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Question 5367: Please someone help me quick! My son has 3 more test to take this summer and we are really having a hard time. It's been way too long since I have had math.
The problem is:
The perimeter of a rectangular field is 60 meters. Its area is 200 square meters. Find its dimensions.
Thank you in advance for your help. I LOVE THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!
Mom in trouble deep!
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Question 5370: I need help again. I am sorry but I keep running into these questions and I can't explain it to my son until I know how to do it myself.
How high must a crate be in order to hold 120 cubic meters if it has a base area of 24 square meters?
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Question 5372: I'm sorry, I need help again.
What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square centimeters?
A=pi r(squared) for pi they are using 22/7 if I am right that is 3.14?
154=3.14 r(squared)
This is as far as I can get because I can not remember how to do the squared.
After this I am going to bed. My brain is fried trying to fiqure all these out and trying to explain them to him in the process.
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Question 5720: The area of a triangle is 37 square feet and the height is 10 feet. Find the base? I know that Area = 1/2 base height. The Area is 37 square feet and the height is 10 feet. I am lost can you help me? please?
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Question 6543: Show that quadrilateral ABCD can be inscribed in a circle if and only if angle B and angle D are supplementary.
Hint: To proveif, show that D lies on the unique circle through A, B, and C.
Note: A quadrilateral inscribed in a cricle is said to be cyclic.
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Question 6660: Hi,
I have tried this but am new to it and not sure.
Question is: The coordinates of three vertices of a rectangle are (-2,1), (0,-1), and (3,2). First part - What is the fourth vertex? I said (5,0). Is that correct? Second part - What is the length of the diagonal of the rectangle? I said the rise is 2 and the run is -2, making the slope -1, is that the length?
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Question 6771: In 1974, the French Army sent soldiers up in hot air balloons to observe enemy troop movements. One such balloon, L'Entrepenant, had a volume of 256 (pi)/3.
a)Solve the formula for the volume of a sphere (V=4/3 (pi)r (cubed) for r cubed. Then use this formula to calculate the radius of the L'Entrepenant balloon.
b) What was the diameter of the L'Entrepenant balloon?
UGH!
i appreciate your time- this is my step-daughter's homework problem and it has us both baffled!
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Question 7290: Please help me answer these questions..
1)determine whether ecah of the following best suggest a point, a line,, or none of these.
a) a farmer's field.
B) a telephone wire.
c) a parking lot.
d) your hometown on a large map.
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Question 7323: Lightning hit a tree three-eights of the distance up the trunk from the ground and broke the tree so that its top landed 40 ft from the base of the trunk. Creates a triangle. Question is How tall was the tree originally. I said a2+b2=c2, so 1600+.140625(change 3/8 to decimal)= then it all falls apart from there.
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Question 7331: Please help me solve this word problem.
A rectangular room has an area of 101.500000 square feet and a perimeter of 43 feet. What are the dimensions of the room? Find the exact solution.
I know that area = lw and perimeter = 2(l + w) and I know that this will end up being a quadratic equation. Not sure how to plug everything in and solve.
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Question 7310: Im confuse to how to do this but can you help to solve this equation...
write the equation of the line and graph.
1) slope=-2/3, y-intercept=-8
2) slope=3, cointains point(2,1)
3) passes through(-2,2) and (2,-10)
thank you very much! it will really help me alot if you help with this one..
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Question 7664: Solve the problem
PERIMETER OF A RECTANGLE. The perimeter of a rectangular backyard is 6x + 6 yards. If the width is x yards, find a binomial that represents the length.
I'm lost. It's probably so easy, but I'm missing it.
Is it (3x + 3) + (3x + 3)??
Or do you have to do the FOIL method?
Pleae help!!!! Thank you so much.
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Question 7952: Hello I have tryed this many was and am unclear as to how to do it.
The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 ft less than twice its width. if the perimeter of the playing field is 230 ft find the lenght and the width of the field.
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Question 7952: Hello I have tryed this many was and am unclear as to how to do it.
The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 ft less than twice its width. if the perimeter of the playing field is 230 ft find the lenght and the width of the field.
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Question 7893: A triangle has perimeter 29 cm. The sides have lengths that are consecutive odd integers. What is the length of the longest side? I have tried x+x+2+x+4=29, but apparently this is not right since I can't come up with an answer. Can you help?
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Question 7183: The perimeter of a rectangle is 52 inches. If the length of the rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its width, what are the demensions of the rectangle. Can you show me the operation to solve?
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Question 8057: Thank you so much for your help !!!!
There are 850 dougles fir and ponderosa pine trees in a section of forest bought by Sawz logging co. The company paid an average of 300.00 for each douglas fir and 225.00 for each ponderosa pine. If the company paid 217,500.00 for the trees how many of each kind did the company buy?
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Question 8058: I have looked at this till i can not see and i have no idea what is wrong.
Question is:
A common mistake when solving equations is the following
The equation: 2(x-2)=x+3
First step in solving: 2x-2=x+3
Write a clear explination of what error has been made. what could be done to avoid this error..
That is how it is wrion in the book can you help me thanks so much!
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