AM-GM Inequality Basic question

Algebra Level 1

If x y > 0 xy>0 and f ( x ) = x y + y x f(x)=\frac{x}{y}+\frac{y}{x} What is the minimum value of f ( x ) f(x) ?


The answer is 2.

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1 solution

Junghwan Han
Aug 16, 2019

Since x y > 0 xy>0 x y > 0 \displaystyle{\frac{x}{y}}>0 y x > 0 \displaystyle{\frac{y}{x}}>0

So we can use the Arithmetic Mean-Geometric Mean Inequality:

x y + y x 2 x y × y x = 1 \frac{\frac{x}{y}+\frac{y}{x}}{2}\geq\sqrt{\frac{x}{y}\times\frac{y}{x}}=1

f ( x ) 2 \therefore f(x)\geq2

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