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Question 852851: the length of a rectangle is 2 inches greater than twice the width and it has an area of 24 square feet, find its dimensions ?
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Question 852329: A RECTANGULAR PRISM HAS A LENGTH OF 20 INCHES AND A WIDTH OF 12 INCHES IF ITS VOLUME IS 1440 CUBIC INCHES WHAT IS THE HEIGHT
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Question 852835: A carpenter has to order tile for a bathroom his is building. The bathroom is 5 feet wide and 4 feet long. If each tile is 1 square foot, how many tiles should he order?
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Question 852920: if a 72 meter wire is cut equally in to 8 peices then what is the length of each piece?
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Question 853092: Person 6 feet casting a shadow 1 1/2 feet flag pole is casting a shadow 5 feet how tall is flag pole
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Question 853154: I have a circular pool with a radius of ten feet
They want to install a 3 foot sidewalk around The pool
What will be the area of the sidewalk
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Question 853195: A museum window is formed by adding a semicircle to the top of a rectangle. The base of the rectangle is 2 ft. What is the area of the semicircular part of the window?
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Question 853209: The length of a rectangular piece of carpet is 2 meters less than 5 times its width. Find the dimensions of the carpet if its area is 16 square meters
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Question 853451: a rectangular room is 25 feet narrower than its length. if 1250 square feet of carpet is needed to cover the entire room, what is the length of the room?
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Question 853521: The area of the sahara desert is 7 times the area of the Gobi Desert. If the sum of their area is 4,000,000 sq miles find the area of each desert.
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Question 853578: The perimeter of a lot is 190 meters. The width is one-fouth the length. Find the dimensions.
This is what I'm doing:
W=1/4L
2L+2W=190
2L+2(1/4L)=190
2L+1/2L=190
2 1/2L=190
L= 47 1/2
I looked at my answer key and it says the dimensions are L=76 and W=19. What did I do wrong?

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Question 853659: what is the area of a square with sides 1/4 inch long?
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Question 853716: Pedro has 20 inches of string. He wants to make a rectangle or square with the greatest possible area. How wide should it be? How long should it be?
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Question 854548: A roll of aluminum with a width of 32 cm id to be bent into rain gutters by folding up two sides at 90 degree angles. A rain gutter's greatest capacity, or volume, is determined by the gutter's greatest cross-sectional area.
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Question 854609: OK, so the question is, "A cylinder has a total volume of 154.34 cubic feet. If the cylinder is 9 feet tall, what is the diameter of the circular base?" The problem is, I can't find the diameter. Is there anyway you could help me with this problem?
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Question 854670: A rectangular field is eleven times as long as it is wide. If the perimeter of the field is 2400 feet, what are the dimensions of the field?
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Question 854673: What are the dimensions of the fenced in area if he only has 190 yards and the length is 10 yards more than 5 times the width?
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Question 854738: If x equals 5 inches, what id the difference between the perimeters of the original square and the perimeter of the newly formed triangle

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Question 854772: Two containers are geometrically similar. The height of the smaller one is 8 cm while the larger one is 12 cm. The containers are filled with paint. The cost of the larger one is $40.50. Find the cost of smaller container.
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Question 854818: The legs of an isosceles right triangle measure 6 centimeters. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
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Question 854896: if i know the area of a triangle how do i find the perimeter based on that fact alone?
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Question 854912: you own a lot 260ftx600ft. you wish to build a sidewalk along all four sides. The sidewalk width is to be 3ft wide,from the curb inward, all the way around.
The sidewalk must conform to building code by being 4 inches thick.
cost: Labor in working the concepts=$1.25 per square foot.
concrete,delivered and poured out =$40.00 per cubic yard
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Question 854965: Anna builds a rectangular prism storage container with dimensions of 8 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches. She builds a second container with a greater volume by increasing the dimensions of the rectangular prism to 16 inches by 12 inches by 24 inches.
How will the volume of the second container she builds compare to the volume of the first one?
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Question 855192: The length of a rectangle is 7 feet longer than it is wide. If each side is increased 7 feet, then the area is multiplied by 4. What was the size of the original rectangle?
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Question 855226: the sizes of computer monitors and television screens are found by measuring the length of the diagonal of the rectangular screen. the 50 inch rectangular tv below has a bottom length of 41 inches. what is the height of the screen? Moderate complexity
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Question 855369: Caleb planted a garden in a rectangular shape. The garden is 6 feet wide and 14 feet long. How many rows, 18 inches apart, did he plant lengthwise?
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Question 855207: draw a square of side 6cm circumscribe a circle about that square and then inscribe a circle in the same square.measure the radii of these two circle.
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Question 855324: How many stones will it take to build a wall that is 3 feet and 3 inches by 33 feet, if the stones are 6.5 inches by 16.5 inches?
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Question 855436: Shannon wants to carpet a rectangular room.
The room measures 12 feet, 6 inches long by 9 feet, 9 inches wide.
There is a rectangular area near the door, measuring 2 feet by 3 feet, that she will not carpet.
What is the area of the floor Shannon will carpet?
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Question 855426: If the height of a triangle with a base of 8cm is tripled, its Area is by 96 square centimeters. Find the height of the triangle?
Thank you
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Question 855485: if the perimeter of a rectangle is p m and its area is a sq.m then what is the relation between them.
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Question 855524: I can't figure this out. My text book problem reads as:
The first angle of a triangle is four times as large as the second. The measure of the third angle is 30 degrees less than that of the second. How large are the angles?
So far I know that the formula is A=1/2 bh
I wrote my problem down as
x+4x+x-30=180
6x-30=180
6x=210
Now I am stuck.

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Question 855600: The base of a right triangle is decreasing at a rate of 2 inches per minute, and the height of the triangle is increasing at a rate of 4 inches per minute. When the base of the triangle is 2 feet and the height is 3 feet, how fast is the area of the triangle changing in square inches per minute?
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Question 855839: The area of a rectangular deck can be modeled by f(x) = 2x3 + 30x2 6x 90. If x + 15 represents the width, which expression represents the length?
(Points : 1)
2x2 + 21
2x2 + 6
2x2 + 9
2x2 + 45

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Question 855917: 2 isosceles triangles have legs that are 26 and areas that are equal. If the base of one triangle is 48. Find the base of the other triangle ?
*i know that in an isosceles triangle the sides that are connected to the vertex angle is congruent and the base angles are also congruent* i have tried using the Pythagorean theorem but its not working*(Pythagorean theorem= a^2+b^2=C^2
please do help me and thank you
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Question 855960: Applications of Pythagorean Theorem and Triples
A television has a width: height ratio of 9:3. If the television is advertised as having a 36 inch screen (remember the screen is measured as the diagonal), what is the actual height and width of the television? what is the surface area of the screen?
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Question 856005: The Area of a square is 64 square feet. Find the perimeter of the garden.
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Question 856036: Find the length of a rectangle that has a diagonal of 17 feet and a width of 8 feet?
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Question 856931: a circular well has radius 3 meter if a platform of uniform width of 1.5 meter if laid around it,find the area of the platform
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Question 857060: Please can you help me with this question
Explain the meaning of the ordered pair (3,18)?
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Question 857186: The perimeter of triangle is 480m.the second side is three times the first and the thordvside 60m more than the second.find the dimension of this triangle.

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Question 857194: The top of a rectangular dining room table is 4 times as long as it wide. Find the dimensions of the table if the area is 36 ft.
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Question 857203: Liola drives 15km up a hill that is at a grade of 10 degrees. What horizontal distance has she covered?
could you PLEASE explain how you got the answer?????
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