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Question 863448: The area of the square is 1/4 squared
What is the lenght of a side? A = S squared.
Please explain how to get the answer. Thanks
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Question 863525: What is the area in kilometers of rectangle if its 300 meters long and 150 meters wide
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Question 863534: Find the area of an isoceles trapeziod that has a perimeter of 90 meters. The longer base is 5 meters less than twice the length of the shorter base. The length of each leg is 3 meters less than the length of the shorter base.
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Question 861283: A rectangle has width the same as a side of a square whose perimeter is 20 m. The length of the rectangle is 9m. Find the perimeter of this rectangle

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Question 863638: A rectangular dog pen which is 5 times as long as it is wide
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Question 863747: Sam and Susy had a 40-by-50 foot rectangular yard. Susy cultivated 2/5 of the area of the yard in flowers, which she grew in an even border around the central grass. Every morning Sam walked the dog once around the central grass area inside the flowers. What distance did he cover in his morning stroll with the dog?
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Question 863774: Find the length of the common chord of two circles of radii 5cm and 26cm, respectively, if the distance between their centers is 17cm.
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Question 863816: A small vegetable garden has an area of 80 square feet. Its length is 2 feet more than the width. Find the dimensions of the garden
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Question 863870: The birthday girl really loves cake! Would she like to eat a fourth of the cake (1/4) or a half of the cake (1/2)? Why?
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Question 864079: Cylinder A has a volume of 360 cm3. Cylinder B has a base and height identical to that of cylinder B, but leans to the right in such a way that its slant length is greater by 4 cm. What is the volume of cylinder B
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Question 864308: A rectangular photo of dimensions 8 cm by 9 cm is placed in a picture frame of uniform width on all sides. The resulting total area (picture and frame) is 210 square cm.
What is the width of the picture frame?
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Question 864391: Wyatts room is a rectangle with a perimeter of 40 feet. The width of the room is 8 feet. What is the length of the room?
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Question 864542:
The width of a box is 5 cm. The length of the box is two times the width. The height is 10 cm longer than the length. What is the volume of the box? (V = lwh

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Question 864555: The length of a rectangle is three times its width. The area of the rectangle is 170 square meters. Find the width?
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Question 864599: a circular pond has a radius of 10 feet. there are plans to build a paved path around the pond. if the path is to be 2 feet wide, how many square feet of paving are needed?
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Question 864642: A rectangular swimming pool is twice as long as it is wide. A small sidewalk surrounds the pool. The walkway is a constant 2ft wide and has an area of 196 square feet. Find the dimensions of the pool.

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Question 864720: SHOW in two ways that (0,-5) (3,-4) (8,0) and (5,-1) are the vertices of a rhombus. PLEASSSE HELP!
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Question 864720: SHOW in two ways that (0,-5) (3,-4) (8,0) and (5,-1) are the vertices of a rhombus. PLEASSSE HELP!
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Question 864899: A right triangle has a perimeter of 26 inches.The length of each side is increased to 7 times it original length. What is the perimeter of the larger triangle in inches?
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Question 864900: The perimeter of a soccer field is 316 meters. The area is 5,985 square meters. What are the dimensions of the field?
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Question 864900: The perimeter of a soccer field is 316 meters. The area is 5,985 square meters. What are the dimensions of the field?
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Question 864937: Find the coordinates of a point equidistant from (-2, 8) (1,-1) and (-8,-4) Please show your solution. Thank you.
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Question 864936: find the point whose distance from (7,-3) is square root of 58 and whose abscissa equals its ordinate. Please show your solution.
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Question 865019: Oscar's dog house is shaped like a triangle tent. The slanted sides are both 5 feet long and the bottom of the house is 6 feet across. What is the height of his dog house, in feet, at its tallest point? (Draw and think)
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Question 865028: Todd has drawn a cul-de-sac for a residential development plan. He used a compass to draw the cul-de-sac so that it would be circular. On his blueprint, the center of the cul-de-sac has coordinates (-1, -1) and a point on the circle is (2, 3). What is the radius of the cul-de-sac?
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Question 865219: i need your help the question is the foundation of a building is in the shape of two adjacent squares. the perimeter of the foundation is 80 m and its area is 325 m^2. find the length of a side of each square. these are the equations i have 4x+ 2y= 80 and x^2 + y^2= 325
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Question 865207: a garden occupies two acres and is in the form of a square. if a pathway goes completely round its inner edge and occupies one eight(1/8) of an acre, what is its width.
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Question 865298: a sec(tor)of a circle with a radius of 5 has an area of 18.75π square unites. what is the central an central angle of the sec(tor) ?
a. 75
b. 135
c.240

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Question 865383: what is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of lengths 96ft and 180 ft
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Question 865450: a rectangular lawn is 10 feet long and 9 feet wide. A concrete path of uniform width and covering an area of 120 sq feet is to be constructed to form a border around the lawn. Write a suitable equation and solve it to find the width of the concrete path.
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Question 865487: The measures of the interior angles of a convex octagon increase by 10 degrees for each angle what is the measure of the largest angle. I tried finding the measure of the interior angle of a regular octagon and I found out that it is 135 degrees. Then, I thought that if I added these numbers (135,145,125,155,115,165,105175) that it might solve the problem, but it was incorrect.
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Question 865553: The area of a triangle is 125 sq inches. The length is 5 more than twice the width. Find the length and the width
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Question 865755: What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (-1,9) and (4,6)?
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Question 865797: The perimeter of a rectangular wildlife preserve is 40km, and its area is 96sq. km. what is the dimensions?
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Question 865856: what is the largest rectangular area that can be enclosed with 16 meters of fence?
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Question 865829: The area of the floor in a square room is 64 square meters. Find the length of a wall of the room.
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Question 866020: A rectangular room is three times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 64 meters. Find the length of the room.
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Question 866323: Oscar is cutting a piece of glass that is 3 feet long on each side. What is the area f the glass?

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Question 866402: if the court is 30 feet long with a perimeter of 106 then how wide is the court
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Question 866520: the number of yards of linoleum needed for a kitchen floor 12ft long and 10 1/2 ft wide is
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Question 866607: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 75 m long. The length of one leg is 51 m less than the other. Find the length of the legs
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Question 866781: A rectangular swimming pool has a perimeter of 140 meters and a length that is 15 meters more than it's width. Find its width and length
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Question 866814: Tony makes a rectangle using 12 blocks. What number of blocks should the length and width of the rectangle be? All 12 blocks are used.

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Question 866497: A sum of money is divided amoung three brothers in the ratio 3:5:4.if one quarter of the smallest share is $540.00,find
(a) the largest share
(b) the original sum of money??
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