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What is the value of x in the following equation. -x ^3/2 = -27

Apool measures 12.3 feet by 16.6 feet. if the longer wall of the pool has a diagonal of 17.8 feet, what is the volume of the pool? (round to nearest tenth)

Use the formulas a = x 2 – y 2, b = 2xy, c = x 2 + y 2 to answer this question. one leg of a right triangle has length 11 and all sides are whole numbers. find the lengths of the other two sides. the other leg = a0 and the hypotenuse = a1