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MHB What is the Height of the Washington Monument from a Distance of 1000 Feet?
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MHB How do trigonometric functions and their inverses relate to each other?
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MHB Kite Distance Above the Ground
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MHB What is the formula for finding angle theta without accounting for height?
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MHB What is the Angle Formed by a Leaning Ladder Against a House?
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MHB Can I also say that cot (0) = positive infinity?
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MHB Calculating Height and Distance of a Mountain at Sea
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MHB Cot (60°) = 1/tan (60°) = 1/sqrt{3}
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MHB How Do Shadows and Sun Angles Relate to Tree Height?
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High School Statistics Help : Hypothesis Testing
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MHB Finding the Leg Lengths of a Right Triangle with an Acute Angle of 22°
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MHB How Tall are Buildings A and B Using Trigonometry?
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MHB Stoichiometry Question: Seeking Correct Answer | Website Name
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MHB Find All Possible Values of $AD$ in Cyclic Quadrilateral
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MHB What is the sum of these trigonometric fractions?
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MHB What is the solution to this trigonometric challenge?
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High School Solutions to systems of equations
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MHB How many oranges were there in the morning?
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MHB What Is a Common Denominator for These Fractions?
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Undergrad Real life traveling salesman problem
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MHB Can You Prove 2+2√(28n²+1) is a Square Number?
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MHB Natural Solutions for Positive Variables?
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MHB For which n is the term an integer & Calculate the equivalence
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MHB Finding minimum value of function with two variable
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High School Four Digit Numbers from 2x2 Digits - Simple Math Puzzle
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Undergrad Are there any two pairs of integers with the same result in a specific function?
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MHB How to find functions & inputs whose output is a specific number
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High School Find triangles with areas that are integers
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MHB Can someone help me in the right direction with this proof
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MHB Inequality involving a, b, c and d
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MHB Integral of trigonometric function
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Graduate Sine Dipole formation using two hydrophones
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MHB The Union of Two Open Sets is Open
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MHB Integral Challenge: Evaluating $\int_0^\infty \frac{x^2+2}{x^6+1} \, dx$
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MHB IHave no idea how to solve any os these.
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Undergrad What is the Function for the Value of a Convergent Series Sum?
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MHB What is the ratio of two integrals involving sine with exponents of sqrt(2)?
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High School Confusion about the domain of this logarithmic function
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Undergrad Why integrals took 2000 years to come up in a rigorous manner?
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High School Vector Notation: Italic Boldface Symbolization
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High School Question about the Lorentz factor
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Undergrad How did mathematicians discover the expressions of hyperbolic functions?
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High School Is the Euclidean postulate a theorem?
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MHB -gre.al.9 absolute value domain
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MHB I have no answers for these questions... me
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MHB Solve System of 4 Equalities: x+y+z+w=22, xyzw=648
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MHB How can you prove abc <= 1/8 knowing 1/a + 1/b + 1/c >= 6?
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High School Do column 'vectors' need a basis?
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MHB Can You Solve the Triangle Sides Challenge?
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MHB Find the square of the distance
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MHB Finding $f(84)$ with the Defined Function $f$
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MHB Solve for $d-b$: $a^5=b^4,\,c^3=d^2,\,c-a=19$
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MHB How should you draw this sketch?
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Undergrad Questions about this video on Taylor series
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MHB Largest Even Integer: Impossible Sum of Two Odd Composites
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MHB Finding $|k|$ of the Polynomial $x^3-kx+25$
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Graduate Jacobi Elliptic Functions and Integrals
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MHB Needed some help with this organizational problem
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MHB What does the following means?
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MHB Expressing First 1000 Positive Integers as Floor Functions
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MHB Draw Line of Best Fit: Canada Exchange Rate US Dollar 1998-2007
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MHB Heptagon Challenge: Proving $\dfrac{1}{2}<\dfrac{S_Q+S_R}{S_P}<2-\sqrt{2}$
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MHB Prove ABC is an equilateral triangle
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MHB What are the possible integers for which a given expression is an integer?
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Undergrad Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Dot Product Question
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MHB How to Solve an Equation with Square Roots?
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High School Computing a tricky complex math problem - where did I go wrong?
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MHB Solving Integer Equations with $a$ and $b$
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High School Possible factor(s) of 2^(12n+9)+1
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Undergrad Finding multinomial coefficients by evaluation?
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Undergrad Product of distances from foci to any tangent of an ellipse
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MHB Dimension of the cut-out squares that result in largest possible side area
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MHB Derivatives with Quadratic Functions.
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MHB Is 7 an irrational number in the set of integers?
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MHB Find the area of the red region
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MHB Maximizing $y=|4x^3+ax^2+bx+c|$ in $[-1,1]$
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MHB Find (x₁²+1)(x₂²+1)(x₃²+1)(x₄²+1)
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Undergrad How can I solve the equation x-esin(x)=4?
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MHB Parallelogram ABCD: Finding AC from PB & PD
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MHB Max Value of $b$ for Real Roots of $f(x)$ and $g(x)$
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MHB Equation of the form x+a=√(bx+c)
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Undergrad Does this make a cubic out of a quadratic system?
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MHB Polynomial Challenge: Show Real Roots >1 Exist
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MHB Solving System of Equalities: x^2-y\sqrt xy & y^2-x\sqrt xy =3
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MHB Geometry Challenge: Prove $\angle ADE=\angle BDC$ in Convex Quadrilateral $ADBE$
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MHB Topic of presentation: Elementary Geometry vs Fibonacci & its sequences
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High School My argument why Hilbert's Hotel is not a veridical Paradox
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MHB Lengths of the sides of quadrilateral
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MHB Find the area of the shaded region
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High School Why Do We Draw Dimensionless Unit Vectors in Diagrams?
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Undergrad Partial Surface Area of a Tube
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MHB Prove $\frac{1}{3}\le \frac{u}{v} \le \frac{1}{2}$ with Triangle Sides
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MHB Solve System of Inequalities: 2x+3y-4, 3x-4y+5
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MHB Solve System of Equalities: x^2+xy+y^2, x^2+xz+z^2, y^2+yz+z^2
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MHB Is $f(x) = xf(1)$ the only solution to the given functional equation?
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MHB System of Equations: Find Triples $(x,y,z)$
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High School Why do shapes with the same area have different perimeters?
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Undergrad Who would win a perfect game of chess?
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