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Hy all! I'm having trouble finding a proof for the following problem:

Show that $a^x+b^x+c^x>(a+b+c)^x$, if $a,b,c>0$ and $0<x<1$ (over the real numbers).

This inequality has been torturing me for long hours the least. I couldn't find anything on Google. This kind of equation isn't made for search engines tbh.

Anyway, I really thinked about it a lot but didn't make any significant progress. It would be great to see a proof without the really high-end Mathematics. Any ideas to start with?

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First divide out to reduce it to $a^x+b^x+c^x>1$, for $a, b, c<1$. Then use arithmetic-geometric inequality. – awllower Feb 10 at 2:11
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Essentially a duplicate of math.stackexchange.com/questions/264156/prove-that-pqm-leq-pmqm – sdcvvc Feb 10 at 2:14
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... because $(a+(b+c))^x\le a^x+(b+c)^x\le a^x+b^x+c^x$. – user53153 Feb 10 at 3:14

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