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Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad

Bulgaria algebra

Problem

Prove that if and , then
Solution
First solution. The inequality follows by the fact that if , then

Second solution. Set , and . Then , and we have to prove that This inequality can be written as To prove the last inequality, it remains to use that is equivalent to .

Techniques

Linear and quadratic inequalities