Exercise 323Logic, sets and proofs › Proof techniques › InductionL1Added 31 Oct 2026
Bernoulli's inequality
#induction#inequalities
Statement
Prove that for every real and every integer ,
Hint
Use induction on , and remember that .
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Solution
Base case. For both sides equal .
Induction step. Assume . Since , multiplying by keeps the inequality:
So the statement holds for , and by induction for all .