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May 1, 2025
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Given triangle ABC. Outside the triangle, construct rectangles ACDE and BCFG with equal areas. Let M be the midpoint of DF. Prove that CM passes through the center of the circle circumscribing triangle ABC.
Let and
Hence,
But gets a maximal value when two numbers from are equal.
Thus, it remains to prove your inequality for and which is very easy.
By the way the following inequality is also true.
Let and are positive numbers such that Prove that:
Let and
Hence,
But gets a maximal value when two numbers from are equal.
Thus, it remains to prove your inequality for and which is very easy.
By the way the following inequality is also true.
Let and are positive numbers such that Prove that:
I think that you had using method UVW(a method terrible than mix variable )
arqady : Why don't you write a detailed article about and post it on mathlinks , so everyone can understand it's beauty.I see you using that method very often , so I think you are the right person to write an article ,or maybe you're saving it for using in any of your books ? The posted article by Mathias DK is not very clear to me
Thank you Arqady , to see if I understood I will try to solve the one you proposed.
Let and .
Substituting these , the inequality can be transformed as
But takes maximal value only when two of are equal .In that case and ,the other part is calculations.
Can we just observe the function (convex) ,and then to see when it takes minimal value ? Or maybe as a function of ,to see when it has minimum ?
Thank you Arqady , to see if I understood I will try to solve the one you proposed.
Let and .
Substituting these , the inequality can be transformed as
But takes maximal value only when two of are equal .In that case and ,the other part is calculations.
It's not true.
enndb0x wrote:
Can we just observe the function (convex) ,and then to see when it takes minimal value ? Or maybe as a function of ,to see when it has minimum ?
We can. But it does not give noting. While if we need to prove that it gives a case
By the way, if then, is linear function.
Hence, gets a minimal value when two numbers from are equal.
Johan Gunardi wrote:
arqady wrote:
But gets a maximal value when two numbers from are equal.
I don't understand this part. If we assume that two of are equal, wouldn't it affect the RHS too?
If first one occurs we are done and if the second one occurs then replace by ; by ; by and we get the same expression as the first one and thus are done again.
If first one occurs we are done and if the second one occurs then replace by ; by ; by and we get the same expression as the first one and thus are done again.
edit, it seems not true.
This post has been edited 1 time. Last edited by kuing, Aug 28, 2015, 6:38 PM Reason: Review of old posts, found this proof seems not true.
If first one occurs we are done and if the second one occurs then replace by ; by ; by and we get the same expression as the first one and thus are done again.
How does this complete the proof ? Doesn't this just show that given a triple , the inequality holds either for or for ?
Someone please explain this to me.