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azureus88

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Use the fact that [maths]f(x)=(ax-b)^2+(cx-d)^2\geq 0[/maths] to prove [maths]|ab+cd|\leq \sqrt{a^2+c^2}\sqrt{b^2+d^2}[/maths] (a,b,c,d real)

It's obvious if you just use [maths]2abcd\leq a^2d^2+b^2c^2[/maths] to prove [maths]\sqrt{(ab+cd)^2}\leq \sqrt{(a^2+c^2)(b^2+d^2)}[/maths] but how would you do the question using f(x) ?
 

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here you go

edit:

it shoodnt be "there are no intercepts with the x axis"

but rather "there may be either 1 or 0 intercepts, hence discriminant <= 0"
 
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I believe this is the closest you will ever get to the maths version of street cred.
 

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Use the fact that [maths]f(x)=(ax-b)^2+(cx-d)^2\geq 0[/maths] to prove [maths]|ab+cd|\leq \sqrt{a^2+c^2}\sqrt{b^2+d^2}[/maths] (a,b,c,d real)

It's obvious if you just use [maths]2abcd\leq a^2d^2+b^2c^2[/maths] to prove [maths]\sqrt{(ab+cd)^2}\leq \sqrt{(a^2+c^2)(b^2+d^2)}[/maths] but how would you do the question using f(x) ?
Classic Proof for the Cauchy Schwarz inequality. You can also substitute:
[maths] x = \dfrac{ab+cd}{a^2 + c^2} [/maths] into f(x)

Now try this

Use the fact that [maths]f(x)=|ax-b|^2+|cx-d|^2\geq 0[/maths] to prove [maths]|a\bar{b}+c\bar{d}|\leq \sqrt{(|a|^2+|c|^2)(|b|^2+|d|^2)}[/maths] where a,b,c,d are complex numbers
 
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