Let be a point in the interior of triangle . Lines intersect sides at , respectively. Prove that
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Let be the areas of triangle , , , respectively. Let and be the projections of and on side . Triangles and are similar, hence we have
where is area of triangle . From (1) we get
In analogous way we obtain
The inequality is equivalent to
that is
Inequality (3) follows by applying three times the inequality , where .

We have equality if and only if , hence if and only if , the centroid of triangle .
Solution 2
We will use so-called Van Aubel relation, that is
In order to prove (1), we use Menelaos Theorem for triangle and collinear points , and for triangle and collinear points . We get
From (2) we obtain
hence relation (1) since .
Writing the similar relations to (1) for Cevians and , we have
It follows
and the inequality follows from AM-GM inequality for two numbers.