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Minimizing Area

geometry
Published

December 10, 2022

Source: The second problem in this video.

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 LLL through the rectangle. Now look at the area under the curve to the left of LLL, and the area above the curve to the right of LLL. Call this total area ALA_LAL​. In the example figure below, LLL is the dotted line and ALA_LAL​ is the shaded area.

Area associated with the path and a line LLL.

What is the line LLL that minimizes ALA_LAL​?


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