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- A lighthouse
A lighthouse overlooks a bay, and it is 77 meters high. From the top, the lighthouse keeper can see a yacht southward at an angle of depression of 32 degrees and another boat eastward at an angle of 25 degrees. What is the distance between the boats? - Lightning strike
In a thunderstorm, the formula M=t/5.3 gives the approximate distance, M, in miles, from a lightning strike if it takes t second to hear the thunder after seeing the lightning. If you are 5.4 miles away from the lightning flash, how long will it take the - The length 18
The length of a rectangle is three times its width. Suppose the perimeter is 96 cm. Calculate the width of the rectangle. - Same distance
What decimal is the same distance from 7.1 and 7.4? - A plumber 3
A plumber can buy plastic pipes in 6-foot and 12-foot lengths. The current job requires eight 4-foot lengths, five 5-foot lengths, and three 7-foot lengths. The plumber wants to figure out how many of each of the two stock lengths should be bought to mini - A random
A random sample of 225 nails in a manufacturing company is gathered. The engineer specified that the specified length of a nail must be 8 cm having a standard deviation of 0.04 cm. It shows from the sample that the average length of the nails is 8.055 cm. - A cube 2
A cube has an edge length of 4 cm. Then its volume is: - Toy Store Beezlebum's Toy Store can't keep its stackable block set in stock! The blocks completely fill a box shaped like a rectangular prism that is 14 inches long, 14 inches wide, and 21 inches tall. The cube-shaped blocks in the set are 3.5 inches along each edg
- A car miles
A car begins heading along a path at 50 mph. A second car begins an hour later, along the same path traveling at 70 mph. For how long will the first car travel when the second car overtakes it? - Paper The drawing paper has dimensions 220mm and 308mm. Pupils should cut it into squares of the same size so that they are as large as possible. Determine the dimensions of the square in cm and the number of squares.
- Write 7 Write an expression representing the distance between −7 and 3 on a number line.
- Balloon
If a ceiling balloon rises at 120 m (about 400 ft) each minute, what is the ceiling of an overcast deck of stratus clouds 1500 m (about 5000 ft) thick if the balloon disappears into the clouds in 5 minutes? Show your solution. - Lengths 6 Lengths of 130 tubes are measured. The arithmetic mean is 17.27 cm, and the standard deviation is 1.2 cm. How many tubes do have a length: a) between 16.5 cm and 18.1 cm b) greater than 17 cm
- Liz makes Liz makes footprints in the snow with her boots that are 3/4 foot long. Liz's feet are only 2/3 foot long. What expression can be used to find out how much longer Liz's boot prints are than her feet?
- Ricardo Ricardo is 1 9/10 metres tall. If Ricardo is 3/10 meters taller than Joan, what is Joan's height in meters?
- Angel 4
Angel bought 11 spools of wire. Each spool has 2.8 meters of wire. How many meters of wire did Angel buy in all? - A right triangle
A right triangle has legs with lengths of 24 cm and 21 cm if the length of the hypotenuse, in cm, can be written in the form of 3 sqrt(d), then what is the value of d? - There 32
There are 20 magazines in a pile. Each magazine is 5 mm thick. How high is the pile in meters? - Mary made
Mary made 6 large curtains, each 3.5 m long, and 2 small ones, each 1.5 m long. The total cost of the cloth is $312. Find the cost of 1 m of cloth. - FRAMES
Joe is making picture frames out of wood. The length of each frame is 10 inches, and the width is 8 inches. Each piece of wood used to make the frames is 8 feet long. How many pieces of wood will he need to make 10 picture frames? Clue: find the perimeter
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