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Transcribed Image Text:Spacing in a text book for this subject is generally done in units of points and picas: 12
points = 1 pica, and 6 picas = 1 inch. If a figure was misplaced in the page by 0.84cm,
what was the misplacement in (a) picas and (b) points? State units.
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