Knot is on an epic quest to save the land of Hyruler from the evil Gammadorf. To do this, he must collect the two pieces of the Lineforce, then go to the Temple of Lime. As shown on the figure, Knot starts on point , and must travel to point , where and . However, he must first reach both solid lines in the figure below to collect the pieces of the Lineforce. What is the minimal distance Knot must travel to do so?
Solution
Let and be the lines as labeled in the above diagram. First, suppose Knot visits first, at point , then , at point . Let be the reflection of over , and let be the reflection of over . The length of Knot's path is at least by the Triangle Inequality (This bound can be achieved by taking to be the intersections of with , respectively.) Also, note that \measuredangle K^{\prime} O T^{\prime}=90^{\circ}K^{\prime} T^{\prime}=2 \sqrt{5}l_{2}Q_{2}l_{1}Q_{1}K^{\prime \prime}Kl_{2}T^{\prime \prime}Tl_{1}K^{\prime \prime} T^{\prime \prime}K^{\prime \prime} T^{\prime \prime}>K^{\prime} T^{\prime}2 \sqrt{5}$.
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