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Ireland geometry

Problem

Suppose , are the in-radius and circum-radius of triangle . Show that with equality in both inequalities iff is equilateral.
Solution
Let stand for the area of . Consider the LHS. Note that

Consider the RHS. Since , etc, we have that

Thus the inequality holds, and there is equality throughout iff

One can obtain the RHS a little differently using the facts that

Techniques

Triangle trigonometryTriangle inequalitiesTriangle inequalitiesCauchy-SchwarzJensen / smoothing