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Question 840197: what is the length of each side of a square that has the same area as 12.96 and 1.96

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Question 840196: what is the length of each side of a square that has the same area as 12.96 and 1.96

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Question 840215: A bowl contains 8 blue marbles and 5 green marbles. Monique randomly draws 3 marbles from the bowl. She does NOT replace the marbles after each draw. What is the probability that she draws 1 blue marble and 2 green marbles?
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Question 839826: Determine the most precise name for the quadrilateral with vertices (3,-2), (5,4), (3,6) , (1,4)
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Question 840259: You a chunk of land you have 1 bag that weighs 10ib and 5 pounds per 1000 ft.
How many bags should bob buy.
The height of the land is 80 ft and the width is 120 ft
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Question 840269:
The perimeter of a rectangular cement patio is 36 meters. The area is 80 square meters. What are the dimensions of the patio? How do I solve this?
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Question 840216: what is the area of a 15 meeters triangle and a 25 meeter square and a 30 meeter triangle and 15meeter line
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Question 840305: A water heater ha sa diameter of 18 inches. It sits in a drain pan that has a diameter of 22 inches and a height of 2 inches.Water that leaks out of the water heater sits in the drain pan. Which of the following is closest to the maximum amount of water that the drain pan can contain with the water heater in its current position?
The smaller drain pan has a volume of 759.88 ( V= 3.14 x (11)^2 x (2)) However, how do you find the volume of the second cylinder? There is no height this is where I am lost...
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Question 840421: A family has 8 girls and 4 boys. A total of 3 children must be chose to speak on the behalf of the family at a local benefit. What is the probability that no girls and 3 boys will be chosen?
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Question 840433: The width of a rectangle is 10 m less then half the length. If the perimeter is 52 meters, find the length of each side of the rectangle.
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Question 840518: two angles are supplementary. if the larger is twice the smaller, what are the measures of the two angles? pls. use elimination
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Question 840552: what is the length of the radius of a circle that has a diameter of 146 centimeter?

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Question 840392: Jacob randomly draws 2 cards from a standard deck of 52 cards. He does not replace the first card. What is the probability that both cards are kings?
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Question 840600: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose area s 575square cm and whose perimeter is 96cm
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Question 840219: Harry is building a house with a sloping roof. If the roof is 44 feet long and 10 feet high, what is the angle that the roof makes with the horizontal?

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Question 840776: Which rectangle has a bigger area ? Rectangle A. is 36 square centimeters and Rectangle B. is 36 square inches.
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Question 840910: The flower bed in the park by amy's house is in the shAPE of an equilateral triangle. one side of the triangular flower bed is 40 feet long. amy walked around all 3 sides of the triangle. HOW FAR DID SHE WALK?

THE TRIANGLE SHOULD MEASURE 180 ? i THINK ITS IS 180 BECAUSE 40+70+70 = 180

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Question 840849: A bowl contains 4 yellow marbles and 3 red marbles. Michael randomly draws 4 marbles from the bowl. He replaces the marbles after each draw. What is the probability that he draws 3 yellow marbles and 1 red marble?
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Question 841009: on a blueprint, a hallway is 45.6 cm long. The scale is 1.2 cm=1.0 m. How long is the hallway?
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Question 841086: Julie's room is 14 feet wide by 10 feet long by 8 feet high. What are the area and the perimeter?
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Question 841021: A rectangle's length is 504 and 2/3 yards. The length is 6 yards shorter than twice the width. What is the area of the rectangle?
I have to make a table that uses guess and check. I've tried doing that, but I'm not very good with fractions. So, maybe you can make a table or give me a way to figure out this problem.
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Question 841216: The scale of a model is 0.5 in: 6 ft. Find the length of the model for the actual length of 204 ft.
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Question 841220: A park is surrounded by four fences. Each fence measures either 0.5 mi or 4/8 mi. What shape is the park

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Question 841262: What is the most area that can be possibly made using 300ft of fencing (which is the perimeter) , producing a three sided corral
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Question 840443: Find two complementary angles such as that the measure of the first angle is 25 degrees less then the measure of the second

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Question 841430: Hello,
I want to know, Does the median from the vertex of 90 degree angle to the hypotenuse bisects the "Angle" in equal parts?
Or it is only in the case of isosceles triangle?
And I would like to know more about the properties of median and altitude of a right angle triangle.
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Question 841543: a number is decreased by 10% and then increased by 10%.the number so obtained is 10 less than the original number. what was the original number?

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Question 841558: For how many three-element sets of positive integers is it true that their product is 2013?
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Question 841555: Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879. Which day of the week was he born?
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Question 841557: Let f be a linear function such that f(2) = 17 and f(-1/3) = 3. What is f(1)?
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Question 841617: Jayne has a rectangular swimming pool in her backyard.The pool has a width of 15 feet and a length of 25 feet.The deck that surrounds the pool is 5 feet.
What is the area of the deck that surrounds the pool?
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Question 841650: A rectangle is 7m long, 3m wide and 2.5m high.what is the length of the longest diaginal from one corner to another corner of the room?
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Question 841657: a walkway 3.3m wide is constructed along the outside edge of a square courtyard. if the perimeter of the courtyard is 304m, what is the perimeter of the square formed by the outer edge of the walkway?
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Question 841775: The two legs of a right triangle are equal and the square of its hypotenuse is 50. Find the length of each leg.
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Question 842074: 25 decreased by four times e
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Question 842136: to prove the perimeter of a triangle is over 50ft, what must you find first?
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Question 842157: During a practice, a softball player throws a ball that can be modeled by the equation h=-16t^2+24t+1. Find the amount of time it will take the ball to reach a height of 6 feet.
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Question 842158: One leg of a right triangle is four inches longer than the other side. The hypotenuse is 20 inches. Find the length of each leg of the triangle. Draw a picture and write an equation.
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Question 842141: Billy likes to go cycling.
His bike has wheels of diameter 75cm.
He has invented a counter for his bike,
which counts the number of revelations the wheel makes.
One day the counter shows 270 revolutions.
How far has billy cycled?
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Question 842222: A garden is in the shape of a rectangle. One side of the garden has length 27 ft. The other side has length x. You plan to build a sidewalk of width 6 ft to surround the garden. The cost to dig the ground and pour concrete to build the sidewalk is $92 per square foot. Express the cost to build the sidewalk as a function of x. Sidewalk cost=
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Question 842353: I solved the diameter using C=2pir I got C=2(3.14)(3)=18.84 (I was wrong)
How many square feet of concrete surface are there in a circular walkway 8ft wide surrounding a tree if the tree has a diameter of 3ft.
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Question 842397: A tree in an open field stands on top of a uniformly shaped mound. When the angle of elevation of the sun is 38 degrees, the shadow of the tree ends at the base of the mound which is 42 ft. down from the base of the tree. If the mound rises at an angle of 7 degrees, how tall is the tree?
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