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A rectangle sits in the first quadrant with its base on the x-axis and its left side on the y-axis. Its upper right hand corner is on the line passing through the points (0, 4) and (3, 0). What is the largest possible area of this rectangle?

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first draw it and put that numbers in x-axis and y-axis and draw, it will be a rectengle and muliply both largest sides and you will get the largest area
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Answer:The greatest area occurs when the rectangle has a width of 4 and a height of 8 leading to a maximum area of 32

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