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A wire of length 20m is to be cut into two pieces. One of the places will be bent into shape of a square and the other shape of an equilateral triangle. Where the wire should be cut so that the sum of the areas of the square and triangle is minimum?

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`(80 pi)/(pi + 4) , (20pi)/(pi + 4)`
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