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Question 842432: paul room is 12 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 8 feet high he want to paint the wall and the ceiling .a gallon of paint covers 500 square feet. will paul be able to paint the room with one gallon of paint?
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Question 842465: a rectangular lot measures 54.5 meters by 119.1 meters. A swimming pool, also rectangular, measuring 10.8 m by 8.2 m is built on the lot. how much area is left over ?
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Question 842466: The length of a rectangle is 3 times the width. If the perimeter is to be at least 48 meters, what are the possible values for the width? [Hint: If the perimeter is at least 48 meters, then it is greater than or equal to 48 meters.] (Let x be the width and enter a solved inequality involving x.)

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Question 842434: Shery wants to sew the edges of the scarf its a square and its 75cm on each side who much dose she need
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Question 810047: Jack looks at a clock tower from a distance and determines that the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 40�. John, who is standing 20 meters from Jack as shown in the diagram, determines that the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 60�. If Jack�s and John�s eyes are 1.5 meters from the ground, how far is John from the base of the tower? Round the answer to the nearest
tenth
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Question 842574: The area of triangle B is 25 times greater than the area of triangle A.The perimeter of triangle B is how many times greater than the perimeter of triangle A?

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Question 842621: If the sun is 66 degrees above the horizon, find the length of the shadow cast by a building 70ft tall. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 842620: A picture frame has a perimeter of 100 cm. Its width is 4 cm less than twice its length. What is the width of the picture frame?
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Question 842700: the ratio of the length of a rectangle to its width is 5:3. the width is 16 inches shorter than the length. find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 842707: a casserole is made of 3 parts chicken, 2 parts noodles, and 1 part cheese. find the ratio of the amount of noodles to the total amount.
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Question 843049: A square field has a perimeter of 240 meters. What is the area of the field?

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Question 843185: how many pieces 6 1/4 in. long can be cut from 35 metal rods each 4o in. long? disregard waste.

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Question 843414: If I have 80 feet of fencing and I need to have 500 square feet of area. How would I do it?
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Question 843505: A father and son are building a round fence around their house. They have 16, 16ft. panels and a 10 ft. gate and a 4ft. gate (270 ft. total). They want to use a radius and mark the places to dig holes for each post that will support the panels, but they don't know how long the radius should be. Find the radius
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Question 843477: My daughter is having a problem with a math question, wondering if you could help me so I can help her. The problem is - a wall 2 metres high and 60 metres long stands in a vertical plane running east to west. Calculate the width and area of the shadow cast by the wall, on level ground when the sun is due north at an elevation of 40�47'. Thank you
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Question 843517: A boy saves Rs 4.65 daily find the least number of days in which he will be able to save an exact number of rupees?
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Question 843787: A person walking covers two-third of a mile in two-ninth of an hour. What distance, in miles, does the person cover in an hour?
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Question 843854: isosceles trapezoid with a perimeter of 52 yards; the measure if one base is 10 yards greater than the other base, the measure of each leg is 3 yards less than twice the length of the shorter base, Find the area of the figure
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Question 843782: if the area of a circle is 5806 cm2. how do I find the diameter and radius?
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Question 844081: An 18 inch board is cut into two pieces in the ratio 1:8 what is the length of the piece
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Question 843511: A rectangular courtyard of length 20m 16cm and breadth 15m 60cm is to be paved with same sized square tiles.Find the maximum possible numbers of such tiles?
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Question 844191:
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Question 844226: a 20 cm long wire is reframed into a square find the area of that square?
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Question 844185:

A tree casts a 30 foot shadow. Mi ling, standing next to the tree, casts a 13.5 foot shadow. If mi ling isb5 ft tall, how tall is the tree

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Question 844245: You have 540 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden. You want the length of the garden to be 50 feet greater than the width. Find the length and width of the garden if you use all of the fencing.
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Question 844265: please help me solve this.
the length of a rectangle is seven units more then its width. If the width is doubled and the length is increased by two, the area is increased by forty-two square units. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
I have tried two rectangles one with x+7 by x with the area of x squared. Then a second rectangle with x+9 by 2x with the area of x squared+ forty-two. after that I get the second rectangle and set the formula of x2+42= 2x2+18x. I subtract the x2+42 to get the quadratic of x2+18x-42=0
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Question 844382: the width of the room is 15ft and the length is represented as x.the area is 300ft ,what is the value of x?

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Question 844673: A water tank at a farm is used for irrigation. The tank has a radius of 4 feet and a height of 21 feet. What is the volume of the tank? Use 3.14 to approximate pi. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 844675: I have a word problem that I need to solve. I have set it up but I don't know if I did it correctly. The problem reads like this: The perimeter of a rectangle is 32 cm. The length is 1 cm more than twice the width. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
I know that we add all for sides to find perimeter so I am thinking p=32cm
and L+1+2W=32cm I am stuck here.
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Question 844695: determine the interval in which the third side of a triangle could measure if two of the sides measure 5 inches and 8 inches

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Question 844805: A right circular cylinder with a diameter D = 21 cm and a height h = 34 cm has a hole with a diameter d = 8 cm drilled through its center. The approximate volume of the cylinder with the hole drilled through the center would be ________ cu cm.
what is the formula for this?
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Question 844970: If 13 is increased to 22, the increase is what percent of the original number?
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Question 844602: Andre is making a rectangle by placing 25 square tiles in a row. What is the perimeter, in centimeters, of the rectangle?
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Question 845120: A refreshment stand sells a large tub of popcorn for twice the price of a box of popcorn. If 60 tubs were sold for a total of $150 and the total popcorn sales were $275, how many boxes of popcorn were sold?
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Question 845186: the length of a garden is 10 meters and 32 meters of fencing is required to completely enclose it. what is the width?? need a step by step solution so i will know how to do it later
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Question 845229: Zev is planting a garden. The garden is 10 1/3 yards long and 8 yards wide. What is the area of the garden?
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Question 844558: The length of a rectangle is 11 more than twice its width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 118 feet. Find the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 845122: The perimeter of a triangle is 45 centimeters. The first side is 3 centimeters shorter than the second side. The third side is 6 centimeters shorter than twice the length of the first side. Find the length of the shortest side.
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Question 845012: If the width of a certain rectangle is increased by 12 and length reduced by 36 we get a square with the same area as original rectangle. Find length and width of orignal rectangle?
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Question 844968: A rectangular garden is 16 feet wide. Its length is 7 feet more than twice the width. What is the area of the garden?
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Question 845367: the area of a rectangle is 56 and its perimeter is 30. find the difference of its length and width
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Question 845367: the area of a rectangle is 56 and its perimeter is 30. find the difference of its length and width
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