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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 2 25H iii Solution by
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For the anticlockwise boundary of the region, the inward normal is the left normal, so the signed curvature obeys the turning tangent theorem . Therefore some has . The enclosed area satisfies , and the planar isoperimetric inequality gives . ConsequentlyThis uses the interpretation of the curve as a simple boundary traversed once; the inward normal and enclosed region in the question have that meaning.
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