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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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Question 97298: I am a 2-dimensional figure. I have two pairs of parallel sides. None of my angles is a right angle. All of my sides are the same length. What ams I?
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Question 97311: If a bridge that is one mile long is attached to the ground on either side, and you cut it in the middle and add one foot, what is the height of how far the bridge bows up in the middle?
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Question 97568: B is the midpoint of line AC . Line AB = 8v and Line Ac= 3v+42 .what is BC?
the only thing that i have is that line BC should be equal to line AB.
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Question 97667: One leg of a right triangle is 2 inches smaller than the hypotenuse. The other leg is 5 inches long. What are the lengths of the unknown leg and hypotenuse?
Not sure if I set it up right.
(x+2)^2 + 5^2 = x^2

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Question 97699: 7R/12=-14
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Question 97720: 2 times a number, increased by 28 is less than or eaqual to 6 times that number.
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Question 97721: The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 feet less than it's width. If the perimeter of the playing field is 230 feet, find the length and width of the field.
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Question 98263: A girl stands 400 ft. from a tree. With her eye at ground level she sights along a yard stick and finds the top of the yard stick coincides with the top of the tree when the bottom of the yard stick is 4 feet from her eye. Find the height of the tree.
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Question 98505: A circular sheet of paper of radius 6 cm is cut into three equal sectors, and each sector is formed into a cone with no overlap. What is the height in centimeters of each cone?
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Question 98631: How to solve the Geometry problem below?
The measure of 1 angle of a linear pair is 3 times the measure of the other angle. Find the measure of the 2 angles.

I know the answer is 45 degrees, 135 degrees
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Question 98653: Find the dimensions of a rectangle whose area is 180cm^2 and whose perimeter is 54 cm.
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Question 98685: A Gardener has 60 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden and the two foot wide border surrounding it.
If The length of the garden is twice its width, what are its dimensions?
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Question 98772: FIND ALL WHOLE NUMBER PAIRS OF LENGTH AND WIDTH VALUES THAT GIVE AN AREA OF 24 SQUARE METERS?
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Question 98824: The length of a a rectangle is twice as long as the width. The perimeter of the rectangle is 72 in. What are the length and width of this rectangle.
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Question 99147: Geometry. The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 ft less than twice its width.If the perimeter of the playing field is 230 ft, find the length and width of the field?
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Question 99221: suppose you are sewing a braid border on the edges of a quilt. the quilt is 20in. longer than it is wide. you need 292in. of braid to cover the edges of the quilt. what are the dimensions of the quilt.

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Question 99453: Find the measure of an angle whose supplement measures five times its measure. I am at a loss for how to set up the equation.
I think x should = the measure
the supplement should be 180-x
and the complement is 90-x.
any help is appreciated.
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Question 99471: A cylinder with the height of 15 has a total surface solution area that is twice the area of a circle whose radius is 6 more than the radius of the cylinder. What is the radius of the cylinder? May you help me with this> I am very lost.
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Question 99529: I think I have this problem, but would like someone to make sure.
the volume of a rectangular box is 105 cubic inches. if the top is 6 inches by 3.5 inches, what is the height? I must show algebraic steps to get the answer.
I have 6 x 3.5 = 21 So the top is 21 inches
105 - 21 = 84
84 (divided by) 3 = 28
so the height is 28 inches.

Does that look right?????
Thanks, Judi
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Question 99612: The length of one of the equal legs of an isosceles triangle is 8cm less than 4 times the lenghth of the base. If the perimeter is 29cm, find the lenghth of the equal legs.
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Question 99614: The length of a rectangular playing field is 5 feet less than twice its width. If the perimeter of the playing field is 230 feet, find the length and width of the field.
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Question 99681: What is the legnth of the base (b) of any triangle that has an area "A" and a height "h" ? (Note: A = 1/2 bh)

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Question 99702: The area of a rectangle is 54 cm2. If the length of the rectangle is 3 more than its width, find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 99803: A triangle has an area of 72in squared. It has a height of 9 inches, what is the base?
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Question 99849: The measure of the supplement of an angle is 20 degrees more than three times the measure of the original angle. Find the measures of the angles.
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Question 99959: A square piece of cardboard is formed into an open box (not top) by removing a 1.5 inch square from each corner and folding up the sides. If the volume of the box is 37.5 cubic inches, what was the size of the cardboard?
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Question 100056: a rectangular box is to be used to store materials. The inside of the box is 12.0 in. long, 9.50 in. wide, and 8.75 in. deep. What is the area of sheet lead that must be used to line the inside of the box?
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Question 100616: You are going to make a box out of cardboard. The box needs to measure 10 cm. by 5 cm. by 5 cm. 10% of the final product will be wasted in the cutting process. How much cardboard do you need???

Thanks!!
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Question 100653: How long must a guywire be to run from the top of an 18-ft pole to a point on level ground 16 ft away from the base of the pole?
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Question 100788: Find the number of degrees in each angle of a traingle if the number of degrees in the first angle is two less than four times the number of degrees in the second angle and the number of degrees in the third angle is 5 less than 1/2 the number of degrees in the second.
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Question 100964: The hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is 3 meters longer than twice the length of one of the legs. The measure of the other leg is 12 meters. Find the measure of the hypotenuse of the triangle.
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Question 100985: the riches are ording topsoil for teir new lawn. The topsoil will be spread evenly over the yard before the grass is planted. the yard is 81 feet wide and 111 feet long. the topsoil will be spread 2 inches deep. how many cubic yards of topsoil are needed.

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Question 101108: the length of a rectangle is 5m less than twice its width. If its width is increased by 5m and its length by 2m, the new area would be 81 sq m more than the original. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 101410: If M<1 is four times its supplement, find M<1 and its supplement.
I've tried to set the equation up like this:
m<1=4x-180 but i really don't know what i am doing! thank you soo much
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Question 101564: Solve.
The length of a rectangular room is 4 feet longer than twice the width. If the room's perimeter is 140 feet, what are the room's dimensions?

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Question 97657: I am very confused on this problem. Could you please help me?
Geometry. Refer to the triangle in the figure. Find an expression that represtns its perimeter. (I am not sure how to show the triangle) The sides are 3/4x 1/x^2 5/x^2 Hopefully you can help me because I am very confused on this problem. Thank you for your help.
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Question 101752: A rectangle has a diagonal of 15 cm. The width of the rectangle is 3 cm less than its lenght. Find the area of the rectangle.
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Question 101786: The width and length of a rectangle are consecutive odd intergers. If the width is w, fird the perimeter, in simplest form, in terms of w.
for some reason I don't think that there is an answer to this problem. Am i correct or is there an answer?
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Question 101764: The Volume of spheres are proportional to the cubes of their radii. Two spheres of the same material weigh 3.6 kg and 2.7 kg and the radius of the smaller one is 2 cm. If the two were melted down and formed into a single sphere,what would be the radius..?
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