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Question 848582: A dairy farmer wishes to obtain 200 gallons of milk that is 3.8% butterfat by mixing lowfat milk,which is 2% butterfat, with half and half milk containing 11% butterfat. How many gallons of each milk should he use?
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Question 848574: The product of two consecutive even integers is 840. Find these numbers
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Question 848646: What is the approximate area of a circle with a circumfrence of 15 in.?
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Question 848635: Find the area, to the nearest tenth, of grass that Adrianne's dog may run in if the leash is 9 feet long.
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Question 848678: ABCD is a rectangle.If AB=7x-6 and CD=5x=30,find the value for x
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Question 848739: If a pyramid has a square base that measures 6 m on each side and a height of 5 m, then its volume is
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Question 849156: How many 6-letter codes can you create out of the letters A, B, C, D, E & F if each letter can be repeated?
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Question 849099:
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Question 849327: i need help understand this geometry word problem:
a small square is constructed. then a new square is made by increasing each side by 2 meters.the perimeter of the square is 3 meters shorter the five times the length of one side of the original square. find the dimensions of the original square.
i am not sure if it is writen 2+5L-3=?
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Question 849366: Given that triangle ABC is similar to triangle FED,where AB = 77,EF = 21, BC = 11x + 11, and DE = 30.Find x.
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Question 849624: Find two angles whose sun is a right angle such that one angle is 30 degrees more than 1/3 the other angle.
I was thinking the equation would be set up as follows:
1/3x+30=90
I don't believe I'm right tho.
Thank you very much for your help!
Dawn
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Question 849851: A CARPENTER HAS SEVERAL BOARDS OF EQUAL LENGTH. HE CUTS 3/5 OF EACH BOARD. AFTER CUTTING THE BOARDS, THE CARPENTER NOTICES THAT HE HAS ENOUGH PIECES LEFT OVER TO MAKE UP THE SAME LENGTH AS 4 OF THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. HOW MANY BOARDS DID THE CARPENTER START WITH?
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Question 849860: here is the word problem:
The American society of heating, refrigeration and air conditioning requires 4 complete air changes per hour in public buildings. If a classroom is 30 ft by 35 ft with a 10 ft ceiling, how many cubic feet of air must be moved every hour in this room?
Im at a loss on how to set this question up. Thank you!
Dawn
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Question 849933: what is the measure, in degrees, of angle x, which is formed when the two legs meet at the desk top? The angles are 130

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Question 849974: What is the volume of a right circular cylinder with a height of 9 inches and whose base has a diameter of 6 inches
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Question 849974: What is the volume of a right circular cylinder with a height of 9 inches and whose base has a diameter of 6 inches
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Question 849937: Tommy is standing 250 feet from the base of a building. The angle of elevation from his location to the top of the building is 50 degree. Based on the trigonometric function below, what is the height of the building, to the nearest foot?
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Question 850192: A wall of perimeter 38 m surrounds a rectangular yard of length 12 m. What is the width of the yard?
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Question 850106: the perimeter of a rectangle is 26cm.The area of the rectangle remains unaltered if the lenght is decreased by 3cm and width is increased by 2cm.Find the dimension of the original rectangle
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Question 850358: Merion forms a ball of clay with a radius of 2 in. He then reforms the clay into a cylinder of radius 3 in. What is the height of the cylinder?
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Question 850530: Dareen�s family is ready to have wall-to-wall carpeting installed. The carpeting they chose costs $14 per square yard, the padding $3 per square yard, and the installation $3 per square yard. What will it cost them to carpet the three bedrooms and the hallway shown?
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Question 849891: The length of a rectangular pool is 4m more than twice its width. The perimeter of the pool is 20m. What is the area of the pool?
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Question 850599: A forester is estimating the amount of lumber contained in a tree. When she stands 35 feet away from the tree, the angle to the top of the tree is 54 as measured from her eye-level height, 6 feet above ground. What is the height of the tree to the nearest foot?
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Question 850319: Dylan has a square piece of metal that measures 10 inches on each side. He cuts the metal along the diagonal, forming two right triangles. What is the length of the hypotenuse of each right triangle to the nearest tenth of an inch?
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Question 850961: What is the answer to 12x-12=10x+10
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Question 851317: how do I write this as an equation
The product of length and width is the area of a rectangle. (Let L = length, W = width, and A = area.)
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Question 851313: how do I write this as equation
The sum of the length and width is half the perimeter of a rectangle. (Let L = length, W = width, and P = perimeter.)
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Question 851311: how do I write this as an equation
One average is the quotient of the number of successes and the number of tries. (Let A = average, s = number of successes, and t = number of tries.)
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Question 851461: A rectangle with an area of 125cm2 has sides in the ratio 4:5. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

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Question 851574: find the geometric mean of 8 and 18
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Question 851605: A room is 30ft long and 20ft wide someone build a fence from corner to corner In the room, how long is the fence
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Question 851644: A 48 meter board is cut into two pieces. If one piece has a length of u meters, what is the length, in meters, of the other piece?
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Question 851785: Would you please help me in finding the X in the following equation

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Question 851785: Would you please help me in finding the X in the following equation

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Question 852108:

Square tiles measuring 2 feet on each side are sold in bundles of 10 for $13 what will it cost to cover a rectangle floor measuring 40 feet by 50 feet with the square tiles copuld you show me how to set this up and solve it?

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Question 852078: A regular hexagon with a side length of 4 has the same area of a square. What is the length of the side of the square? Explain how you know.
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Question 852327: Alex reads 24 pages of a book every 1/3 hour. Write an equation that models the relationship between x, the number of hours Alex reads, and y, the number of pages of the book he reads.
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Question 852502: the area i=of a rectangle is 7/8 square foot and the length is 1/4. What is the width?
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Question 852527: the length of the side of a square is 5x +1. what represetns the area of the square?
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Question 852226: The Height of a box is 2 cm less than the width. the length is 3 less than the width. the volume is 50 cm^3. what are the dimensions of the box?
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Question 852120: a piece of a cable 180 feet long costs $67.50. How much will 500 feet cost at the same unit price?
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Question 852518: coast of the compound fertilizer required for the smallest circle
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Question 852584: the perimeter of a rectangle is 52 feet. the length is 2 feet shorter than three times the width. find the area of the rectangle in square feet.
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Question 852702: A rectangular room is 360 cm long and 336 cm wide. Its floor has to be covered with square tiles. What is the length of the largest tile that can be used?
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Question 852654: The distance s of a moving particle along a horizontal line from a fixed point O is given by s(t)=3t^2-8t+4, where s is in meters and t is in seconds. Find the particle�s initial velocity
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