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Algebra Level 2

For an equation where x x is positive 10 x + 10 x \displaystyle10x+\dfrac{10}{x} What is it's minimum value?


The answer is 20.

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4 solutions

Daniel Lim
Jul 22, 2014

x + 1 x 2 x+\dfrac{1}{x}\geq 2

So answer is 20 \boxed{20}

yeah i think it the most easiest way to solve it

Mardokay Mosazghi - 6 years, 10 months ago

But what if x = 1 x=-1

Peter Finn - 6 years, 10 months ago

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Hmm, I think I should edit the problem statement.

Thanks :D

Daniel Lim - 6 years, 10 months ago
敬全 钟
Jul 22, 2014

By AM-GM, we get 10 x + 10 x 2 10 x 10 x = 2 10 10 = 2 10 = 20 10x+\frac{10}{x}\geq 2\sqrt{10x\cdot\frac{10}{x}}=2\sqrt{10\cdot10}=2\cdot10=20

well, minimum value, of an INTEGER positive x

Gilberto Flores - 6 years, 10 months ago
Casey McNamara
Jul 22, 2014

Taking the derivative and setting it to zero gives you

10 - 10x^-2 = 0

Then x^2 = 1, and x = +1 or -1 are the interesting points of this function.

At x = +1 you get 20. At x = -1 you get -20.

You can tell that the function increases to either side of x = +1 using more calculus or just trying some points (x = 1/10 gives 101, as does x = 10), so there's a local minimum at x = +1.

You can actually make the function arbitrarily small using negative values of x. x = -10 gives a result of -101. As x goes to negative infinity, the function goes to 10x. Because I can't type negative infinity into the answer box, I decided you meant to restrict to positive values of x. But I think you should edit the question to make this clear, if that is a thing you can do.

Here I answered the value of X instead of the lowest value of the equation.

Dale Einarson - 6 years, 10 months ago
Muzzammal Alfath
Jul 25, 2014

It's minimum when 10x = 10/x, Because x is positive we get x=1. Then the minimum value is 20

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