Spivak Calculus Question 6 a) Prove that if 0 < x < y, then x^n < y^n, n = 1,2,3,....

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Looked up a solution and the result I found looked nothing like what I had, and so I was wondering if a solution along these lines would work?

I tried to solve the following problem as follows: A problem from Spivak Calculus]

$0 \le x < y \implies [x \in P \land (y/x > 1)] \lor x = 0$

Case 1: $x = 0,x^n = 0$ for any nonnegative n or 0, and since 0 < y it follows $x^n = 0 < y^n$.

Case 2: $x \neq 0 \land x < y.$ If x < y yet again it implies y/x > 1

$x^n < y^n$, we divide both sides by $x^n (x \neq 0)$ and get $1 < (y/x)^n$. Since we know y/x > 1 it follows $(y/x)^n$ to any nonnegative power (except 0, which we don't consider) will still be bigger than 1.

It feels like it should work.

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This is very well suited for mathematical induction... The induction base is trivial, as $0\leq x < y \Rightarrow 0 \leq x < y$. We just need to show that when $0 \leq x < y$ and $x^n < y^n$, we also have that $0 \leq x^{n+1} < y^{n+1}$. This is immediate, since $$ x^{n+1} = x x^n < x y^n < y y^n = y^{n+1} $$

In the previous inequalities I first used the induction hypothesis and then the given fact that $x < y$.