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Given information

Note that given, a rectangular beam will be cut from a cylindrical log of radius inches.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Use concept:

Pythagoras theorem: In a triangle, the sum of the squares of the triangle legs' lengths equals the square of the triangle hypotenuse's length.

Let be the depth of the rectangle and be the width of the rectangle.
The value of depth and width are equal then the area is square.
Observe that from the given data the diagonal of the rectangle length .

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