Question

In a restaurant, the daily menu is mounted on wallboard. The printed region with today's entrees includes 216, space square inches of text. If there are two-inch margins on the sides and three-inch margins at the bottom and the top, what are the dimensions of the smallest piece of wallboard that can be used for the menu?

Answer 1

Answer:

"16 24"

Step-by-step explanation:

Because it is 2 to 3.

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Answer 2

Answer:

297 mm by 230 mm

Step-by-step explanation:

Data:

Let the x be the length of the horizontal side of the paper

and      y be the length of the vertical side of the printable page.

By normal convention, this yields an A4 paper of dimensions 297 × 230 mm.