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A printed poster is to have a total area of 735 square inches with top and bottom margins of 4 inches and side margins of 6 inches. What should be the dimensions of the poster so that the printed area be as large as possible? To solve this problem let x denote the width of the poster and let y denote the length. We need to maximize the following function of x and y: for this I got (x-12)(y-8) the next step is this. We can reexpress this as the following function of x alone: F(x)=?

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