Question

The harmonic mean of two real numbers x and y equals 2xy/(x + y). By computing the harmonic and geometric means of different pairs of positive real numbers, formulate a conjecture about their relative sizes and prove your conjecture.

Answer 1

Answer:

Conjecture :  2xy / ( x + y ) ≤  √xy

Step-by-step explanation:

Harmonic mean of  x and y = 2xy/( x + y )

Formulate a conjecture about their relative sizes

we will achieve this by computing harmonic and geometric means

Geometric mean = √xy

harmonic mean = 2xy/( x + y )

Conjecture :  2xy / ( x + y ) ≤  √xy

attached below is the proof