Minimizing Area
There is a rectangle and a path that goes from the bottom-left corner to the top-right. The path can only move upwards or towards the right. Draw a vertical line through the rectangle. Now look at the area under the curve to the left of , and the area above the curve to the right of . Call this total area . In the example figure below, is the dotted line and is the shaded area.
What is the line that minimizes ?