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Question 871475: a rectangular lawn has an area of 667 square meters. Surrounding the lawn is a flower border 4 meters wide. The border alone has an area of 548 square meters.
A circular sprinkler is installed in the middle of the lawn. What is the spraying radius of the sprinkler if it covers the entire yard, including the flower border?
Explain, in detail, all the reasoning, algebra, and problem-solving techniques you use to solve this problem. Represent all variables and include key steps and formulas you used. thank you for your help,
Harry
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Question 872181: lucy has a rectangular plot of land with a length of 20 feet and a width of 10 feet. She wants to design a flower garden in the shape of a circle with two semicircles at each end of the center circle. She will fill in the remaining area with wood chips. If one bag of wood chips covers 5 square feet, how many bags must she buy to fill the shaded area?
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Question 872430: One man starts out from a city and walks North at the rate of 3 kilometers per hour. Three hours later, a second man starts from the same place and walks the same route at 4 kilometers per hour. How far will he have to go before he overtakes the first man?
Equation & answer please! Thank You so much!
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Question 872443: Mike had a cube of unknown dimetions, he cut a slab off the front face of 2 Inchs and a 1 inch slab off the top face the resulting volume was 2184 cubic inches. What were the origional dimensions of the block?
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Question 872454: a square and a rectangle have the same perimeter. the length of the rectangle is 4 cm less then twice the side of the square, and the width of the rectangle is 6 cm less then the side of the square. Find the perimeter of each figure
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Question 872581: The pilot of a helicopter measures the angle of depression to a landing spot to be 18.8 degrees. If the pilot's altitude is 1640 meters, what is the horizontal distance to the landing spot to the nearest meter?
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Question 872580: A surveyor stands 150 fee from the base of a viaduct and measures the angle of elevation to be 42.2 degrees. His eye level is 6 feet above ground. What is the height of the viaduct to the nearest foot?
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Question 872657: I would like to divide wall paneling into 3 equal parts. Each panel measures 3/16 x4ft x 8ft. Can you also tell me if it's better to just divide it into 4 instead and may I have those measurements as well please
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Question 872739: you have a rectangular yard that measures 16 feet long by 14 feet wide. it is covered in grass except for in the center,where there is a circular fountain with a diameter of 4 feet. what is the area of the grass portion of your yard? round your answer to the nearest hundredth
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Question 872843: The length of a rectangle is 8 feet longer than its width. The area is 3500 sq ft.
I have to find the width of the rectangle and just one length because this is for a fence that is connected to the back of a house. The back of the house serves as one fenced area so I just need the length to the part I have to fence.
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Question 872843: The length of a rectangle is 8 feet longer than its width. The area is 3500 sq ft.
I have to find the width of the rectangle and just one length because this is for a fence that is connected to the back of a house. The back of the house serves as one fenced area so I just need the length to the part I have to fence.
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Question 874103: A rectangular box is to have a square base and a volume of 30 ft^3. The material for the base costs 44¢/ft2, the material for the sides costs 10¢/ft^2, and the material for the top costs 32¢/ft2. Letting x denote the length of one side of the base, find a function in the variable x giving the cost (in dollars) of constructing the box.
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Question 597430: David and Sandra Jessee are planning to build a ramp so that the front entrance of their home is wheelchair accessible. The ramp will be 3 feet wide. It will rise 2 inches for each foot length of horizontal distance. Where the ramp meets the porch, the ramp must be 2ft. high. To provide stability for the ramp, the Jessee's will install a slab of concrete 4 inches thick and 6 inches longer and wider than the ramp. The top of the slab will be level with the ground. The ramp may be constructed of concrete or pressure treated lumber. you are to estimate the cost of materials for constructing the slab, the ramp of concrete, and the ramp of pressure treated lumber.
a) determine the length of the base of the ramp
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Question 875359: A square with an area of 144 square centimeters was increased in length, but not width, until the resulting rectangle had a perimeter that was 4 times the perimeter of the original square. By how many square centimeters did the area of the figure increase?
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