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Question 888122: The length of one side of the parallelogram is twice the length of the other side. It's perimeter is 24 cm. Find the length of all the sides pf the parallelogram.
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Question 888363: A light post whose base is 30 ft from a 4 story building has fallen over. If the tip of the post is resting on the roof of the building, how tall is the post? (1 story = 10 ft)
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Question 888542: What is the total area of four walls with 7m long and 2.5m high
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Question 676616: A blueprint for a fence has a scale of 1:40. The fence in the blueprint is 6in. What is the length of the actual fence?
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Question 676616: A blueprint for a fence has a scale of 1:40. The fence in the blueprint is 6in. What is the length of the actual fence?
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Question 888586: A farmer wants to fence in three sides of a rectangular field with 1000 feet of fencing. The other side of the rectangle is a river. If the enclosed area is to be maximum, find the dimensions of the field.
Now I was able to get the area, if I am right, I think the area is 125,000 feet. How do I get the dimensions?

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Question 888473: Show Me The Best Floor Plan!!!
Directions: Use the situation below to answer the questions that follow.
Mr. Luna would like to construct a new house with a floor area of 72 m2. He
asked an architect to prepare a floor plan that shows the following:
a. 2 bedrooms d. Comfort room
b. Living room e. Kitchen
c. Dining room f. Laundry Area
1. Suppose you were the architect asked by Mr. Luna to prepare a floor plan. How
will you do it? Draw the floor plan.
2. Formulate as many quadratic equations using the floor plan that you prepared.
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Question 888741: If the side of a square has a length of 7, then the adjacent side would have a length of 1/7 ?
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Question 888741: If the side of a square has a length of 7, then the adjacent side would have a length of 1/7 ?
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Question 888749: Two poles, A and B, are 12 meters apart. Pole A is 5 meters high. A rope 20 meters long is tied to the top of pole A and stretches to the top of pole B. What is the height of pole B? Assume that pole B is taller than pole A.
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Question 888923: Find the perimeter of a square with a side length of 3 plus 2 square root of 5 inches
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Question 889217: One slice of bread is 80 calorie. Approximately how many calories are in 2 � slices of bread?
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Question 889248: a rectangular garden measures 20 ft by 32 ft. Surrounding the garden is a path 2ft wide. What is the area of the path?
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Question 889244: What are the missing dimensions of a solid rectangle if the volume is x^3+5x^2+8x+4 and the height is x+2?
Hi. I'm Hannah. Need help with this please.
Thank you!

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Question 889260: At the park there is a pool shaped like a circle. A ring shaped path goes around the pool. It's inner diameter is 20 yd and outer is 28 yd. If one gallon of coating can cover 7 yd squared, how many gallons of coating do you need?
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Question 889192: QUESTION 2
A designer is working on a wooden puzzle that is in the shape of an equilateral triangle. He only has a total of 26 inches of wood to use, but he wants each side to be at least five inches. Which of the following systems correctly describe the possible side lengths (s) of the puzzle?

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Question 889218: consider a square and a regular hexagon(a six sided figure with sides of equal length). One side of the square is 20 feet longer than a side of the hexagon and the figures have the same perimeter. What are the lengths of the sides of each figure?

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Question 889411: if chris is 6ft tall and 10inches how tall is he in centimeters

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Question 889573: the lenght of the rectangle is 5 cm less then twice the width. if the perimeter is
greater than 36 cm but less than 50cm, What is the longest possible lenght of the
rectangle?

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Question 889579: pls help to to answer: what is the lenght of the wire where it cut into the ratio of 2:3:5 when its midle part is 7 m?
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Question 889571: insert two geometric means between 2 and 6.25
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Question 889570: What is the lenght of wire cut into the ratio of 2:3:5 where the midle part is 7m?
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Question 889677: the rectangular backyard in betsys new house is four times as long as it is wide. if the area of the backyard is 100 square feet,find the length and width
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Question 889687: 1) The area of a room is 20m2. If its length is increased by 3m and its width is increased by 1m, the area will be enlarged by 100%. Find the original dimensions of the room.
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Question 889697: Given that x^2=y^2 - 4xz, find the value of x when y=1 and z=3/8
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Question 889697: Given that x^2=y^2 - 4xz, find the value of x when y=1 and z=3/8
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Question 889824: in an isosceles triangle the two sides are equal. the third side is two less than twice the length of the sum of the two sides. the perimeter is 40 what are the lengths of the three sides?

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Question 889867: a number is 1/10 less than its multiplicative inverse .find the number

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Question 889867: a number is 1/10 less than its multiplicative inverse .find the number

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Question 889782: A carpenter is constructing a triangular roof support. He knows the 2 lower angles each have a measure of 26�. What is the measure of the third angle on top?

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Question 889972: I need help with this word problem! The question is The area of a triangle is 30 in squared. the base of the triangle is 2 in. more than twice the heigh of the triangle. Find the measures of the base and the height.

I know that area= b x h divided by two but i just don't understand how to solve this one
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Question 889975: a laboratory designed a radio telescope that had a diameter of 360ft and a maximum depth of 38ft.
the locator should be located at approximately how many ft above the vertex
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Question 890008: The sides of a triangular rug are three consecutive even integers. The sum of the two sides is 22 more than the third side. Find the sides of the rug.

I only need the formula. I tried x+22
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Question 890031: Miguel and Jacqui built towers out of craft sticks. Miguel tower had a 4-inch square base. Jacqui's tower had a 6-inch square base. If Miguel's tower had a volume of 128 cubic inches, and Jacqui's had a volume of 288 cubic inches, who tower was taller? Explain your reasoning.

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Question 890221: A rectangular garden has an area of 10 square feet. Four less than the width is equal to 23 less than twice the length.
a) Define variables
b) Write an equation, in standard form, that models the situation.
c) Solve your quadratic equation to find the length and the width.
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Question 890284: find the area of its region if the perimeter of a rectangle is 36 cm.
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Question 890402: you need to put floor covering in bedroom1 nd 2. how much floor covering in squre metre will you need?
length of room 1 is 5.0m and width is 5.0
lenth of room 2 is 4.0m and width is 5.0
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Question 890334: Rewrite and solve the word problems as equations.
The length of a rectangle is 1m longer than the breadth.
If the perimeter is 22m, what is the length.
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Question 890367: The Smith family has a pool 25 feet long and 20 feet wide. There is a walkway 4.5 ft wide around the pool. What is the perimeter of the pool with the walkway included.
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Question 890455: A step ladder has legs of length 2.2m and the maximum distance between the legs is 0.9m. Find the largest possible angle in which the ladder can be opened.
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Question 890606: three bikers,allan,anton, and alex starts at the same spot.allan can complete a whole round in 50 mins,anton in 48 mins,and alex in 36 mins.if they all start at 3 in the afternoon at what time will they be on the same spot again?
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Question 890699: The perimeter of a triangle is 99 cm. The lengths of the three sides are represented by three consecutive odd integers. Find the length of the longest side.
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Question 890700: Two cars are 300 miles apart and travel toward each other on the same road. They meet in 3 hours. One car travels 2 mph faster than the other. What is the average speed of each car?
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