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A wire of length 36m 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 that the combined area of the square and the circle is minimum?

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`(144)/(4+pi) m and (36pi)(4+pi)m`
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