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The markup on a country maple bedroom set |
2013-09-26 |
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From steven:
Bargain Furniture sells a five-piece country maple bedroom set for $1299. The cost of this set is $700. What are the markup on the bedroom set?
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Draping a room with fabric |
2011-05-19 |
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From Maria:
I need to drape an entire room with fabric. The width of the fabric is 120 inches.
How many yards of fabric do I need if the room is 4000 sq ft. (50 x 80 ft) and the ceiling is 12 ft. high.
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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How many gallons of water will it take to fill a classroom? |
2010-12-01 |
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From deena:
How many gallons of water will it take to fill a classroom that is 26 feet long by 19 feet wide and 9 feet high? How many tons of water will that be?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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The center of a rectangular room |
2010-02-16 |
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From Diana:
Consider a rectangular room, 15 feet wide, 30 feet long and 12 feet high. What is the exact distance from any of the 8 corners of the room and its geometric center? Can you write a generic formula for such a distance? And if we keep the same proportions on all dimensions, can you write an expression for the same distance as a function of the floor perimeter?
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A semi circular room |
2009-02-11 |
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From Taylor:
being 450pi (the area of a semi circle)
how much money would it cost to lay carpet at $2.57 per foot???
if the area of a semi circular room is 450 pi ft
then what is the volume being that the diameter is 60 feet
and the ceiling is 16 feet tall
Answered by Robert Dawson and Penny Nom. |
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A rectangular room |
2008-06-30 |
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From Peter:
A rectangular room has a perimeter of 42 feet and an area of 108 square feet. What is the length, in feet, of the shorter side?
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An octagonal room |
2006-10-18 |
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From Rick:
I am a cabinetmaker, and I have a client who has an octagonal room which he would like to be used as a walk-in closet. Each side of the octagon is 60" in length. Each wall section is to have a 24" deep cabinet installed on it. I am trying to figure out the width of each cabinet allowing for a 3" space between cabinets at the front corner.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Room and board fees |
2003-11-29 |
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From Jennifer:
A certain university wishes to determine room and board fees for the next academic year. For the current year, the fee is $3600 per student and 1800 students are living in the residence halls. Past data suggests that for every $300 increase in the semester fee, 200 fewer students will choose to live in the dorms. There are also costs to the university associated with the residence halls. The fixed costs total $2,000,000 per semester. the variable costs are currently $1000 per student but will fall $100 per student for each decrease of 100 students. Your task is to help the university determine the optimal fee. Assume linear relationships between the number of students and the fee and between the number of students and the cost per student
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Grooming the king's horses |
2003-09-04 |
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From Janelle:
the stable boy had 90% of the kings horses groomed.the next day the king acquired 25% more horses. Now there was 105 horses not prepared for the kings men. How many horses did the king originally have?
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Computer use in mathematics classrooms. |
1999-06-23 |
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From Rosemary Greer:
Can you give me any information, either articles or the names of books, concerning the use of computers in the math classroom?
Answered by Lillian Perivolaris. |
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