A Product of Area Ratios
Problem
Consider the parabola . A point on the parabola lies in the first quadrant, and the tangent line at meets the -axis at a point . The line through perpendicular to meets the parabola at two points and , with in the first quadrant, and meets the -axis at a point . Let be the origin.
1. If the -coordinate of is , find the equation of the tangent line . 2. Let , , denote the areas of , , respectively. Find the minimum value of
Answer
Solution
| Difficulty | 8/10 |
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| Topics | conic sections, AM-GM, Vieta's Formulas |
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