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#1 2008-07-18 06:39:21

tony123
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Registered: 2007-08-03
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maximum value

Determine the maximum value of


if

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#2 2008-07-18 07:50:06

JaneFairfax
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Registered: 2007-02-23
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Re: maximum value

Obviously we would want

for each i for maximum. Thus, by AM–GM,

equality occurring if and only if

.

Togther with

this implies (by symmetry considerations) that
.

Hence

, and

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#3 2008-07-18 12:49:40

cushydom
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Registered: 2008-04-23
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Re: maximum value

dont know if it makes any difference but you dont need all of the sin(x) to be positive. you could have an even number of them be negative

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#4 2008-07-20 09:26:37

JaneFairfax
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Re: maximum value

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