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(above results and the one in the 3U thread are verified since they come from the book, Summation of Series - Jolley)
 
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First transforming the wanted inequality so its easier to solve:





This is what we need to prove, transforming the above AM-GM inequality:



So we simply need to select numbers a_1, a_2, ... , a_n so that we get (*)

For simplicity sake, let

Now we find a_1 so that we yield (*)





Yielding yielding the wanted inequality.
 

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I like how you answer your own questions
 

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I like how you answer your own questions
Because some people want to know solutions of these questions?

In the past people have asked for solutions to a lot of these questions, and I thought this thread would be of little benefit to people if they don't know the solutions to these questions.
 
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Sure I'll just leave all questions here that are old to be unanswered rather than post the solutions for other people to benefit
No need to be sarcastic about it =)
 

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Post solutions that does not involve divergence/convergence? Thx.
I'm afraid you would have to prove the sum converges in order to find it, however I doubt that the Sydney grammar teachers who made this question expected students to do so.









-> A Sydney Grammar teacher may be satisfied with simply the statement that u_n is increasing therefore 1/u_n converges to zero (I could be wrong, I don't know the marking criteria, however that is my guess), however a rigorous proof of the limit is given below:















 

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A point P is chosen inside the unit square at random. What is the probability that P is closer to the centre of the square than any side thereof?

Bonus: Solve this for a cube, replacing the word "side" with "face".
 

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I'm afraid you would have to prove the sum converges in order to find it, however I doubt that the Sydney grammar teachers who made this question expected students to do so.









-> A Sydney Grammar teacher may be satisfied with simply the statement that u_n is increasing therefore 1/u_n converges to zero (I could be wrong, I don't know the marking criteria, however that is my guess), however a rigorous proof of the limit is given below:















Thx Sy123.
 

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A point P is chosen inside the unit square at random. What is the probability that P is closer to the centre of the square than any side thereof?

Bonus: Solve this for a cube, replacing the word "side" with "face".
On first thoughts, you would just construct a circle within the square which has a radius a quarter that of the side length of the square. Then do the area of the circle divided by the area of the square. Similarly for the bonus, you construct a sphere and do the volume of the sphere divided by the volume of the cube.
 

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I got,

I want to figure out the bonus before I post my solution for this one.
 

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On first thoughts, you would just construct a circle within the square which has a radius a quarter that of the side length of the square. Then do the area of the circle divided by the area of the square. Similarly for the bonus, you construct a sphere and do the volume of the sphere divided by the volume of the cube.
Nah, the regions won't be circles and spheres.
 

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Will check now...I didn't actually do the calculation.
Its just 4 times the area bounded by the region (in the Cartesian plane where the square's co-ordinates are (0,0) (1,0) (1,1) and (0,1) ) , ??
 

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Its just 4 times the area bounded by the region (in the Cartesian plane where the square's co-ordinates are (0,0) (1,0) (1,1) and (0,1) ) , ??
yeah that sounds about right
 

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I got:

(4*sqrt(2)-5)/3 and am pretty confident about it...
 

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I got:

(4*sqrt(2)-5)/3 and am pretty confident about it...
Well firstly I found the complementary probability, the probability that its closer to the face instead :/
And even then I still get the wrong answer because I don't know to find the area of a triangle properly and used the wrong base length.

I think it should be, and I'm not bothered to do the calculation again



The above is supposed to be 4 times the area of the region bounded by the cartesian equations:






dem mistakes
 
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Well firstly I found the complementary probability, the probability that its closer to the face instead :/
And even then I still get the wrong answer because I don't know to find the area of a triangle properly and used the wrong base length.

I think it should be, and I'm not bothered to do the calculation again



The above is supposed to be 4 times the area of the region bounded by the cartesian equations:






dem mistakes
Yeah your equations are pretty similar to mine. Did mine quite carefully so am pretty sure its right. Will try the 3d one in a sec.
 
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