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          Volume 9, Issue 3, Article 78 | 
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             The Arithmetic-Algebraic Mean Inequality via Symmetric Means
 
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          Authors:  | 
          Oscar G. Villareal,  | 
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          Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Symmetric mean, Inequality | 
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          Date Received: 
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          02/08/08 | 
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          Date Accepted: 
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          06/08/08 | 
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             Primary 26D15 
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          Editors:  | 
          Peter S. Bullen,   | 
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          Abstract: | 
           
              We give two proofs of the arithmetic-algebraic mean inequality by giving a characterization of symmetric means.
             
          
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