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Algebra Difficulty 7.0 National olympiad, round 2 Prove it

Example 8.3.5. Let a,b,ca, b, c be positive real numbers. Prove that
(2a+b+c)24a3+(b+c)3+(2b+c+a)24b3+(c+a)3+(2c+a+b)24c3+(a+b)312a+b+c. \frac{(2 a+b+c)^{2}}{4 a^{3}+(b+c)^{3}}+\frac{(2 b+c+a)^{2}}{4 b^{3}+(c+a)^{3}}+\frac{(2 c+a+b)^{2}}{4 c^{3}+(a+b)^{3}} \leq \frac{12}{a+b+c} .
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Solution

Solution. Suppose that a+b+c=3a+b+c=3. The problem becomes
cyc(3+a)24a3+(3a)34\sum_{c y c} \frac{(3+a)^{2}}{4 a^{3}+(3-a)^{3}} \leq 4

Notice that
(3+a)24a3+(3a)343=(a1)(4a215a+27)4a3+(3a)3=(a1)(23+(a1)(2a212a9)4a3+(3a)3)2(a1)3.\begin{aligned} & \frac{(3+a)^{2}}{4 a^{3}+(3-a)^{3}}-\frac{4}{3}=\frac{(a-1)\left(-4 a^{2}-15 a+27\right)}{4 a^{3}+(3-a)^{3}} \\ = & (a-1)\left(\frac{2}{3}+\frac{(a-1)\left(-2 a^{2}-12 a-9\right)}{4 a^{3}+(3-a)^{3}}\right) \leq \frac{2(a-1)}{3} . \end{aligned}

We conclude that
cyc(3+a)24a3+(3a)3cyc(43+2(a1)3)=4\sum_{c y c} \frac{(3+a)^{2}}{4 a^{3}+(3-a)^{3}} \leq \sum_{c y c}\left(\frac{4}{3}+\frac{2(a-1)}{3}\right)=4
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Example 8.3.6. Let a,b,c,da, b, c, d be non-negative real numbers. Prove that
ab2+c2+d2+bc2+d2+a2+cd2+a2+b2+da2+b2+c23321a2+b2+c2+d2\frac{a}{b^{2}+c^{2}+d^{2}}+\frac{b}{c^{2}+d^{2}+a^{2}}+\frac{c}{d^{2}+a^{2}+b^{2}}+\frac{d}{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}} \geq \frac{3 \sqrt{3}}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+d^{2}}}

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