Find Min of function $x+\frac{2}{x}$ for x>0 with following solution? I want to find Minimum of function $x+\frac{2}{x}$ for $x>0$ with following solution. My problem is how can we say we found the answer with following solution.
Solution:
Let Minimum be something like c. We have:
$x+\frac{2}{x} \ge c \to \frac{x^2+2}{x} \ge c \to x^2 + 2 \ge cx \to x^2 -cx +2 \ge 0 $
So $\Delta \le 0$ because the quadratic must not have two solutions so it will be only positive or zero. So:
$\Delta = c^2 - 8 \le 0 \to c^2 \le 8 \to -2\sqrt{2} \le c \le +2\sqrt{2}$
My question is how can we say with following solution that the minimum  of $x+\frac{x}{2}$ must be $+2\sqrt{2}$? We find the maximum of $c$, How can we say that maximum is minimum of function? Is it a valid solution?
Thanks and sorry for my English.

Let's look at the original inequality $$x + \frac{2}{x} \ge c$$ after you have concluded that $$-2\sqrt{2} \le c \le 2\sqrt{2}.$$  If we suppose $c = 0$, then is the original inequality true?  Yes:  $x + 2/x \ge 0$ is a true statement for $x > 0$.  Indeed, any value of $c$ in the interval you obtained, when substituted into the first inequality, results in a true statement, by construction.  But all of the inequalities resulting from choosing $c < 2 \sqrt{2}$ are looser than the inequality resulting from choosing $c = 2 \sqrt{2}$, in the sense that for any $c' < 2 \sqrt{2}$, we trivially have $$x + \frac{2}{x} \ge 2 \sqrt{2} > c',$$ hence $c = 2 \sqrt{2}$ results in the tightest inequality of the set of choices we can make.
The only missing part is to show that equality can be attained for this choice of $c$ thus guaranteeing that the inequality is strict, and of course, this occurs when $x = 2/x = \sqrt{2}.$
