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Algebra Difficulty 5.4 AIME, harder Prove it

Let a,b,c a, b, c be positive real numbers such that abc=23 a b c = \frac{2}{3} . Prove that

aba+b+bcb+c+cac+aa+b+ca3+b3+c3 \frac{a b}{a+b} + \frac{b c}{b+c} + \frac{c a}{c+a} \geqslant \frac{a+b+c}{a^{3}+b^{3}+c^{3}}

Solution

Alternative Solution by PSC. By the Power Mean Inequality we have

a3+b3+c33(a+b+c3)3 \frac{a^{3}+b^{3}+c^{3}}{3} \geqslant\left(\frac{a+b+c}{3}\right)^{3}

So it is enough to prove that

(a+b+c)2(aba+b+bcb+c+cac+a)9 (a+b+c)^{2}\left(\frac{a b}{a+b}+\frac{b c}{b+c}+\frac{c a}{c+a}\right) \geqslant 9

or equivalently, that

(a+b+c)2(1ac+bc+1ba+ca+1cb+ab)272 (a+b+c)^{2}\left(\frac{1}{a c+b c}+\frac{1}{b a+c a}+\frac{1}{c b+a b}\right) \geqslant \frac{27}{2}

Since (a+b+c)23(ab+bc+ca)=32((ac+bc)+(ba+ca)+(cb+ac))(a+b+c)^{2} \geqslant 3(a b+b c+c a)=\frac{3}{2}((a c+b c)+(b a+c a)+(c b+a c)), then (5) follows by the Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality.

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