Two problems

Here are two good questions from Mathlinks , maybe you should give it a try .

1 > Let the positive integers a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , a 4 .... satisfy this eqn . ,

{ 1 / √ a 1 } + { 1 / √ a 2 } + .... { 1 / √ a 100 } = 20 .

Prove that there must two integers which are same .

P . S -------- >> What would have happened if the sum was 19 instead of 20 ???

{ this actually is a hint : ) ; ) }

2 . Prove the following inequality -

3 { a + √ a b + 3 a b c } ≤ { 8 + 2 √ a ba + b } { 3a ( a + b ) ( a + b + c ) 6 }

where a , b , c are positive reals .

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Devil ·

For the 1st sum, u simply need an inequality.

\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}<2(\sqrt{k}-\sqrt{k-1}) for naturals k.

For any set of 100 naturals (denote them by a_i,) we have \sum_{i=1}^{100}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{a_i}} \right)<\sum_{x=1}^{100}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \right)

We have from the above stated inequality for the 1st 100 naturals, \sum_{x=1}^{100}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \right)<20 , proving there exists at least 2 naturals in the given set which are equal.

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student ·

plz latexify second inequality nothing is clear [1]

1
Ricky ·

By Holder's inequality ,

a + √ a b + 3 a b c ≤ { a + a + a } 1 / 3 { a + √ a b + b } 1 / 3 { a + b + c } 1 / 3

≤ 3 2 / 3 { a + √ a b + b } 1 / 3 { 2a + b } 1 / 3 { 3a (a + b ) ( a + b + c )6 }

It remains to show that ,

3 5 / 2 { a + √ a b + b } 1 / 3 { 2a + b } 1 / 3 ≤ 8 + 2 √ a ba + b

Or equivalently ,

3 5 { 2 + 2 √ a ba + b } ≤ { 8 + 2 √ a ba + b } 3

Let x = 2 √ a ba + b .

Using AM - GM ,

3 5 { 2 + x } = 3 3 [ 3 . 3 . { 2 + x } ] ≤ 3 3 { 3 + 3 + 2 + x3 } 3 = { 8 + x } 3

You could look up Wikipedia for a slightly modified inequality of this one , but I forgot its name .

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