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Algebra Difficulty 6.1 National olympiad Prove it

77. Given a,b,c>0a, b, c > 0, prove: a3b+2c+b3c+2a+c3a+2ba2+b2+c23\frac{a^{3}}{b+2 c}+\frac{b^{3}}{c+2 a}+\frac{c^{3}}{a+2 b} \geqslant \frac{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}}{3}. (1996 Ukrainian Mathematical Olympiad Problem)

Solution

 77. a3b+2c+b3c+2a+c3a+2b=a4ab+2ac+b4bc+2ab+c4ac+2bc(a2+b2+c2)2ab+2ac+bc+2ab+ac+2bc=(a2+b2+c2)a2+b2+c23(ab+bc+ac)\text { 77. } \begin{array}{l} \frac{a^{3}}{b+2 c}+\frac{b^{3}}{c+2 a}+\frac{c^{3}}{a+2 b}=\frac{a^{4}}{a b+2 a c}+\frac{b^{4}}{b c+2 a b}+\frac{c^{4}}{a c+2 b c} \geqslant \\ \frac{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)^{2}}{a b+2 a c+b c+2 a b+a c+2 b c}= \\ \left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right) \cdot \frac{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}}{3(a b+b c+a c)} \end{array}

Given that a2+b2+c2ab+bc+aca^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geqslant a b+b c+a c, therefore
a3b+2c+b3c+2a+c3a+2ba2+b2+c23\frac{a^{3}}{b+2 c}+\frac{b^{3}}{c+2 a}+\frac{c^{3}}{a+2 b} \geqslant \frac{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}}{3}

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