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A nichrome wire uniform cross-sectional area is bent to form a rectangular loop ABCD. Another nichrome wire of the same cross-section is connected to form the diagonal AC. Find out the ratio of the resistances across BD and AC if AB = 0.4 m and BC = 0.3 m.

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`R_(BD)/R_(AC)=59/35`
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