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Question 90166: The length of a rectangle is 3 times as much as the width. the width is given as 6. find the length and the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 90234: What is the perimeter and the area of a room:if the room is 15 feet long & long 12 feet wide?
Any help with this problem,would be greatly appreciated:)
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Question 90479: The shorter parallel side of a trapezoid is equal to its height and the longer side is 3/2 times as long. If the area is 80, find the lengh of the shorter side.
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Question 90916: A course for cross-country skiing is regulated so that the slpoe of any hill cannot be greater than 0.33. Suppose a hill rises 60 meters over a horizontal distance of 250 meters. Does the hill meet the requirement? Show all work.
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Question 90920: A tinsmith has a rectangular piece of tin with a 3-inch square cut from each corner so that the sides can be folded uo to form a box. She has described the box so that it is twice as long as it is wide. What are the dimensions of the box if it has a volume of 1350 cubic inches?
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Question 90919: What is the maximum number of whole bricks in a wall 25 inches wide and 7 inches high if each brick is 8 inches wide by 2 inches high and there is 1/2 inch of mortar between each brick?
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Question 91021: What is the equation of line L?
L has y-intercept (0,-3) and is parallel to the line with equation y=2/3x + 1.
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Question 90978: A standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper is rolled along it's short side to form a cylinder. A second sheet of standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper is rolled along it's longer side to form a second cylinder. There is no overlap. Will the taller cylinder have the same volume, greater volume, or less volume than that of the short cylinder?
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Question 91039: A ribbon has been placed around the earth's equator. Ten feet has been added to the original ribbon and the new ribbon has been uniformly placed around the equator.
Note: the circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles and 1 mile= 5,280 feet

What would be the largest thing you would be able to slide between the original ribbon and the new ribbon: a sheet of paper, your finger, a golf ball, a baseball, or a basketball?
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Question 91215: Take a 9in x 12in piece of construction paper and make an open box with no lid that will maxamize volume. You may cut and tape the construction paper as many times as needed. The box will compare among the classes boxes and I want the box that holds the most rice krispies. Include an information sheet that explains why you chose the dimentions.
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Question 91293: The volume of a cube is given by V = s^3, where s is the length of a side. Find the length of a side of a cube if the volume is 800 cm^3. Round the answer to three decimal places
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Question 91709: If Steven can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them working together to mix the 20 drinks?
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Question 92381: the total area of six faces of a cube is 240 cm^2 how long to the nearest 10th is one egde
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Question 93071: The length of a rectangle exceeds its width by 2 feet. If each dimension was increased by 3ft., the area would increased by 51 square feet.. Find the original dimensions.
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Question 93541: please help me with this question:
The area of a rectange is 338 mm squared. the height is thirteen less than three times teh base. What is the perimeter?
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Question 93919: I am having trouble with this word problem. Pleas, can someone help me?
Length of a rectangle is 2 inches more than twice its with. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 34 inches, find the dimension of the rectangle.
Thank you.
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Question 94092: Find the circumference of a circle with the area 36pi square centimeters?
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Question 94092: Find the circumference of a circle with the area 36pi square centimeters?
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Question 94098: simplify x^3x^6
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Question 94103: The length of a rectangle is 3cm greater than its width. The perimeter is 24 cm. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
-----thanks again for all your help-----
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Question 94106: Can you solve the equation using quadratic formula x^2-5x-24=0 can you please show me the steps so I can do the next one on my own.
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Question 94370: Here is the problem I am having trouble with:The length of a rectangle is 2 cm more than 5 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 65 cm2, find the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest thousandth.I know the width will be x and the length will be 5x+2 but I'm not sure how to proceed. Can you help? Thanks
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Question 94499: Hello,

I need help solving this problem:

A rectangle is 6 centimeters wide and 9 centimeters long. If the length and width are increased by the same amount, the area is increased by 100 square centimeters. Find the new dimensions.

Thank you
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Question 94558: Show the conjecture is false by finding a counter example.
The quotient of two whole numbers is a whole number.
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Question 94701: If 1 gallon of paint covers 400 square feet, about how many gallons of paint are needed to paint the outside of a spherical tank of diameter 20 feet?
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Question 94704: The diameter of the moon is approximately one fourth the diameter of Earth, hence the volume of the moon is one fourth the volume of Earth. Is it true or false?
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Question 95189: Hello! This problem has got me here for a good hour and I still cannot figure it out.
A traveling salesperson shows up at the apartment of a math teacher to peddle her wares. During the course of her spiel, the salesperson discovers that the teacher has 3 children and inquires as to their ages.
The teacher answers, "The sum of my children's ages is 13."
The salesperson immediately declares, "That's not enough information to deduce your kid's ages!"
The teacher continues, "Well, the product of their ages is the same as my apartment number."
After taking a quick check of the apartment number, the salesperson thinks for a minute but then sighs, "That's STILL not enough information for me to figure out."
So the teacher says, "Oh, I forgott to mention, my eldest child is allergic to chocolate."
At which point the salesperson exclaims, "Aha, now I know all their ages!"
What are the ages of the children?

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Question 95253: If the length of a rectangle is decreased by 2 inches and its width is increased by 2 inches, the area of the rectangle increases by 16 square inches. If the length is increased by 5 inches and the width is decreased by 3 inches, the area of the rectangle increases by 15 square inches. What is the area of the original rectangle?
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Question 95455: The length of a rectangle is 5 cm more than 4 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 80 cm2, find the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest thousandth.

Please Help!
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Question 95605: The volume of a can of soup is 144 PI inches cubed. The radius of the can is 6 inches. What is the height of the can?
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Question 95856: To support a young tree, you attach wires from the trunk to the ground. The obtuse angle the wire makes with the ground is supplementary to the acute angle the wire makes, and it is four times as large. Find the measures of the angles.
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Question 96033: The state of Wyoming is rectangular shape. The length of this rectangular state is 185 miles less than twice the width. If the state's perimeter is 1280 miles, what are the dimensions?
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Question 96166: hello. i have a question. about this problem i have been working on can u help?
the length of a rectangle is 2x-5 and its width is x+9. express the area of the rectangle. express the perimeter.
please help me.
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Question 96779: i need help with this problem- question is: the smallest angle in a triangle is half the largest angle. the middle angle measures 30 degrees less than the largest angle. find the measures of each angle.
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Question 96806: A farmer has 26 meters of fencing available to enclose a rectangular region. he wants the rectangular garden to have an area o 40 square meters. find the dimension of the garden.
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Question 96841: The problem goes on like this one:
"the sum of two numbers is equal to 20. the larger number is 3 times bigger than the other number. Find the numbers."
could you please help me? solve this by using a quadratic formula, completing the square or by factoring..thanks,.=)
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Question 96916: Grant Wood painted his most famous work, American Gothic, in 1930 on compositition board with perimeter 108,44 in. If the painting is 5.54 in. taller than it is wide, find the dimensions of the painting.
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Question 96915: The Bermuda Triangle supposedly causes trouble for aircraft pilots. It has a perimeter of 3075 mi. The shortest side measures 75 mi less than the middle side, and the longest side measures 375 mi more than the middle side. Find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 97031: Bob fenced in a rectangular garden in his yard. The length of the rectangle is 6 feet longer than the width and the perimeter is 104 feet. What is the width of the rectangle?
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Question 97137: One leg of a right triangle is 2 in. longer than the other leg. The hypotenuse is 10 in. long. What are the lengths of the legs of the triangle?
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