For any positive real numbers with prove the following inequality:
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Without loss of generality, assume that . The inequality can be rewritten as
Since , we have that . So, it is sufficient to prove that . From the problem condition , hence, we need to prove the following inequality
Expanding the brackets and multiplying by , we obtain the inequality: , which follows from the AM-GM inequality:
Solution 2
We can rewrite our inequality in the form
We will use the Schur's inequality :
and the AM-GM inequality for two numbers. With , , , we have
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