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Question 875535: A parallelogram has a perimeter of 48 kilometers. Two of the sides are 9 kilometers long. What is the length of the other two sides?
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Question 876083: The length of a pond is 15 ft more than 4 times its width. What is the area?

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Question 876089: One number is three times another number and their sum is 32. Find the numbers.
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Question 876067: A board is cut into two pieces. One piece has a length of 68 meters. If the othe piece has a length of w meters,what was the total length of the board, in meters, before it was cut?
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Question 876112: The length of an airplane hangar is 20 ft less than 4 times it's height h. The width of the hangar is 10 ft more than 2 times its height. What polynomial expression represents the volume of
the hangar?
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Question 876122: Find the perimeter of a rectangle whose area is 128 meters squared and whose length is twice it's width.
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Question 876198: Each side of a square plastic tarp is 12 meters long. What is the tarp�s perimeter?

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Question 876197: ) A square patch of grass has an area of 64 square meters. How long is each side of the patch?

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Question 876169: Give the length and width of another rectangular field that has the same perimeter but a larger area.A rectangular field is 125 meters long and 75 meters wide.

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Question 876202: d) The perimeter of a diving board is 4 meters. It is 0.5 meters wide. How long is it?

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Question 876448: If the area of a triangle is 132 inches, what is the height?
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Question 876461: What is the measure of a base angle of an isosceles triangle if the vertex angle measures 38� and each of the two congruent sides measures 21 units?
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Question 876438: Two gardeners are building fences around each of their rectangular 100 square yard gardens. One gardener purchases 62 yards of fencing. The other purchases 30 yards of fencing. Explain the reason for each gardener purchasing different lengths of fencing even though both gardens are 100 yards in area.
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Question 876596: The perimeter of a rectangle is 70inches. The lenght is 5 more tham the width. Whats the lenght of the rectangle
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Question 876571: The perimeter of a diving board is 4 meters. It is 0.5 meters wide. How long is it?

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Question 876570: The perimeter of a diving board is 4 meters. It is 0.5 meters wide. How long is it?

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Question 876610: A bookcase fits diagonally into a corner of a room. The front of the bookcase is 54 inches wide. Each side of the bookcase uses the same amount of wall space.
a. What angles are formed where the front of the bookcase touches the walls?
b. Calculate how much wall space each side of the bookcase uses.
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Question 876647: a table is drawn to scale so that 1mm represents 20cm The actual table has the dimensions 500cm length and 270cm width.
calculate the scale factor
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Question 876648: a table is drawn to scale so that 1mm represents 20cm The actual table has the dimensions 500cm length and 270cm width.
calculate the scale factor?
what are the corresponding dimensions of the image of the table

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Question 876669: A store sells circular rugs in three different sizes. The rugs come in diameters of 8 ft, 12 ft, and 16 ft. Find the areas of the three different sizes of rugs. Use 3.14 for π and round answers to the nearest tenth.

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Question 876721:
A boat drops an anchor to the bottom of a lake. The anchor rope makes a 15 degree angle with the boat. The anchor rope is 24 feet long. How deep is the lake to the nearest foot?
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Question 876686: area of triangle is 81 cm square the measure of height is half of the base what is the measure of triangle base
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Question 876658: A square swimming pool is surrounded by grass which is a square as well. The difference between the perimeters of the two squares is 12 meters and the difference between the areas of the two squares is 39 square meters. What is the length of each square
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Question 876985: How many vertices per base does a heptagonal prism have?
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Question 877024: A rectangular window pane is 12 square feet. The width of the window pane is 1 foot less than its length. What is the width of the window pane?
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Question 877013: A carpenter made a doorway that is 1 foot taller than twice the width. If she used three pieces of door edge molding with a total length of 17 feet, then what are the approximate dimensions of the doorway?
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Question 877121: How long are the sides of a 5,400 square ft. hexagon?
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Question 877239: Joshua's family is starting a business selling maple syrup. They plan to sell the syrup to restaurants in one-gallon cans (1 gallon = 231 in^3). Describe the dimensions of a cylindrical can that will hold one gallon of syrup when full. Justly or explain your answer.
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Question 877351: an altitude of a triangle is 2 cm longer than its base. what are the dimensions of the altitude and the base if the area of the triangle is 40 cm^2
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Question 877404: A rectangle has a perimeter of 140cm. The length of the rectangle is three times the width. Find the difference between the length and the width.
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Question 877465: what are the coordinates of the midpoint of the segment joining (-6,-2) and (-2,-2)
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Question 877506: On a blueprint, the area of a basketball court is 58 square inches. If the scale on the blueprint is 1 inch: 9 feet, what is the actual area of the basketball court?
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Question 877674: A circular pond has a diameter of 7 m a concrete path 2.5 m wide is placed all around it find the area of the path correct to the nearest sqare meter
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Question 877713: Assume that the flask shown in the diagram can be modeled as a combination of a sphere and a cylinder. Based on this assumption, what is the volume of the flask? Round the answer to two decimal places.

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Question 877840: Betty cut a 12 foot board into 2 pieces . one piece is 4 feet less than the other piece, Find the length of the 2 pieces
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Question 877930: ONE SIDE OF A TRIANGLE IS 10 CENTIMETERS LONGER THAN THE SHORTEST SIDE. THE THIRD SIDE IS 20 CM LONGER THAN THE SHORTEST SIDE. IF THE PERIMETER OF THE TRIANGLE IS 120 CM, WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE SHORTEST SIDE OF THIS TRIANGLE?
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Question 877931: The area of a rectangle is 66m^2, and the length of the rectangle is 1m more than double the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 877989: if the wall is 3000mm and you want to put a sign on it that is 2500mm in height, what should the width of the sign be
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Question 878066: I have 2 squares a smaller one with 9 in a bigger one with 21 in I need to find the primer then the ratio of the ares
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Question 878188: If a triangle's area is 330 feet square and the length is 44 feet long what is the height?
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Question 878187: dan needs his spherical balloon to have a circumference to 16 pi inches. how much helium will he use? use 3.14 for pi.

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Question 878322: Kim walked across a rectangular field that measured 100 feet by 240 feet. Which expression could be used to determine how far kim walked?
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