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A wire of length 28 m is to be cut into two pieces . One of the pieces is to be made into a square and the other into a circle . What should be the lengths of the two pieces so the two pieces so that the combined area of the circle and the square is minimum.

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`(28pi)/(pi+4)m and (112)/(pi+4)m`
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