Re: Inequalities
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- Subject: [mg69692] Re: Inequalities
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:29:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <eeqpop$oe3$1 at smc.vnet.net>, misha <iamisha1 at comcast.net>
wrote:
> I am an inexperienced user and am wondering whether Mathematica can help
> me with inequalities such as the following.
>
> Given 0 < p < q < 1,
>
> When is p(1-p)<q(1-q)?
>
> It should be, if 1 - q > p.
Use Reduce:
Reduce[{p (1 - p) < q (1 - q), 0 < p < q < 1}]
Cheers,
Paul
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