Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2010 / ii / Paper 2 / 25H / iii

For the anticlockwise boundary of the region, the inward normal is the left normal, so the signed curvature obeys the turning tangent theorem ${\int }_0^{L}k(s)ds=2\pi$. Therefore some $s_0$ has $k(s_0)\le 2\pi /L$. The enclosed area satisfies $A\ge d_1{d}_2$, and the planar isoperimetric inequality gives $L\ge 2\sqrt{\pi A}$. 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.