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Question 924547: You need to build a ramp to a door that is 6ft above ground. If your ramp will extend the entire length of a 25 ft long sidewalk, how long does the ramp need to be?
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Question 924475: A rectangular garden has an area of 6x^2 + 11x - 10
Find two expressions that can represent the length and width of the garden. If x = 10 feet, what is the actual dimension of the length and width.
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Question 924425: Two cardboard pieces in the form of equilateral triangles having a side of 3cm each are symmetrically glued to form a regular star.the area of the star.
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Question 924895: a diagonal path is being constructed between the corners of a school playground which is 48 m by 36 m. Determine the length of the pathway.
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Question 924872: The height of a triangle is 11 inches less than its base. The area of the triangle is 138 square inches. Find the dimensions of the triangle
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Question 924974: the perimeter of a square is 30% of the perimeter of a larger square if the perimeter of the smaller square is 4.8 inches what is the side length of the largest square?
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Question 925570: Manuel's quiz scores in history are 76, 81, and 77. What score must he get on his fourth quiz to have an average of at least 80?
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Question 925573: 5x-4x^2/x^2-10, for x=-3
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Question 925565: The height of a triangle is 6 meters longer than twice its base. Find the base and height if the area of the triangle is 8 square meters. Round to the nearest hundredth of a meter.
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Question 925667: A parabola has its focus at (7, -4) and directrix Y = 2. Find the equation
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Question 925715: A 380-cubic-centimeter sample of titanium has a mass of 1710 grams. Find the weight of a titanium sample that has a volume of 532 cubic centimeters. Write and then solve a proportion to find the answer.
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Question 925963: Lalasa and Yasmin are designing a triangular banner to hang in the school gymnasium. They first draw the design on paper. The triangle has a base of 5 inches and a height of 7 inches. If 1 inch on the drawing is equivalent to 1.5 feet on the actual banner, what will the area of the actual banner be?
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Question 925136: What is the area of a trapezoid in simplest radical form with a height of 5ft and a base of 30ft and another base of 15ft
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Question 926243: The length of a rectangular photo is 2 inches greater than the width. the perimeter is 20 inches. find the length and width. (WRITE A SYSTEM OF 2 EQUATIONS IN TO 2 UNKNOWNS FOR EACH PROBLEM AND SOLVE THEM).
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Question 926321: a box has a volume of 360 cubic centimeters. its height is 8 centimeters, and its 8 centimeter, and its width is 4 centimeters less than its length. find the length of the box.
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Question 926398: The width of a rectangle is 7 meters less than the length. The perimeter is 66 meters. Find the length and the width.
Thanks so much.
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Question 926397: Please help! I have been stuck on it for a while. Thank you so much.
One side of triangle is one-fourth the longest side. The third side is 7 feet less than the longest side. The perimeter is 137. Find all three sides.

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Question 926425: Five metal spheres with radius of 2cm are melted and this melted solution is poured into a cube with base dimensions of 3cmx2cm. Find the height of the rectangular solid filled with solution
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Question 926466: How many rectangles have an area of 12

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Question 926611: A farmer wants to fence in an area next to her barn. She has 500 feet of fencing. What is the maximum area, length, and width?
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Question 926826: Two opposite sides of a square with length x are increased by 3 units each and the other two opposite sides are decreased by 3 units each. If the area of the resulting rectangle is 27 units, what would be the width of the rectangle?
Hint: area of rectangle = length � width
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Question 926942: Can you help me with this problem, i have tried a million times and still dont get it.......If mr.Goat was attached to a pentagonal shed that side lengths are all 10ft long and his rope is 25 ft long. What is the area of the grass that he can graze

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Question 926965: The shortest side of a right triangle measures 8cm. The lengths of the two other sides are consecutive odd integers. Find the lengths of the two other sides
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Question 927131: The area of an equilateral triangle is 125 sq. cm. Find its altitude?
i need help coz i dont know how to answer it. my teacher didnt discuss this part :(

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Question 927139: The area of a triangle whose height is 1 more than 6 times its base is 13 square feet. If the base of the triangle is x feet, which equation models this situation?
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Question 927149: The perimeter of a rectangle laptop is 160 inches. The height of the laptop is 2 feet. What is the base?
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Question 927157: I need to find the scale factor for a model i am building. The models hieght is 192 meters.
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Question 927126: In an isosceles trapezoid, the altitude drawn from an endpoint of the shorter base to the longer base divides the longer base of 5cm and 10cm long. What are the lengths of the bases of the trapezoid?
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Question 927166: The rectangle is 22ft long and 17ft wide. If the gardener wants to build a fence around the garden, how many feet of fence are required?
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Question 927017: I need to know how many square feet this would be k: 28 wide x 64 long x 10 feet high = ?
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Question 927458: The width of rectangular field is half its length. if its area is 512 sq.m find its perimeter.
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Question 927412: if a pool is 15 by 48 inches how many 12 by 12 tiles would be needed
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Question 927394: A rectangle is 5 cm longer than its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 66 cm find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 927507: The measure of one acute angle in a right triangle is 1.25 Times the measure of the other acute angle. What is the measure of the larger acute angle?

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Question 927476: the sides of a square are increased by a scale factor of 7. the perimeter of the smaller square is 16 ft. what is the perimeter of the larger square?
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Question 927586: Each side of an equilateral triangle is 4 m shorter than twice the length of each side of a square. Their perimeters are the same. How long is each side of the triangle ?
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Question 927639: a circular park of radius 12m has a road 4m wide running round it. find the cost of metalling the road at the rate of Rs.16 per sq.meter.
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Question 927695: Solve the formula for the given variable.
V = 1/3 πr^2h; h
h=?
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Question 927773: I am looking at timber cladding the gable end of our house, the cladding comes in 5m lengths & is 100mm in height.
My question is:-
How many 5m lengths will I need to order to fill the triangle that is my gable end measuring 7.8m wide at the base & 3.2m high ??
Regards
Steve
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Question 927684: during a preliminary survey of a future bridge site, an engineer measures the distance across a river by laying a base line 30.0 meters in length along the shore line. one end of the base line, end A, is directly across from a tree on the opposite shore line. using a sighting instrument, the engineer finds that align from the tree to the other end of the base line, end B, would form an angle of 76 degrees with the base line. what is the distance across the river?
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Question 927850: A square is enlarged by increasing the length of its sides by 10%. If the length of its sides was originally 6 cm, calculate the area of the enlarged square.
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Question 928004: Sprinkler: A sprinkler will water a grassy area in the shape of [x^2 + (y^2/9)=1]. Draw the watered area, assuming the sprinkler is at the orgin.(By the way, do you know what type of sprinkler this actually is?)

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