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Use Cavalieri's Principle to find the area of the region.

In the example we see a "leaning tower" with base 'a' and height 'b'. The left side of the leaning rectangle is given by y = x^2, the right side given by y = (x - a)^2

the answer to this problem is A=ba
but can anybody show/explain why?

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