Problem:
Let be the locus of all points in the first quadrant such that for some with . Find the area of .
Problem:
Let be the locus of all points in the first quadrant such that for some with . Find the area of .
Solution:
Solving for in the given equation, we get . Using the quadratic equation, we get
For all valid combinations of , is positive and less than (this is easy to see by inspection). All valid combinations of are those that make .
Solving for in the equation yields
In the original equation, it is given that , and . This implies that . Then the only possible that satisfies is .
Then to satisfy the inequality , we must have . Recall that this is when . Hence we integrate in the interval :