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Question 897240: The area of a square poster is 27 inches squared. Find the length of one side of the poster.
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Question 897266: How many posts 2 m apart are needed to fence a yard 16 m by 12 m?
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Question 897667: Given that the area of an equilateral triangle is 192 cm2, find its perimeter.
Note: Your answer must be a number. No arithmetic operations are allowed.
Can you explain to me how I do this exercise?
Thanks
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Question 897721: A large grain silo is to be constructed in the shape of a circular cylinder with a hemisphere attached to the top. The diameter of the silo is to be 30 feet, but the height is yet to be determined. Find the height h of the silo that will result in a capacity of 11,925π ft3.
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Question 897781: what is the perimeter of a room 15 feet to 21 feet?
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Question 897939: The difference of 5 times a number and 9 equals the number increased by two. What is the number?
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Question 898073: A man has a lot with a frontage of 26 yds 2 ft. He wishes to set 5 shade trees along the front, equally spaced, one at each end with three between. How far apart will they be?
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Question 897940: You have 24.75 to spend on pizza. It costs 12$ for a cheese pizza plus $1.65 for each additional topping, tax included. Solve to find the maximum number of toppings the pizza can have. (write an inequality and solve)
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Question 897902: maggie has lots of tiles all in the shape of regular polygons the edges of the tiles have the same length shoe places two 12 sided tiles to meet edge to edge maggie places a different shaped tile with these tiles she finds that the 3 tiles tessellate by calculation find the number of sides of tuis third tile show all workings
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Question 897997: A man has a lot with a frontage of 26 yds 2 ft. He wishes to set 5 shade trees along the front, equally spaced, one at each end with three between. How far apart will they be?
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Question 898032: An angle's measure is 3 times the measure of its complement . Find the measure of the angle and the measure of its complement .
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Question 898207: it says on my h.w paper thatt use x2 on a calculator and theres a square drawn on my paper and on one side its 18cm and on the other side it says 18cm and the other two side dont have a number written next to it so can i know what the square root is of that
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Question 898221: An airplane left at 12:00 PM flying towards Chicago at a constant speed of 500 miles per hour. At 3:00 PM the airplane was 2,000 miles from Chicago.
Which equation represents this situation if x is the number of hours after 12:00 PM and y is the number of miles from Chicago?
A. y=2000+500x
B. y=2000 - 500x
C. y=3500-500x
D. y=3500+500x
E. y=1500+500x
I think it's B, because at 3:00 pm it was 2,000 miles and going 500 mph. Is that right?
thanks for the help.
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Question 898214: An airplane left at 12:00 PM flying towards Chicago at a constant speed of 500 miles per hour. At 3:00 PM the airplane was 2,000 miles from Chicago.
Which equation represents this situation if x is the number of hours after 12:00 PM and y is the number of miles from Chicago?
A. y=2000+500x
B. y=2000 - 500x
C. y=3500-500x
D. y=3500+500x
E. y=1500+500x
I think it's B, because at 3:00 pm it was 2,000 miles and going 500 mph. Is that right?
thanks for the help.

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Question 898163: there are 75 questions on a college entrance examination. two points are awarded for each correct anser, and one-half point is deducted for each wrong answer. a score of 100 indicates how many correct answers, assuming that all questions are answered?
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Question 898355: The difference of two numbers is 7 and the sum of their squares is 137.
Find the numbers.
The sum of two numbers is 8; the square of the first minus twice the
square of the second equals 7. Find them.

Find two numbers that differ by 8 and whose product is 273.

There is a rectangle whose perimeter is 46 meters and whose area is
112 square meters. What are its dimensions?
The sum of the areas of two squares is 325 square meters. The side of
one increased by the side of the other is 25 meter. Find the length of a
side of each.

