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. What is the minimum value of

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DerekKhu
1year,4monthsago

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From the HM-AM (harmonic mean-arithmetic mean) inequality, we can see that

But the LHS of the inequality is just

, so we have

. The

inequality holds if and only if

, i.e. when
of
is indeed attainable, and our answer is .
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. So the minimum

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HngH
1year,4monthsago

Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz's inequality

and

, then the equality holds. So the mininum value of

11

. If

;
is 64.

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HeroP.
1year,4monthsago

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From the AM-GM inequality, for any positive reals

with equality attained when

, note

. Now since

with equality attained if

With the added constraint that

, we find

satisfies the conditions and achieves the minimum, which is

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MihaiNipomici
1year,4monthsago

By Cauchy Inequality we have (1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t)*(x+y+z+t)>=

(sqrt(1)+sqrt(1)+sqrt(4)+sqrt(16))^2=(1+1+2+4)^2=8^2=64
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PranshuGaba
1year,4monthsago

Let the required expression

be

If we are able to find numbers, such that their sum is

reciprocals is
, i.e. ; then using the
minimum value of P. Here
mean of the numbers.
This means that for each
coefficient of
and , and

, i.e. 1; and the sum of their

inequality we can find the

is the arithmetic mean of the numbers, and

is the harmonic

and , we have to find values of and such that is the

is the coefficient for . is the no. of times term is repeated.

The following equation is obtained for .

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and
and
Similarly, we get the following equations for

and

and
and
and
So, we get the following terms,
.
The

of these numbers is

The

of these numbers is

Using the

inequality, we get

Thus, we can conclude that the minimum value of

, i.e.

is 64.

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JoshuaRichardTheodoroes
1year,4monthsago

{(1/x)^2+(1/y)^2+(2/z)^2+(4/t)^2} {(x)^2+(y)^2+(z)^2+(t)^2}{(1/x)(x)+(1/
y)(y)+(2/z)(z)+(4/t)(t)}^2 (1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t)(1)(1+1+2+4)^2
(1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t)(8)^2 (1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t)(1)64. Done.Sorry i do not know how to use latex
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KevinChang
1year,4monthsago

By Cauchy-Schwarz, we have (x+y+z+t)(1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t)>=(1+1+2+4)^2=64. We know that

x+y+z+t=1, so we have 1/x+1/y+4/z+16/t>=64.
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PatrickCorn
1year,4monthsago

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The minimum must be a local minimum on the hyperplane

in 4-space. It's not on
the boundary
of the region in question, because the quantity actually increases without
bound as it approaches that boundary.
To find the local minima, we use Lagrange multipliers; they say that
should be parallel to
. Since all the variables are positive,
we get
. This quickly leads to
Since there is only
one extremum in the region, it's either a global minimum or a global maximum, and it's clearly a
global minimum because the expression blows up at the boundary. Plugging in, we get an answer of
.
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PedroMouro
1year,4monthsago

Considere a funcao f(x,y,z,t)=1/x + 1/y + 4/z + 16/t Existe uma restricao: x+y+z+t=1 Derive
f(x,y,z,t) com relao a apenas uma das variaveis e iguale a uma constante L, multiplicada a derivada
de g(x,y,z,t) com relao apenas a essa mesma varivel Para x, temos: A derivada de f apenas em
relacao a x a derivada de 1/x: -1/x A derivada de g apenas em relao a x a derivada de x: 1 Logo
voce escreve: -1/x = L1 Faca o mesmo para todas as variaveis, utilizando o mesmo L: -1/y = L1
-4/z = L1 -16/t = L1 Chame L de -1/c^2 -1/x = L = -1/c => x = c -1/y = L = -1/c => y= c -4/z
= L = -1/c => z = 2c -16/t = L = -1/c => t = 4c Agora, use o fato de x+y+z+t = 1 pra achar c.
c+c+2c+4c = 1 8c=1 c=1/8 Assim, temos: x=1/8 y=1/8 z=21/8=1/4 t=41/8=1/2 f(1/8,1/8,1/4,1/2) =
8+8+44+162=64
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SyifaAdelia
1year,4monthsago

x<=y<z<t and we get x=1/8 y=1/8 z=1/4 t=1/2

1/x + 1/y + 4/z + 16/t = 8 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 64
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MarcielSilvadeAlmeida
1year,4monthsago

Once we have

and

, and x,y,z,t belong to

, we may conclude

that:
I- If one of them belonged to , the sum would not be 1. So, they belong to
II - Since they're fractions, they may be written as
III-

. And

V - So
VI-

IV- To reach the lowest sum,

.Then,

must be the lowest possible. For this,

must be the lowest. So,

.
.

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Using the same metod, we may infer, firstly, that would be

, must be the lowest possible, and, in this case(
Obviously, we may say that
make

, because different numbers would make

for every variable(

When we affirm that

. But, we have to consider that

),
.

for

that would

).

. Then
.

So, the minimum number is 64.

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