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Algebra Difficulty 6.2 National olympiad Prove it

Let a,ba, b and cc be positive real numbers that satisfy a+b+cabca+b+c \geq a b c. Prove that

a2+b2+c23abc a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq \sqrt{3} a b c

Solution

We know that a2+b2+c2ab+bc+caa^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq a b+b c+c a and thus 3(a2+b2+c2)(a+b+c)23\left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right) \geq(a+b+c)^{2}. Due to the inequality of the geometric and arithmetic mean, we have a+b+c3(abc)13a+b+c \geq 3(a b c)^{\frac{1}{3}} and on the other hand, it is given that a+b+cabca+b+c \geq a b c. Therefore, we have two inequalities:

a2+b2+c213(a+b+c)23(abc)23a2+b2+c213(a+b+c)213(abc)2 \begin{aligned} & a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq \frac{1}{3}(a+b+c)^{2} \geq 3(a b c)^{\frac{2}{3}} \\ & a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq \frac{1}{3}(a+b+c)^{2} \geq \frac{1}{3}(a b c)^{2} \end{aligned}

We raise the first inequality to the power of 34\frac{3}{4} and the second to the power of 14\frac{1}{4} (and we are allowed to do this because everything is positive):

(a2+b2+c2)34334(abc)12(a2+b2+c2)14314(abc)12 \begin{aligned} & \left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)^{\frac{3}{4}} \geq 3^{\frac{3}{4}}(a b c)^{\frac{1}{2}} \\ & \left(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}\right)^{\frac{1}{4}} \geq 3^{-\frac{1}{4}}(a b c)^{\frac{1}{2}} \end{aligned}

Now we multiply these two and then we get

a2+b2+c2312(abc) a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2} \geq 3^{\frac{1}{2}}(a b c)

which is what we wanted.

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