Churchill Complex Variables 7e: Section 5 - Exercise 7 Page 1 of 1

Exercise 7
Use established properties of moduli to show that when |z3 | =
6 |z4 |,

z 1 + z2 |z1 | + |z2 |
≤ .
z 3 + z4 ||z3 | − |z4 ||

Solution

Apply the triangle inequality twice—once in the numerator to make it as big as possible and once
in the denominator to make it as small as possible.

z1 + z2 |z1 + z2 |
=
z3 + z4 |z3 + z4 |
|z1 | + |z2 |
≤
|z3 + z4 |
|z1 | + |z2 |
≤
||z3 | − |z4 ||

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