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Icon: calendar Undergraduate Paper Session I-2 #1 | 2025 Feb 28 from 02:00PM to 02:15PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) | Phillips 215

‟An Alternative Proof of a Sandwich Type Inequality” by Wei-Kai Lai <laiw@mailbox.sc.edu>, University of South Carolina Salkehatchie

Abstract:

In the book, Algebraic Inequalities: New Vistas, Andreescu and Saul proved an inequality in one of the exercises: for fractions $\frac{a_1}{b_1} ,\frac{a_2}{b_2},\cdots, \frac{a_n}{b_a}$ , if $m$ and $M$ are the smallest and largest of these fractions, we have $m\leq \frac{a_1+\cdots+a_n}{b_1+\cdots+b_n}\leq M$. Recently, while solving a problem in the journal, MathAMATYC Educator, Vol.15, No.3, Problem Section, we realized that the solution to this problem can be generalized to a proof of the inequality by Andreescu and Saul. In this talk, we will introduce the proof by Andreescu and Saul, and then we will present our new proof.