Inequality of Arithmetic and Geometric Means - The Inequality

The Inequality

Restating the inequality using mathematical notation, we have that for any list of n nonnegative real numbers x1, x2, . . ., xn,

and that equality holds if and only if x1 = x2 = · · · = xn.

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