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SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia algebra

Problem

Let where are three nonzero real numbers satisfying the following system of inequalities:

Prove that can take on any real values when vary.
Solution
First, if , then the given system becomes So, all triples , with and , satisfy the given system of inequalities.

Next, note that the range of is and that, for such triples, . Then for each value , we need only consider the following cases:

1. If , we can choose , and get .

2. If , we let and choose such that . Then .

3. If , we choose and get .

Therefore, can take on any real values when vary.

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean