I’ve seen the full proof of the Triangle Inequality
|x+y|≤|x|+|y|.
However, I haven’t seen the proof of the reverse triangle inequality:
||x|−|y||≤|x−y|.
Would you please prove this using only the Triangle Inequality above?Thank you very much.
Answer
|x|+|y−x|≥|x+y−x|=|y|
|y|+|x−y|≥|y+x−y|=|x|
Move |x| to the right hand side in the first inequality and |y| to the right hand side in the second inequality. We get
|y−x|≥|y|−|x|
|x−y|≥|x|−|y|.
From absolute value properties, we know that |y−x|=|x−y|, and if t≥a and t≥−a then t≥|a|.
Combining these two facts together, we get the reverse triangle inequality:
|x−y|≥||x|−|y||.
Attribution
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