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A poster is 24 cm taller than it is wide. If it is mounted on a piece of cardboard so that there is a 6cm boarder on all sides and if the area of the boarder is 720cmsquared What are the dimensions of the poster
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With W being width of poster, equation to form is: Area of cardboard, less area of border, equals area of poster, OR
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document.write( "Solve this for the width, or W, to get:  cm
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document.write( "Height of poster: 12 + 24, or  cm \n" );
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