Calculate the solution using the optimization package in Matlab.

What do
you find if you use the minimum surface area solution as a starting point?
What do you find if you use an alternative starting point?

E.
Starting point Minimum surface area
[1.175, 2.305] 22.352
Testing with different
22.352
starting points.

As we can see, both starting points lead to the same optimal solution. This is
because the objective function and the constraint are both convex, and so the
optimization problem has a unique global maximum. Therefore, the optimization
algorithm will converge to the same optimal solution regardless of the starting
point.