The top and bottom margins of a poster are each 12 cm and the side margins are each 8 cm. The area of printed material on the poster is fixed at 1536 cm2. Find the dimensions of the printed area that minimize the area of the whole poster.

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Answer:

Dimensions of printed poster are

length is 32 cm

width is 48 cm


Step-by-step explanation:

Let's assume

length of printed poster is x cm

width of printed poster is y cm

now, we can find area of printed poster

so, area of printed poster is

[tex]=xy[/tex]

we are given that area as 1536

so, we can set it to 1536

[tex]xy=1536[/tex]

now, we can solve for y

[tex]y=\frac{1536}{x}[/tex]

now, we are given

The top and bottom margins of a poster are each 12 cm and the side margins are each 8 cm

so, total area of poster is

[tex]A=(8+x+8)\times (12+y+12)[/tex]

[tex]A=(x+16)\times (y+24)[/tex]

now, we can plug back y

[tex]A=(x+16)\times (\frac{1536}{x}+24)[/tex]

now, we have to minimize A

so, we will find derivative

[tex]A'=\frac{d}{dx}\left(\left(x+16\right)\left(\frac{1536}{x}+24\right)\right)[/tex]

we can use product rule

[tex]A'=\frac{d}{dx}\left(x+16\right)\left(\frac{1536}{x}+24\right)+\frac{d}{dx}\left(\frac{1536}{x}+24\right)\left(x+16\right)[/tex]

[tex]=\frac{d}{dx}\left(x+16\right)\left(\frac{1536}{x}+24\right)+\frac{d}{dx}\left(\frac{1536}{x}+24\right)\left(x+16\right)[/tex]

now, we can simplify it

[tex]A'=-\frac{24576}{x^2}+24[/tex]

now, we can set it to 0

and then we can solve for x

[tex]A'=-\frac{24576}{x^2}+24=0[/tex]

[tex]-\frac{24576}{x^2}x^2+24x^2=0\cdot \:x^2[/tex]

[tex]-24576+24x^2=0[/tex]

[tex]x=32,\:x=-32[/tex]

Since, x is dimension

and dimension can never be negative

so, we will only consider positive value

[tex]x=32[/tex]

now, we can solve for y

[tex]y=\frac{1536}{32}[/tex]

[tex]y=48[/tex]

so, dimensions of printed poster are

length is 32 cm

width is 48 cm


We want to find the dimensions of the poster such that the area of the whole poster is minimized.

These are:

Length = 1560cm

Width = 17cm

We can assume that the poster is a rectangle, and we know that a rectangle of length L and width W has an area:

A = L*W

Here we do know that the top and bottom margins are 12cm each.

The side margins are 8cm each.

Then the measures of the printed areas are:

W' = W - 2*8cm = W - 16cm

L' = L - 2*12cm = L - 24cm

And we know that the area of the printed part is 1536 cm^2, then we can write:

A'  = (W - 16cm)*( L - 24cm) = 1536 cm^2

       W*L - 16cm*L - 24cm*W + 384cm^2 = 1536 cm^2

       W*L = 16cm*L + 24cm*W + 1152cm^2

And W*L is equal to the area, so what we need to minimize is:

A =  16cm*L + 24cm*W + 1152cm^2

Here we can see that the dependence of the area is larger on W than on L, so what we need to minimize is W.

We will take the smallest value of W such that the given margins are allowed.

That value would be such that:

W - 16cm > 0

W > 16cm

this could (and to be strict, should) be something like 16.0001cm, but let's use 17cm just to use whole numbers, we will get:

W = 17cm

Then to get the length we solve:

W*L = 16cm*L + 24cm*W + 1152cm^2

17cm*L = 16cm*L + 24cm*17cm + 1152cm^2

1cm*L = 1560cm^2

L = 1560cm

These are the measures that minimize the area.

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