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Question 857623: The perimeter of a garage is 80 feet. The height is 10 feet. What is the lateral surface area of the garage?
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Question 857590: Driveway pavers are 4 inches by 8 inches. If your driveway is 12224 square inches, how many pavers do you need for your driveway?

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Question 857871: A 12 foot rope is cut into two pieces so that one piece is 3 feet less than twice the length of the other piece. How long is each piece

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Question 857955: A square is cut out of each corner of a rectangle sheet of aluminum that is 30 cm by 90 cm. The sides are folded up to form a rectangular container with no top. The area of the bottom of the container is 1600cm^2. What are the dimensions of each cut out square? Find the volume of the container? (V= lwh)
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Question 858142: a square bathroom tile is measures 4 1/3 by 4 1/3 what the perimeter

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Question 858174: A rectangular field is 4 times as long as it is wide. If the length is decreased by 10 feet and the width is increased by 2 feet, the perimeter will be 80 feet. Find the dimensions of the original field The original dimensions are feet long by feet wide.
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Question 857210: What equals to 14 in length times width times height?

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Question 858232: A lot is in the shape of a right triangle. The shorter leg measures 180 meters. the hypotenuse is 60 meters longer then the length of the longer leg.
How long is the longer leg?
So confused
Thank you
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Question 858233: Confused????
The height of a triangle is 5 cm less than the length of the base. If the area of the triangle is 117 cm^2, find the height and length of the base?
Thank you
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Question 858432: A corner lot that originally was square lost 185 meters squared of area when one of the adjacent streets was widened by 3 meters and the other was widened by 5 meters. Find the new dimensions of the lot.
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Question 858422: A rectangular swimming pool is three times as long as it is wide and is surrounded by a deck 2.5m wide. Find the dimensions of the pool if the area of the deck is 265 meters squared.
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Question 858547: the surface area of a cube is 96 yards. what is the value of length, height, and width?
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Question 858616: the product of two numbers is 162. if their sum is 27, what is their ratio?
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Question 858653: A basketball court measures 94 feet in length and w feet in width. Its perimeter is 288 feet. Which value of w makes the equation 2(94) + 2w = 288 true
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Question 858694: There are 2856 three's in the product of 51 and a number. What is the number?
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Question 858811: if a circular track has an area of 314 ft squared, how many feet is twice around the track?
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Question 858920: the length of a square is increased by 2. Three times the area of the new square is 75. Find the length of the original square. I got 22 but I'm pretty sure that's wrong
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Question 858989: A garden path around a circular garden is 5 feet wide all they way around and the distance around the outside of the garden path is 80 feet. If a bag of gravel will cover an area of 10 square feet, how many bags of gravel will the gardener need to cover the path? Explain
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Question 859052: Find the volume of a cube with the given side length.
8 units

A.
24 cubic units

B.
64 cubic units

C.
512 cubic units

D.
4096 cubic units

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Question 859045: This is a calculus problem. Consider the graph of y= root x. There is some point on this graph that is closest to (4,0). What is the x-coordinate of that nearest point?
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Question 859044: He wants to trim the large green triangle into a smaller triangle by cutting along the dotted line shown. If the red segment along the left side of the triangle measures 45 cm and the blue segment along the bottom of the triangle measures 81 cm, what is the length of poster board that Maurice cut?
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Question 859077: Help please, show all work.
Find the axis of symmetry and the vertex of the graph of y=3x^2+12x+8.
thank you.
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Question 859107: Help please, and show all work please.
Find the zeros and the axis of symmetry of the parabola.
Thanks! copy & paste the link to see the parabola below is the link please.
http://prntscr.com/364dki
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Question 859200: Mr. and Mrs. Lin have a rectangular swimming pool that is 8 feet deep,20feet long, and 14 feet wide.What is the volume of their pool?
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Question 859237: A trapezoid with an area of 48m has a height of 6m. One of the bases is 12m. I need to solve the equation to find the length of its other base?
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Question 859243: You are standing 16 feet
from a circular swimming pool. The distance
from you to a point of tangency is 25 feet.
What is the approximate diameter of the
pool?
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Question 859214: What is the area of a rectangle when it is 6 feet long and 2 feet wide and then you add 3 feet to it?

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Question 859281: Toby has 18 feet of edging to go around a rectungular sandbox. What length and width should Toby make the sandbox to get the most area
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Question 858833: The length of a football field is 180 feet more than its width. If the perimeter of the field is 1,060 feet, find the length of the field.
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Question 859489: The length of a rectangle is 4 centimeters more than its width. If the length is increased by 8 centimeters and the width is decreased by 4 centimeters, the area will remain unchanged. Find the original dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 859523: when 3 inches are added to each side of a square, its area increases by 57 square inches. What was the perimeter of the initial square?
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Question 859485: The sides of a square are x feet long. Write an expression that represents the area of the square in square feet if the length of the side of the square is changed to one less than three times the lenght of the side of the square.
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Question 859566: I need the awnser for an equation of a pool 10 feet long and 5 feet wide and it has 26 tiles around counting corners

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Question 859622: A round, 6 ft wide hot tubis being built into a 12 ft by 30 ft rectangular deck. How much decking is needed for the surface of the deck?

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Question 859809: A rectangular garden is 24 feet long. If you walk diagonally across the garden, you would walk 30 feet. How many feet wide is the garden?
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Question 859900: Anna has a square piece of construction paper with an area of 49 square inches. What is the length of one side of annas construction paper in inches?
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Question 860203: A 12-foot ladder rests against the side of a house. The base of the ladder is 3 feet away from the side of the house. How high above the ground is the top of the ladder? Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 860265: A football field is 40 yards wide and 120 yards long. Find the distance between opposite corners of the football field. Show your work and explain your reasoning.
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Question 860267: A football field is 40 yards wide and 120 yards long. Find the distance between opposite corners of the football field. Show your work and explain your reasoning. Please please help me I'm so confused:(

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Question 860274: find the measure of this angle.
m<4=111
m<5=

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Question 860286: The area of a square is 1/4 square yards. What is the length of a side
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Question 860237: Solve: The number of square units in the are of the square base of a walled enclosure is 12 more than the number of units in its perimeter. Find the length of a side.
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Question 860304: A rectangular swimming pool is 10ft longer than it is wide, and it has a surrounding deck of width 3ft on each side. If the area of the pool and deck is 1, 656 square feet, find the dimensions of the outside edge of the deck.
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