Posted by patrick on Monday, July 16, 2012 at 10:25pm.
Assumption:
The rectangle lies in the first quadrant
let the point of contact of the rectangle with y = 1/x
be P(x,y)
area = xy
= x(1/x) = 1 square unit
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