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a printer wants to center a 6inch wide column of text on a page that is 8.5inch wide. if the margins on the two sides are even, how wide should each margin be?

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the answer is 1.25 in. If you take 8.5 in and subtract the 6 in column you get 2.5 inches left, then you divide that by two and get 1.25 in on each side.
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