A book designer has decided that the pages of a book should have 1 in. margins at the top and bottom and  in. margins on the sides. She further stipulated that each page should have an area of 72 in.2 (see the figure).

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Determine the page dimensions that will result in the maximum printed area on the page, where .

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What will be an ideal response?


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