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Iranian Mathematical Olympiad

Iran algebra

Problem

Suppose that , and are positive real numbers and . Prove that
Solution
Because of the problem's assumption, it is enough to prove that By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we have On the other hand, an easy calculation shows that Finally, we have

Techniques

Cauchy-SchwarzPolynomial operations