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A mason can lay the bricks in a sidewalk in 12 hours. The mason's apprentice requires 16 hours to do the same job. After working together for 4 hours, the mason leaves for another job and the apprentice continues working. How long will it take the apprentice to complete the job? |
6.33333... hrs |
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If you have a plan distance of 100 feet, what would your surface distance be on a 2:1 slope? |
111.8 ft
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A pond 100 feet in diameter is surrounded by a circular grass walk 2 feet wide. How many square feet of grass are there on the walk ? |
642.88 ft ^ 2
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If you have a rectangular yard that measures 16 feet long by 14 feet wide. It is covered in grass except for in the center,where there is a circular fountain with a diameter of 4 feet. What is the area of the grass portion of your yard? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth. |
(16ft)(14ft)-(3.14)(2ft)^2 = 211.44ft ^23.14 used for pi
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A brick wall 20 feet in length contains 1,060 bricks. At the same rate how many bricks would it take to build a wall 43 feet in length. |
2279 bricks
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A rectangular planting field, 50 yards by 100 yards is surrounded on all sides by a concrete pedestrian walk 6 feet wide. What is the number of square feet in the surface of the walk? |
5544 sq/ft
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You put a flower bed that is 20 by 30ft. you are putting in a uniform border around the outside of the rectangular garden. You have enough to cover 336 sq. feet. How wide should the border be? |
3 ft |
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A landscape architect designed a decorative grass border around a large community garden. The community garden is 20 feet wide and 40 feet long. The area of the grass border is to be 544 square feet and uniform width. How wide should the architect make the border? |
w=4
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A small rectangular playground that is 10 feet by 14 feet is going to have a grass border of uniform width on all sides. If the area of the grass border is 145 square feet, how wide is the border? |
2.5 ft
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A concrete border of uniform width is constructed around a rectangular flower bed that is 12ft by 9 ft. Find the width of the border if the area formed by the flower bed and the border is 154 sq ft. |
1 ft
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A landscaping company placed two orders with a nursery. The first order was for 13 bushes and 4 trees, and totalled $487. The second order was for 6 bushes and 2 trees, and totalled $232. The bills do not list the per-item price. What were the costs of one bush and of one tree? |
Bushes cost $23 each, trees cost $47 each |
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How many cubic inches are there in one gallon? |
231
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Emily is installing artificial grass in her garden. The garden is 15 feet long and 30 feet wide. It took her 4 hours to install the grass. What is the average speed at which she installed the grass?? |
112.5 sq.ft/hr
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A building contractor employs a master mason, a journeyman mason and an apprentice mason.The master mason and the journeyman working together can finish a brick wall in 10 hours. Ittakes the master and apprentice 12 hours to do the same job, while the journeyman and apprenticerequire 15 hours to complete the task.If all three work together, how long does it take to build the wall? |
8 hr
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Bricklayers use the formula N=7LH to estimate the number of bricks N needed to build a wall of height H and length L. What is the height of the wall that is 30 feet long and that requires 2310 bricks to build? |
11=H
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Dennis is building a brick wall that will measure 10 feet by 16 feet. If the bricks he is usingare 3 inches wide and 5 inches long, how many bricks will it take to build the wall? |
1536
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How many square inches in one square foot? |
144
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A landscape architect designed a decorative grass border around a large community garden. The community garden is 20 feet wide and 40 feet long. The area of the grass border is to be 544 square feet and uniform width. How wide should the architect make the border? |
w=4
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What does the 96.3 in the application rate formula represent? |
The conversion of gallons to cubic feet of water, or inches per square foot. |
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The two large squares shown in the figure each contain four identical triangles, and the only difference between the two large squares is that the triangles are arranged differently. Therefore, the white space within each of the two large squares _______________ have equal area. Equating the area of the white space yields the Pythagorean Theorem. |
must |
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Your customer has enough grass seeds to cover 400 square feet. She wants to grow grass on a rectangular area that is 9 feet longer than it is wide. What dimensions should the area have? |
x = 16 ft (width)x+9=25 ft (length
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If the plant root zone is 4 inches deep in a loamy soil, what would the water holding capacity be? |
4 x 0.125 = 0.50 of an inch. |
