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Question 867025: The perimeter of a square is 3 yards what is the length of one side of the square in inches?
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Question 867116: If the rectanggular of the room is twice as long as it is wide. It is diveded into two rectangular part by a partition. If the larger part of the room contains 560 square feet, what is the dimension of the entire room.
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Question 867130: orange squash is used to make orange drink
jill is going to make orange drink for 50 people
she is going to make 2 full glasses of drink for each person
she needs 250 milliliters of orange drink for each person here are instructions
for making orange drink
mix 1 part of orange squash with 4 parts of water.
a one liter bottle cost $2
work out the total cost of the bottles of oange juice jill needs to buy
1 liter =1000 milliliters
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Question 867227: overall length of 2 panels where each is 2 � feet long?
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Question 867325: Please help me solve this word problem A circle having diameter of 10 units has to be cut from a square sheet of paper 50 units wide. How many square units of the sheet will be left after the circle is cut out? Round the answer to the nearest hundredths place.
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Question 867323: Please help me solve this word problem A 200 ft. by 180 ft. garden is surrounded by a 3 foot wide flowerbed. A fence on the edge of the flowerbed encloses the entire garden and flower area. What is the area in square feet inside the fence?
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Question 867354: Please help me solve this word problem An equilateral triangle is plotted on a coordinate plane with two vertices at (0,0) and (10,0). What would the coordinates be before the third vertex?
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Question 867352: Please help me solve thsi word problem A tent has slanted sides of a tent 11 feet long that makes an isosceles triangle having a base of 6.Determine the height of the tent.
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Question 867389: If you have a rectangular house that has a length of 2 more than 3 times its width and its perimeter is 68 find the length and width
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Question 867407: in solid mensuration find the length of the diagonal of (a) a square in terms of its edges a;(b) a rectangle in terms od its base b and its altitude h.
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Question 867652: Jim is trying to determine the height of a flagpole using shadows. Jim is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 9 feet long. At the same time of day, and at the same position, the flagpole's shadow is 60 feet long. How tall is the flagpole?
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Question 867843: What is the volume of a hexagon that sides are 10, height is 10, and width is 10
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Question 867917: a paint roller in the shape of a cylinder with a radius of 4cm and a width of 21cm is rolled vertically on a wall.
a) What is the wet path after ten compete rolls
b) what area does the paint cover
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Question 867450: The area of a photograph is 70 square inches. It is 10 inches long. How wide is it?
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Question 868249: The sum of the exterior angles of a dodecagon

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Question 868272: Your perimeter of the block is 2,000 feet around. How many inches would you have to walk to go around it twice?
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Question 868288: Aileen_9
Kelvin is at his house located at (3,4) on a coordinate plane and walks to the store located at (1,0). The store is located exactly half way between kelvin's house and mitch's house. to the nearest tenth, What is the distance between Kelvin's house and Mitch's house
A. 4.2
B.4.5
C.5.7
D.8.9

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Question 868473: Ms. Green is planting a quarter circle garden in her sqare yard. One side of the yard is 30 feet long . What part of her yard will not be included in the garden ? Give your answer to the nearest tenth of a sqare yard .
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Question 868849: Suppose a circle and a square have about the same area. What is the length, s, of the side of the square in terms of the length, r, of the radius of the circle?
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Question 868850: The surface area of a ballon varies directly as the square of its radius. The Area is 325 square inches when the radious is 5 inches. What is the surface area when the radius is 9 inches?
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Question 868922: A rectangular garden plot has a total perimeter of 25 metres. The length is 3 metres more than the width. What are the dimensions of the garden plot?
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Question 869043: I have a word problem that I'm thinking does not have enough info. to solve. The problem is:
"Find the length of the sides of a square if the number of square meters in its area is 1.5 times the number of meters in its perimeter."
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Question 869120: The area of a rectangular garden is 192 square feet. The width is four meters longer than one-half of the length. Find the length and the width of the garden.
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Question 869228: The area of a square garden is 324ft squared. How long is each side of the garden
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Question 869228: The area of a square garden is 324ft squared. How long is each side of the garden
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Question 869217: The sides of a triangle are in the extended ratio of 3:2:4. If the length of the shortest side is 6 cm,what is the length of the longest side?
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Question 869200: You have a square and a rectangle and are told their combined area is 67. You are told the rectangle has a width of 3 cm more than the length of a side of the square and the rectangle has a width 2 cm more than the length of a side of the square. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

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Question 869151: A spoke of a wheel makes 30 revolutions while the wheel is going 430 feet. Find the diameter of the wheel to the nearest whole number.
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Question 869010:
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Question 349989: A landscaper, who just completed a rectangular flower garden measuring 6 feet by 10 feet, orders 1 cubic yard of premixed cement, all of which is to be used to create a border of uniform width around the garden. If the border is to have a depth of 3 inches, how wide will the border be?
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Question 869209: You have 180 yards of fencing to use on three sides of a garden. The fourth side is the tool shed.
a. What is the maximum area that you can fence?
b. What are the dimensions of the garden?
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Question 869674: How many 1/8 inch cubes will fit in a rectangular prism that is 4x 8 x 1/2. I know the answer is 128 and I can solve it mathematically but when I draw it i get 256. Can you explain how to draw the solution. I think the error has to do with my dimensions being in inches and the volume of the cube is in cubic inches. Thank you!
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Question 869796: the area of a triangle is 8346 sqm. and two of its interior angles are 37�25' and 56�17'. What is the length of the longest side?
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Question 869897: A gift store is making a mixture of almonds, pecans, and peanuts, which sells for $4.50 per pound, $4 per pound, and $3 per pound, respectively. The storekeeper wants to make 50 pounds of mix to sell at $4.30 per pound. The number of pounds of peanuts is to be three times the number of pounds of pecans. Find the number of pounds of each to be used in the mixture.
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Question 869896: A rectangular piece of cardboard is 7 inches long and 5 inches wide. From each corner, a square piece is cut out, and then the flaps are turned up to form an open box. Use a graphing utility to determine the length (to the nearest tenth) of a side of the square pieces so that the volume of the box is as large as possible
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Question 870003: A boy is 4 feet 8 inches tall. If he could walk around the Earth one time on the equator, the top of his head would travel farther than his feet. Assuming that the equator is a perfect circle, how much farther would the top of his head travel than his feet (in inches)?
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Question 870220: Find area of curve y^2=2x and line y=4x
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Question 870231: Find area of curve y^2=2x and line y=4x
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Question 870400: A landscaper working at a constant rate can lay 3 squares of sod in 5 minutes. Working at this rate, how many squares of sod can he lay in 2 hours?
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Question 870506: One leg of a right traingular piece of land has a length of 72 feet. The hypotenuse has a length of 74 yards. The other leg has a length of 10x yards. What is the value of x
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Question 870663: Which letters have a line of rotation? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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Question 870831: If the garden is 96 ft squared and I want to plant 4 flowers per square foot how many flowers will I plant?
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Question 870900: Find the height of a rectangle with a base of 11cm and area of 55cm
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Question 870959: How many full circles with a diameter of 2 feet can fit inside of a triangle with an area of 125,000 feet squared?
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