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Mongolian Mathematical Olympiad

Mongolia algebra

Problem

For real numbers , , satisfying and , prove that the inequality holds.
Solution
For any , we have . Thus it suffices to prove that Since , this is equivalent to proving the following: Here and implies that . Since it is impossible to have and , inequality never holds.

Techniques

QM-AM-GM-HM / Power MeanPolynomial operations