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apollo1

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i used the discriminant for part (i) and got the required expression. but i didnt know what to put as my explanation.
 

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As a>o the original integral has to also be > 0 (due to the square) so that means a, b and c in the quadratic are greater than 0, and we form a positive definite quadratic, we know its positive definite as a and c will be greater than b
 

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basically state that

then


also state that a > 0

then do what you did to follow on. From there onwards you should be fine.
 
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As a>o the original integral has to also be > 0 (due to the square) so that means a, b and c in the quadratic are greater than 0, and we form a positive definite quadratic, we know its positive definite as a and c will be greater than b
cool thanks. and also thanks to 4025808.
 

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From i) we know that:




if we let:



into the above inequality we get:



which simplifies to:



and now part ii) is done.

For part iii) first we square the inequality from ii) to get:



So now to finish this question we have to prove that:



To do this we let:



for part i, which gives us:



this simplifies to:



so now we sub this result into:



which yields:



and we are done.

For part iii) we couldn't let:



as this obviously looks stupid, so we let f(x)=1 and
as mentioned above
 

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