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The parabola has the normal at the point . This normal meets the parabola again at a second point. The area of the region enclosed between the parabola and this normal chord is
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Answer: (B)
At the tangent slope is , so the normal has slope : . Substituting gives , so or , i.e. the second intersection is . Integrating with respect to , the line lies to the right of the parabola: area . The value is half of this (a common slip from using a triangle-type formula) and is the area for a different chord. Integrating along the y-axis keeps the region as a single strip, which is simpler than splitting the area at x=4.
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