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Question 898178: the length of rectangular lot is three times its width.If the length is increased by 5 feet and the width is decreased by 2 feet, the area of the lot is decreased by 21 square feet. Find the dimension.
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Question 897789: a rectangular garden which is 60 meters long has an area of 2880 sq. meter. the light pillars are installed at an interval of 6 meters along each length. How many light pillars are installed in the garden?
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Question 898364: The difference of two numbers is 7
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Question 898436: divide 110 into two parts so that one
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Question 898607: Each equal side of an isosceles triangle is 3.5 inches longer than the base. The perimeter of the triangle is 2 feet. Find the length of the base.
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Question 898810: A vacant lot in the shape of a rectangle measures 120 feet by 80 feet. What is the area of the lot?
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Question 899001: . A square hall has a rug and an uncarpeted area of tile floor bordering it that is 2 feet on each side. What is the size of the carpet if the uncarpeted area is 152 square feet?
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Question 898976: The length of the wall is 17m more than its width. If the area of the wall is less than 60m^2, what could be its possible length?
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Question 899159: The area of a circle is equal to the area of a square measuring 5 centimeters on each side. Find the radius if the circle.

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Question 899290: A 100-foot rope is cut into three pieces. The third piece is triple the size of the first piece. The second piece is 4 times the size of the first piece. What is the length of the shortest piece of rope?

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Question 899297: The perimeter of a rectangle is 180 and the length is 2 times the amount of the width. How do I find the length and width?
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Question 899335:
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Question 899335:
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Question 899331: My question is:
Concrete contracts as it dries. If the volume of a cube-shaped concrete block is 29 cm^3 less and each edge is 0.10 cm less after drying, what is the original length of an edge of the block?
I have tried making an equation to solve and it ended up looking like this: 'Let the side of the cube before it contracts = s'

But, as you can probably tell this got me nowhere fast.
Thank you for your help!
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Question 899363: A swimming pool company constructs rectangular pools each 4m wide and 5m long. There are non-slip square tiles, 50cm by 50cm, which can be used for external edging around the pool where the swimmers walk. How many tiles are needed for one row of tiles bordering the entire perimeter of the pool?
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Question 899389: Sarah has two 5 foot square planters 4 feet high that she wants to plant with annual flowers. How much soil does she need?
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Question 899307: Bob the builder has 30 square feet of sheet metal and 12 square feet of wood on hand. He uses both the metal and wood when he makes the doghouses and bird houses. A dog house requires 6 sq. ft of metal while a bird house requires only 3 sq. feet of metal. A dog house requires 3 sq. ft. of wood while a bird house will use 1 sq. ft. of wood. Let x = number of dog houses he can make. Let y = the number of bird houses he can makes. Write inequalities that describe the possible combinations of dog houses and bird houses hat Bob can make with the material on hand. THEN graph the inequalities, find the feasible region and determine the corner points vertices ____.
Would possible answers be: 6x+y greater than 30; x+12y greater than 30 for sheet metal? 10x+y greater than 30 and x+30Y greater than 30 for wood?
Would vertices be (2x,y)? and then you just graph x points twice that of y on a graph?
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Question 899685: The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 15 cm long. One leg is 9 cm long. How long is the other leg.
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Question 899877: The perimeter of a square if the length is 2,6cm
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Question 899990: An apple orchard contains 96 trees. The number of trees in each row is 4 less than twice the number of rows. Find the number of rows and the number of trees per row
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Question 900050: a bathroom measures 250cm by 175cm.calculate the side of the largest square tile that can be used without cutting

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Question 900153: The area of a rectangular region is 104 square feet. If the length of the rectangle is increased by 4 feet and the width by 2 feet, then the area is increased by 66 square feet. Find the length and width of the original rectangular region.
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Question 900206: If the area of a square is 29 square inches, estimate the length of each side of the square to the nearest whole number
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Question 900228: the area of a square is 169 cm squared. what is the side length of the square? include units in your answer.
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Question 900456: A pole 6 feet high has a shadow of 5 feet. At the same time a tree casts a shadow of 30 feet. How tall is the tree?
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Question 900467: If the base of a triangle is (4x+2) and the height is (x-6) , find the area

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Question 900672: Suppose the base and height of a triangle sum to 12, and the area of the triangle is 16 square cm. What are the dimensions (base and height) of the triangle?
Please break the problem down and show me how you solved it,
Thank you!

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