Numbers , , satisfy the conditions:
What values can the expression take?
Numbers , , satisfy the conditions:
What values can the expression take?
Let us subtract from the left and right parts of each equality and obtain:
and analogously from the other two equalities. Because of the conditions of existence of expressions, none of the variables equals , so we can multiply these equalities by the corresponding denominator:
and similarly for the other variables. Then we multiply all the equalities:
If, e.g., , we immediately get that , hence . In this case . If none of the variables is equal to , then we can divide by , and therefore obtain . Note that the value is when , and it is for .