JEE Main 2023MathematicsSequences And SeriesAm Gm And HmmediumMCQ

JEE Main 2023Sequences And Series Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2023 (Online) 11th April Evening Shift

Question

Let and be positive real numbers such that . If the maximum value of is , then the value of is

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Correct answer
C90

Step-by-step explanation

Given that and the maximum value of is , you assumed the numbers to be .

Applying the AM-GM inequality:



Since , we have:



Now, raising both sides to the power of 11:



From the given information, we know that :



Now, we can solve for :



Since we are looking for the maximum value of , we take the equality case:



Calculating the value, we find that:



So, the value of is 90.

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