the point of global minimum of the function h(x) will be x∗=332,h(x∗)=−364332≈−69.67. For the function g(x)=x2−2x−112, it is obviously true that g(x)⩾−113. Thus, for all admissible x, the expressions
−2x32−2x,x2−2x−112,−2x32−2x−49
lie in the set (−119;+∞), on which the function f(x) is decreasing and negative. Then
(2log27)⋅f(−2x32−2x)−5f(−2x32−2x−49)<(2log27−5)⋅f(−2x32−2x−49)<0 for all admissible x, so the original inequality is equivalent to the inequality
The first inequality of this system is satisfied for all admissible x due to the negativity of f(x), the second one, due to its monotonicity, is equivalent to the inequality x2−2x−112⩽−2x32−2x. It can be rewritten as (x+32−2x)2⩽144, which is equivalent to the system
{32−2x⩽12−x32−2x⩾−12−x
the solutions of which will be x∈[−13−57;8].
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