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Question 890629: A picture 16 inches by 20 inches is to be mounted on a piece of matboard so that there is an even amount of mat all around the picture. How wide will the border be if the area of the border is 352 square inches?
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Question 890775: The width of a rectangle is 15 cm. What length will make the area at least 225 cm?
Im having difficulty knowing how to start this problem. I divided 225 by 15 and got 15. However im not sure if this is correct.
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Question 890813: A concrete path of a fixed width will be added around a rectangular garden that measures 10 feet by 13 feet. If there is enough material to cover 108 square feet, how wide will the concrete path be?
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Question 890733: the circular top of a coffee table is to have an area differing from 225 pi in^2 by less than 4 in^2. How accurately must the radius of the top be measured? delta is less than or equal to 0.1

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Question 891021: Please help me with conversion.thanks in advance. 4.5m/s = ______ km/h; 3.5g/cm^3 = _________ kg/m^3; Please include a little explanation.thanks so much
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Question 891033: A rectangle is 5 yards longer in its length than its width. Its perimeter is 38 feet find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 891071: the volume v of a pyramid varies jointly with the area of its base, A, and its hiegh, h. If the volume is 75ft when the area of the base is 45 ft and the hieght is 5 ft, what is the volume when the area of the base is 100ft and the height is 6 ft?

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Question 891170: How many square yards of carpeting are needed to cover a floor that measures 8yd by 5yd?

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Question 891176: Two tangents are drawn to the circle C, such that they meet each other at a point outside the circle making an angle of x degrees. If the angle subtended by the two points of contact at the centre of the centre of the circle is 65 degrees, what is x?
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Question 891296: if a triangle has an area of 400 square inches and the base of the triangle is 10 inches what is the height of the triangle
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Question 891360: A number is formed by writing the numbers 1 to 30 in order as shown
12345678910111213.........2930
Simon removed 45 of these 51 digits leaving 6 in their original order to make the largest 6 digit number possible. What is the sum of the digits of this number?
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Question 891393: How can one cut eight pieces from a round cake with three straight slices of a knife, without moving any pieces? Please show a picture of how to do it.
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Question 891394: An eight gallon jug is full and both a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug are empty without using any other containers, divide the water into equal amounts.
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Question 891616: The length of a rectangle is 3 feet less than twice the width of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 144 feet, find the width and the length.
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Question 891601: Given a wire that is 90cm long you have two identical squares. They are connected by "4 vertices" wires to form a box. Derive a function for the vole of the box.
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Question 891831: Pamela wants to plant a triangular garden in her backyard and has 45 square feet of soil to use. She wants the base of her garden to line up against the back of her shed which is 10ft long. What will be the height of her garden?
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Question 891929: The longest side of a triangle is three times as long as the shortest side and 6cm longer than the third side. If the total length of the three sides is 99cm, find the length of each side.
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Question 892079: if one side of a square is 2x-5 cm. find its area
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Question 892301: a square board has an area of 169 sq. cm. what is the perimeter
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Question 892432: A baby's crib has an area of 1,131 square inches and a perimeter of 136 inches. What are the dimensions of the crib?
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Question 892435: A baby's crib has an area of 1,131 square inches and a perimeter of 136 inches. What are the dimensions of the crib?
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Question 892566: The dimension of a rectangle are 30 cm and 18 cm. when its length decreased by x cm and its width is increased by x cm, its area is increased by 35 sq cm. Find the value of x.
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Question 892622: Log 27=
1/3
Log one third of 27 equals=
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Question 892834: the perimeter of a square is 12 cm greater than that of another square. Its area exceeds the area of the other by 39 cm^2> find the perimeter of each square
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Question 892856: A table is two feet longer than it is wide. What are five possible areas for the table?
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Question 892949: A carpenter wants to cut 1ft3ftfrom an 8ft
Board.how long is the remaining board
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Question 892985: if y=x+2
y=x-3
y=2
y=-3 draw the graph and find the area enclosed by the four lines

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Question 893054: A 20 km long, 8 m wide, two-lane highway is to be paved with a 4 cm thick layer of asphalt. A fleet of three dumptrucks is to be employed, each with an empty mass of 20 metric tons and a carrying capacity of 20 m^3. Asphalt with a density of 0.72 g/cm^3 will be used. Determine �
a.the total volume of asphalt needed
b.the number of dumptruck loads required
c.the gross mass of each truck
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Question 893152: Gerry wants to fence a rectangular field whose area is 1200 sq.m. He has only 100 meters of fencing so he decided to fence only the three sides of the rectangle letting the wall be the fourth side. How wide should the rectangle be?
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Question 893210: Container consist of a cylinder and a semisphere both having a diameter of 20cm. The perpendicular height of the cylinder is 30cm ..calculate the total volume of the container....

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Question 893340: A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. What is the perimeter if its area is 32 cm2?

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Question 893340: A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. What is the perimeter if its area is 32 cm2?

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Question 893465: A chalkboard has a length of 10 feet and a width of 3 feet.
What is the area of the chalkboard in square feet?
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Question 893500: a carpenter has a wooden dowel that is 72 cm long. she wants to cut it into two equal pieces so that one piece is 5 times as long as the other. what are the lengths of the two pieces
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Question 893676: Hello i would like some help with a word problem Ive been having trouble with. it is '' The perimeter of a rectangle is the sum of the lengths of its four sides. Find the perimeter of the rectangle below when x= 2ft". On the right side of the rectangle is the variable x by itself. on the bottom is 3x+1. I'm sorry if it seems long but i would really appreciate the help. Thank you in advance.

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Question 893777: Given the number sequence 4, 10, 16, 22, 28.........what is the 30th term in the sequence ? (Write an algebraic equation!)
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Question 893778: find the total surface area and the volume of a closed cylindrical container with radius 5cm and a height of 34cm
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Question 893974: Rate----what is 7.40 for 5 pounds
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Question 894122: An equilateral triangle has a perimeter of 18 inches. What is the perimeter of a square whose sides measure the same length as the side of the triangle?
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Question 894107: how much will it cost to carpet a rectangle room measuring 11m by 23m , if carpeting costs $33.00
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Question 894193: The perimeter of a square is 20 ft. If you increase the length of the square by 2 feet and decrease the width by 1 foot, what is the area, in square feet, of the new figure?

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Question 894412: If you fold a square paper vertically, the new rectangle has a perimeter of 39 inches. What is the area of the original square? What is the perimeter of the original square? What is the area of the resulting rectangle?
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Question 894451: find the equation of the right angled isosceles triangle whose vertex is (-2,-3) and whose base is x=0. Plz provide me the answer with detail?
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Question 894431: Tanya rubs diagonally across a rectangle filed that has a length if 40yards and a width of 30 yards what is the length of the diagonal
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