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Croatia 2018 algebra

Problem

Let be a positive integer. Prove that for all the following holds:
Solution
Since , we conclude that , i.e. Denote . Notice that, because of the previous bound, it suffices to show that This inequality obviously holds since it is equivalent to .

Techniques

Linear and quadratic inequalities