7. A7 (IRE) Let be positive real numbers, . Denote by their geometric mean, and by the sequence of arithmetic means defined by . Let be the geometric mean of . Prove the inequality
and establish the cases of equality.
Solution
7. Let us set for , where we define . We observe that . Now we can write the LHS of the inequality to be proved in terms of , as follows:
By the AM-GM inequality we have
Also by the AM-GM inequality, we have
Adding (1) and (2), we obtain the desired inequality. Equality holds if and only if .
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