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China Girls' Mathematical Olympiad

China algebra

Problem

Let and be positive real numbers with . Prove that . (posed by Xiong Bin)
Solution
In view of , it suffices to show that . Expanding the left-hand side of the last inequality and canceling the like terms we obtain . By the AM-GM inequality, we have .

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean