Square Problems

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  • Suppose 4
    normal_d Suppose that 14% of all steel shafts produced by a certain process are nonconforming but can be reworked (rather than having to be scrapped). Consider a random sample of 200 shafts, and let X denote the number among these that are nonconforming and can be
  • Alexandra
    rectangular quilt Alexandra made a rectangular quilt the measured 3 1/4. 2 3/4 feet in width. What is the area of the quilt in square feet? Write an equation to solve.
  • Frame image
    picture_frame Peter wants to put a picture in a frame. The picture is 7 3/5 cm wide. To fit in the picture frame cannot be more than 7 3/10 cm wide. How much should the image be trimmed?
  • Parallogram
    tiles2 Parallogram base is 24 cm and high 10 cm. How many such tile are required to cover a floor of area 1080m2?
  • Comparing exponents
    powers A) 8 (6²)(8²) b) 16 (6²)(8²) c) (6¹+²) (8²)
  • A trapezoid 3
    trapezium A trapezoid ABCD has the bases length of a = 120 mm, c = 86 mm and the area A = 2,575 mm2. Find the height of the trapezoid.
  • Perimeter to area 2
    square_rot Find the area of a square whose perimeter is 100 cm with solve.
  • If x=4
    eq2 If x=4 and y=-3, what is the value of the expression x² + 2xy - 4x + 3y + y²?
  • The area
    rhombus-diagonals The area of a rhombus is 143 m2. If the longer diagonal is 26 m, find the shorter diagonal in inches named d1.
  • Backyard
    land Corey's backyard is rectangular with a length of 23 miles. If the area of the backyard is 12 square miles, what is its width?
  • Cups of paint
    painter I have a board that is 2 meters wide and 3 meters tall. If one cup of paint cover 1,000 square centimeters. How many cups of paints does I need?
  • A rectangular 3
    rectangle A rectangular plot of land has an area of 3/2 square kilometers and a length of ¾ kilometer.  What is the width of the plot of land?
  • The rug
    tiles2 Josie has a rug with the area of 18 square feet. She will put the rug on the floor that is covered in 1/3 square foot tiles. How many tiles will the rug cover?
  • Little 2
    land Little fields farm lies on a rectangular plot of land that measures 2 2/4 miles in length and 2 2/3 miles in width. What is it's area in square miles?
  • Find the 28
    square Find the area of a square with side length 4/5 yard.
  • Mohammed
    garden Mohammed grew a garden last year. His plot of land was 6 3/4 feet by 10 feet. He wants to have twice as much area and his garden this year how much area will the new garden take up?
  • Louis
    koberec Louis wants to carpet the rectangular floor of his basement. The basement has an area of 5,120 square feet. The width of the basement is 4/5 its length. What is the length of Louis's basement?
  • Ameeka
    paper Ameeka is in charge of designing a school pennant for spirit week. She wants the base to be 3 1/2 feet and the height to be 6 1/2 feet. She has 20 square feet of paper available. Does she have enough paper?
  • Fraction unknowns
    fractal Divide of fractions with unknowns: Fraction 1: The quantity x squared plus 6 times x plus 9 over the quantity x minus 1. Fraction 2: the quantity x squared minus 9 over the quantity x squared minus 2 times x plus 1.  Find Fraction 1 over Fraction 2.
  • Square area
    squares Each side of a square is 5 2/3 m. Find the area of the square.

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