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Ukrajina 2008

Ukraine 2008 algebra

Problem

Prove that inequality is true for any random nonnegative real numbers which obey equality .
Solution
Cauchy-Bunyakowsky inequality implies that you just have to prove the following inequality:

We obtain for non-negative . Therefore, . If we add all these inequalities, we obtain that it's enough to prove that: . This inequality is equivalent to , which has already been proved.

Techniques

Cauchy-SchwarzQM-AM-GM-HM / Power Mean