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Algebra Difficulty 6.1 National olympiad Prove it

19 Let a,b,ca, b, c be positive real numbers, satisfying a2+b2+c2=1a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}=1. Prove:
abc+bca+cab3.\frac{a b}{c}+\frac{b c}{a}+\frac{c a}{b} \geqslant \sqrt{3} .

Solution

 19. Since (abc+bca+cab)2=a2b2c2+b2c2a2+c2a2b2+2(a2+b2+c2)=12(a2b2c2+c2a2b2)+12(b2c2a2+a2b2c2)+12(c2a2b2+b2c2a2)+2a2+b2+c2+2=\begin{array}{l} \text { 19. Since }\left(\frac{a b}{c}+\frac{b c}{a}+\frac{c a}{b}\right)^{2}=\frac{a^{2} b^{2}}{c^{2}}+\frac{b^{2} c^{2}}{a^{2}}+\frac{c^{2} a^{2}}{b^{2}}+2\left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)= \\ \frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{a^{2} b^{2}}{c^{2}}+\frac{c^{2} a^{2}}{b^{2}}\right)+\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{b^{2} c^{2}}{a^{2}}+\frac{a^{2} b^{2}}{c^{2}}\right)+\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{c^{2} a^{2}}{b^{2}}+\frac{b^{2} c^{2}}{a^{2}}\right)+2 \geqslant a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+2= \end{array}
3. Therefore, the proposition holds.

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