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Square ABCD has sides of length 4, and M is the midpoint of CD . A circle with radius 2 and center intersects a circle with
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What is the cosine of the angle between two adjacent faces of a regular tetrahedron? (We define the angle between two
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Two altitudes of a triangle have lengths 12 and 14. What is the longest possible length of the third altitude, if it is a
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Let R denote the circular region bounded by x^2+y^2 = 36. The lines x=4 and y=3 partition R into four regions R1, R2 ,R3 , and
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Equilateral triangle ABC and a circle with center O are constructed such that BC is a chord of the circle and point A is the
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Let ABCD be a square, and let M and N be the midpoints of BC and CD respectively. Find sin<MAN.
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Let G denote the centroid of triangle ABC. If triangle ABG is equilateral with side length 2, then determine the perimeter of
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Let ABC have side lengths AB=13, AC=14, and BC=15. There are two circles located inside <BAC which are tangent to rays AB, AC ,
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Alicia has a flat platter shaped like a square with a semicircle of diameter 10 inches on each edge. What is the number of
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Two circles of different sizes are tangent at T. A is on the smaller circle, whereas B is on the larger one. Also, segment CD is
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Let PQ, RS , and TU be parallel chords of a circle. The distance between chords PQ and RS is 4, and the distance between chords
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Two circles of radius 1 are externally tangent at Q . Let PQ and QR be diameters of the two circles. From P a tangent is drawn
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Isosceles triangle ABC has sides of length AB=AC=25 and BC=40 . Find the area of a semicircle inscribed in triangle ABC with
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The vertices of a triangle are the points of intersection of the line y=-x-1, x=2 and y = 1/5x + 13/5. Find an equation of the
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Please help, I know cos 72 degrees = (sqrt 5 - 1)/4.
I need to know what cos 36 degrees is. How to do so?
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The lines y=5/12x and y=4/3 are drawn in the coordinate plane. Find the slope of the line that bisects these lines.
How? Do we
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A circle is tangent to the y-axis at the point (0,2) and passes through the point (8,0). Find the radius of the circle.
I tried
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A line with slope 6 bisects the area of a unit square with vertices (1,0), (0,0) , (1,1), and (0,1). What is the y-intercept of
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Find the largest real number x for which there exists a real number y such that x^2+y^2 = 2x+2y .
I think it is a circle, but how
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I have a triangle ABC. The slope of AB is -1/ab, the slope of AC is -1/ac, and the slope of BC is -1/ac. My question is, I have
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Let P = (5,1), and let Q be the reflection of P over the line y = 1/2x + 2. Find the coordinates of Q.
I don't understand how to
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Let P = (5,1), and let Q be the reflection of P over the line y = 1/2x + 2. Find the coordinates of Q.
I don't understand how to
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The preimage of square ABCD has its center at (8,-8) and has an area of 4 square units. The top side of the square is
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Find the maximum value of y/x over all real numbers x and y that satisfy (x-3)^2+(y-3)^2 = 6.
It is a circle, but how do we even
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Find the maximum value of y/x over all real numbers x and y that satisfy (x-3)^2+(y-3)^2 = 6.
It is a circle, but how do we even
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Find the maximum value of y/x over all real numbers x and y that satisfy (x-3)^2+(y-3)^2 = 6.
It is a circle, but how do we even
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For some positive real number r , the line x+y=r is tangent to the circle x^2+y^2 = r. Find r.
How do we do this? Set equal
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A line with slope 3 is 2 units away from the origin. Find the area of the triangle formed by this line and the coordinate axes.
H
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What is the area, in square units, of a triangle whose vertices are at (4,-1), (10,3) and (4,5) ?
How to do this?
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A laser is shot from vertex A of square ABCD of side length 1, towards point P on BC so that BP = 3/4. The laser reflects off
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A laser is shot from vertex A of square ABCD of side length 1, towards point P on BC so that BP = 3/4. The laser reflects off
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When a square of area 4 is dilated by a scale factor of k, we obtain a square of area 9. Find the sum of all possible values of
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When a square of area 4 is dilated by a scale factor of k, we obtain a square of area 9. Find the sum of all possible values of
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A circle with radius 3 is inscribed in a isosceles trapezoid with legs of 10. Find the length of the smaller base.
When I draw a
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A sphere with radius 3 is inscribed in a conical frustum of slant height 10. (The sphere is tangent to both bases and the side
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A bowling ball is a solid ball with a spherical surface and diameter 30 cm. To custom fit a bowling ball for each bowler, three
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PLEASE HELP I REALLY NEED HELP.
Each of the three circles in the figure below is externally tangent to the other two, and each
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Let AB be the diameter of a circle, and let point P be a point on AB. Let CD be a chord parallel to AB. Prove that PA^2 + PB^2 =
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Hi all,
I belong to a education group, and we practice Mock Trial. Where can I find a video of a real trial going on so I can
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hi guys ive be struggling on this problem for a couple of days, so please help if you can
Problem:Two altitudes of a triangle
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hi guys ive be struggling on this problem for a couple of days, so please help if you can
Problem:Two altitudes of a triangle
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Two sides of an obtuse triangle are 16 and 21. How many possible lengths are there for the third side, if it is a positive
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Two sides of a triangle are 11 and 17. How many possible lengths are there for the third side, if it is a positive integer?
I
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Points D, E, and F are the midpoints of sides BC, CA, and AB of ABC, respectively, and CZ is an altitude of the triangle. If
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Hi I do not how to simplify the problem
x^2 =40+12sqrt2 what would be x? BTW if you sqrt both sides it would be double square
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A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle and another regular hexagon is circumscribed about the same circle. What is the ratio
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The distance between two opposite vertices of the dodecagon is 2. Find the area of the dodecagon.
first, what is the area of a
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In a chess variant, a "lord" can move one space at a time, either upward, or to the right, or diagonally upward and to the
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An equilateral triangle of side 14 centimeters is revolved about an altitude to form a cone. What is the number of cubic
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Please help guys if you can, this is a really hard problem I am trying to solve
Four circles of unit radius are drawn with
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The diagonals of a trapezoid are perpendicular and have lengths 8 and 10. Find the length of the median of the trapezoid.
I tried
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The diagonals of a trapezoid are perpendicular and have lengths 8 and 10. Find the length of the median of the trapezoid.
I don't
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