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Putnam 2013 B4

  • Session B

For any continuous real-valued function ff defined on the interval [0,1][0,1], let μ(f)=∫01f(x)dx, Var(f)=∫01(f(x)−μ(f))2dx,  M(f)=max⁡0≤x≤1∣f(x)∣.\mu(f) = \int_0^1 f(x) dx,\ \text{Var}(f) = \int_0^1 (f(x) - \mu(f))^2 dx,\ \ M(f) = \max_{0 \leq x \leq 1} |f(x)|. Show that if ff and gg are continuous real-valued functions defined on the interval [0,1][0,1], then Var(fg)≤2Var(f)M(g)2+2Var(g)M(f)2.\text{Var}(fg) \leq 2\text{Var}(f)M(g)^2 + 2\text{Var}(g)M(f)^2.

Dataset text Putnam 1995 to 2025. Quoted with source.

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