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Team Selection Test for IMO 2007

Turkey 2007 algebra

Problem

Show that for all positive real numbers , , satisfying the equality .
Solution
Using the condition and the inequality , we get Writing this inequality in the form and adding the inequalities obtained cyclically from this, we obtain the required inequality.

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power MeanLinear and quadratic inequalities