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          Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 15 | 
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             The Equal Variable Method
 
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          Authors:  | 
          Vasile Cirtoaje,  | 
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          Symmetric inequalities, Power means, EV-Theorem. | 
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          Date Received: 
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          01/03/06 | 
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          Date Accepted: 
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          17/04/06 | 
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             26D10, 26D20. 
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          Editors:  | 
          Peter S. Bullen,   | 
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          Abstract: | 
           
              The Equal Variable Method (called also   Equal Variable Method on the Mathlinks Site - Inequalities Forum) can be used to prove some difficult symmetric inequalities involving either three power means or, more general, two power means and an expression of form   . 
             
          
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