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Question 928106: a student stands 30 feet away from the obelisk with a degree of 75, what is the height of the obelisk

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Question 928137: if the length of a rectangular kitchen is half the square of its width and its perimeter is 48m write two equations in terms of the length and width and hence find the dimensions of the kitchen
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Question 928400: A living room of a house is 20.5 ft wide and 32.5 ft long. What is the approximate area of the room in square meters?
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Question 927974: Show that the area of the Norman window is a maximum when both r and x are equal to P(pie+4)
*assume that the perimeter of the window is P
So I figured that the r is the radius and the x is the length
So I made this equation x+r = P(pie+4)

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Question 928387: The length of a regulation tennis court is 6 feet greater than twice it's width. The perimeter of the court is 228 feet. Find the length and width of the court.
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Question 927882: A square having an area of 48 m2 is inscribed in a circle which is inscribed in a regular hexagon. Compute the a. area of the circle, b. area of the regular hexagon and c. perimeter of the regular hexagon.
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Question 928512: A rectangular storage area is 8.0 m longer than it is wide. If the area is 28 m squared, what are its dimensions?
I have such trouble with word problems!
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Question 928576: The perimeter of a rectangle is 48 m. The length is 3 m less than twice the width. Find the length and the width.
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Question 928510: Each side of a square is 4 m long. When each side is increased by x m the area is multiplied by 4. Find the value of x
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Question 928712: The area and length of a rectangle are 30 square feet and 6 feet restrictively. What is the width of the rectangle

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Question 928797: The length of a rectangle is 4ft longer than twice the width. If the perimeter is 86ft, find the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 928017: hotel is in the shape of a cylinder, with a circular foundation. The circumference of the foundation is 4 times the radius, increased by 145.92 ft. Find the radius of the circular foundation. Use 3.14 as an approximation for π.
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Question 928856: A string 312 inches long can be wrapped around a wooden square 13 times.
What is the area of the square in square inches
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Question 927979: I want to build a garden that is 5 and 3 fifths yards wide and the total square yards is 12 and 2 fifths. How long will it be?
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Question 929172: The width and length of a rectangle are consecutive integers. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 722 inches,
find the width and length of the rectangle.

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Question 929678: How long would a hexagon side be if the area was 16
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Question 929723: The height if a parallelogram is 5 times its base. If the area of the parallelogram is 1805 square millimeters, find the length if its base and height. Any help would be much appreciated!!
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Question 929740: What is the solution to 38.4 = 2x?
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Question 929752: Michael draws square wxyz with three of the points at the coordinates w(-3, -1), x(-3, -7), and z(-9, -1). What is the perimeter of the square?
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Question 929747: What expression is equivalent to 4(x+3y)+y?
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Question 929798: Frances left a 19% tip on a meal. The total cost including the top was 77.35. What was the cost of the meal without the tip?
I got 62.66.
Seems like the right answer,but it was marked wrong. Just double checking.
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Question 929811: shape a on the centimeter grid is enlarged by a scale factor 3
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Question 929900: a circle of radius 6 units has half of its area removed by cutting off a border of uniform width find the width of the border
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Question 929995: g(n)=3n+5
h(n)=n^3+2n
find (g of h)(n)
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Question 930012: a lot is 60 meters by 36 meters. a house 27 meters by 8 meters is built on the lot. how much area is left over?
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Question 930158: The length and width of a rectangle are in a 4:7 ratio. The perimeter of the rectangle is 352. What are the length and width?
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Question 930169: I need help with this question, please. The base of a triangle exceeds the height by 9 inches. If the area is 266 square inches, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 930362: solve using the elimination method 3x+6y=3 2x+9y=-8
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Question 930367: solve algebraically 4x^2+y^2=4 -2x+y=2
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Question 930382: a circular wading pool has a diameter of 8 ft. a circular swimming pool has a radius of 18 t. how many times bigger is the circumference of the swimming pool that of the wading pool
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Question 930365: solve algebraically for each system given below x^2+y^2=100 x+y=2
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Question 930364: for each system given below, solve algebraically. x^2+y^2=100 x+y=2
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Question 930446: David is making a model of a rectangular solid from a piece of wire 52 inches long. The length is to be twice the width, and the height is to be 1 more inch than the width. What are the dimensions of the solid?
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Question 930286: A school gym has a perimeter of 324 feet and an area of 6,480 square feet. What are the dimensions of the gym?
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Question 930559: A cone sits on top of a cylinder. Bhioth have a radius of 3 cm. The heights of the cylinder and cone are 8&4 cm respectively. determine the volume of the combined solid
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Question 930642: the area of rectangle is 38.7 square feet If its width is a 4.5 feet find its length

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Question 930743: a rectangular backboard measures 3 ft 3 in. by 5 ft 4 in. what is the perimeter of the backboard? ( hint. convert 3 ft 3 in. to 39 in and 5 ft 4 in. to 64 in )
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Question 930841: The area of aright triangle is 84 square ft.; its hypotenuse is 25ft. Find the length of its two sides.

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Question 930841: The area of aright triangle is 84 square ft.; its hypotenuse is 25ft. Find the length of its two sides.

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Question 930945: Hey guys i was wondering if someone could help me out with this word problem, thank you.
An amphitheater has 22 seats in the first row and 40 rows in all. Each successive row has one additional seat. How many seats are in the amphitheater?
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Question 930997: A rectangular patio is 9 ft by 6 ft. When the length and width are increased by the same amount, the area becomes 88 sq ft. Ginger is using the zero product property to solve the equation (6 + x)(9 + x) = 88. What do her solutions represent?

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Question 931164: A flat board leans against a wall. The upper edge is 6 feet above the floor and the lower edge is 2 feet out from the wall. What is the slope of the board?
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Question 931292: The diagonal of a square has the length of 12radical2 feet. Find the length of the sides of the square. Length of the side is ? feet....
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Question 931333: A girl is doing an experiment where she is throwing a die. What is the probability that she will get :
a) a 6?
b) a 0?
c) an even number?
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