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Determinant of sum of positive definite matrices

Say A and B are symmetric, positive definite matrices.

I've proved that det(A+B) >= det(A) + det(B) in the case that A and B are two dimensional.

Is this true in general for n-dimensional matrices?

Is it even true that det(A+B) >= det(A) [as this would also be enough..]

Thanks

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