeters in 12 inches.
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Question 832026: Hi! this is my problem:
A bridge is in a shape of a parabola and has a span of 600 feet. Its maximum height is 180 feet. Write an equation to model the bridges shape.
I can't figure it out at all and finals are tomorrow! please help me!
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Question 832041: Please help with where to start::::: angles G and H are complimentary(=90 degrees). G=3x+6 and H=2x-11, what is the measure of each angle?
I haven't done this in over a decade, just need help on what to do first. Thank you
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Question 832487: A man built a walk of uniform width around a rectangular pool. If the area of the walk is 145 square feet and the dimensions of the pool are 17 feet by 7 feet, how wide is the walk?
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Question 832643: An open box is to be made from a square piece of cardboard having dimensions 40� by 40� by cutting out squares of area from each corner as shown in the figure below. Express the volume of the box as a function of x.
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Question 832688: A rectangle is 10cm by 12cm. What is the radius of the circle that will circumscribe it?
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Question 832600: Find the slope of the bisector of the angle from L1 to L2. L1 passes through (-2,8) and (6,4), while L2 contains the points (0,12) and (-2,8)..
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Question 832799: Find the x-intercept and y-intercept of the line
8 x - 9 y = 10

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Question 832848: In a three dimensional x, y, z coordinate system, how many lines through the origin make angles of 60 degrees with both the y and z axes? Also, what angles do they make with the positive x-axis? (My solution manual says that there are only two such lines. I conclude that there are four. Also, it says that the remaining angles with the positive x-axis are 45 and 135 degrees. I cannot see this in three space. Please explain. Thanks.)
Merc Boyd
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Question 833103: If the perimeter of a rectangle is 24 3/5 and one side of the rectangle is 4 4/5 what are the other sides?
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Question 833107: the area of this rectngle is 16 square units. find its length (the horizontal side) and width (the vertical side).
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Question 833316: If the diameter of a sphere is increased by 31% by what percentage of the original volume does the sphere increase to?

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Question 89: We have a rectangle where 2x+2y=45, and x=2/3y, solve for x (or Y).
How do you solve this?
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Question 833442: GIVE AN THE SQUARES ON THE RADII IS EQUAL TO SQUARE ON THE LINE?
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Question 833670: Workers plan to apply a reflective coating of paint to one surface of an equilateral triangular shaped highway sign. How many square inches of coating need to be applied to the sign if one side of the triangle is 18 inches?
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Question 833957: Does 45m, 60m, 75m make a right triangle?
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Question 834300: If a pool has a perimeter of 45 feet what is the length & width?
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Question 834346: The parallel sides of this window measure 3ft and 5ft. The other sides of the window are congruent. If the perimeter is 16ft, what is the length of each congruent side?
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Question 834526: find the volume of a sphere with diameter of 6 in
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Question 834465: A triangle has height 44 and area 32ft2. What is the length of its base?

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Question 834445: a 20-ft flagpole casts a shadow 12 ft long. how tall is a nearby building that casts a shadow 20 ft long?
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Question 834750: A square fence with an area of 100ft^2 is reshaped into a circular fence. What is the area of the new circular fence?

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Question 834960: you have a object 11 inches wide, the height on right side is 7 inches tall,
the height on left side is 12 and 1/2 inches tall, what degree is the angle

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Question 834986: The length of a cloth shrinks from 15 m to 12 m what percent decrease in the length

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Question 835039: The original photo was 11 inches wide by 14 inches high. The new photo will be 132 inches wide. What will the new height be? Round to the nearest inch if necessary.

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Question 835030: A regular hexagon and a rectangle have the same perimeter, P. A side of the hexagon is 4 less than the length, l, of the rectangle. The width of the rectangle, w, is 2 less than the length of the rectangle. What is the perimeter of the hexagon?

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Question 835190: Assume that the flask shown in the diagram can be modeled as a combination of a sphere and a cylinder. Based on this assumption, what is the volume of the flask? Round the answer to two decimal places.

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Question 835209: A rectangle measures 20 ft x 32 ft. What is the total area of the shape?
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Question 835217: Each side of the rhombus is 14 in. Long. Two of the sides form a 60 degree angle. Find the area of the rhombus. Round your answer to the nearest square inch.
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Question 835336: the length of a rectangle is twice as long as the radius of a circle. You want the area of the rectangle to equal the area of the circle. a) in terms of the circle's radius, find the width of the rectangle. write the answer in simplified form.
b)Find ratio of radius of the circle to the width of rectangle.
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