SOLUTION: A 26-by-31-inch sheet of paper is to be used for a poster, with the shorter side at the bottom. The margins at the sides and top are to have the same width, and the bottom margin i

Question 946891: A 26-by-31-inch sheet of paper is to be used for a poster, with the shorter side at the bottom. The margins at the sides and top are to have the same width, and the bottom margin is to be twice as wide as the other margins. Find the width of the margins if the printed area is to be 440 in^2.
sides and top:__________in
bottom:___________in

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Drawing a picture would help greatly in analyzing this.

u, the uniform width for the top and sides;
2u, the uniform width at the bottom.

The printed area will be ;
you would transcribe that equation from the drawing.

Can you handle the rest of the arithmetic and solve for u?
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