The top and bottom margins of a poster 66 cm each, and the side margins are 44 cm each. If the area of the printed material on the poster is fixed at 384384 square centimeters, find the dimensions of the poster of smallest area. (list the smallest dimension first).
Width=?
height=?

width: 24 cmheight: 36 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

When margins are involved, the smallest area will be the one that has its dimensions in the same proportion as the margins. If x is the "multiplier", the dimensions of the printed area are ...

  (4x)(6x) = 384 cm^2

  x^2 = 16 cm^2 . . . . . divide by 24

  x = 4 cm

The printed area is 4x by 6x, so is 16 cm by 24 cm. With the margins added, the smallest poster will be ...

  24 cm by 36 cm

Comment on margins

It should be obvious that if both side margins are 4 cm, then the width of the poster is 8 cm more than the printed width. Similarly, the 6 cm top and bottom margins make the height of the poster 12 cm more than the height of the printed area.

Alternate solution

Let w represent the width of the printed area. Then the printed height is 384/w, and the total poster area is ...

  A = (w+8)(384/w +12) = 384 +12w +3072/w +96

Differentiating with respect to w gives ...

  A' = 12 -3072/w^2

Setting this to zero and solving for w gives ...

  w = √(3072/12) = 16 . . . . matches above solution.

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Generic solution

If we let s and t represent the side and top margins, and we use "a" for the printed area, then the above equation becomes the symbolic equation ...

  A = (w +s)(a/w +t)

  A' = t - sa/w^2

For A' = 0, ...

  w = √(sa/t)

and the height is ...

  a/w = a/√(sa/t) = √(ta/s)

Then the ratio of width to height is ...

  w/(a/w) = w^2/a = (sa/t)/a

  width/height = s/t . . . . . . the premise we started with, above

answer:   segregation violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

details/explanation:

brown v. board of education of topeka, decided by the us supreme court in 1954, ruled that all americans are entitled to the same civil liberties and protections in regard to access to education. until that decision, it was legal to segregate schools according to race, so that black students could not attend the same schools as white students.   an older supreme court decision, plessy v. ferguson (1896), had said that separate, segregated public facilities were acceptable as long as the facilities offered were equal in quality.   in the case of brown v. board of education, that standard was challenged and defeated.   segregation was shown to create inequality, and the supreme court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

the ruling was important in advancing civil rights because it affirmed that the 14th amendment applies to all rights and privileges of citizens, including access to   education.   this was being violated by states whose laws supported the segregation of schools.   section 1 of the 14th amendment reads as follows:

all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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