Posted by faye on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6:43pm.
Use calculus to prove that the minimum perimeter of a rectangle of area 100 square inches is 40 inches, and that happens when all the sides are equal, namely the rectangle is a square.
Therefore any other rectangle having a different perimeter cannot be a square.
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