Thursday, September 16, 2010

Inequalities

This is One Of my Favourites And this is from IMO 1991.

Let I be in the incentre of any triangle ABC then you have to prove that

IA/AD.IB/BE.IC/CF > 1/4.

Get your Proofs Ready.

16 comments:

  1. nice one!!!! will hv a solution by tomorrow!

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  2. aren't you supposed to tell what D E anf F are?

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  3. Hey This was Just easy to guess.. ends of angle bisectors of A,B and C respectively.. hope it is much clear now .. !!

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  4. we can find the ratios very easily as (y+z))/(x+y+z) ,(x+z)/(x+y+z) , (x+y)/(x+y+z) respectively where x,y,z are opposite sides to A,B and C respectively
    after that showing 2(x+y)(y+z)(x+z)>(x+y+z)^3 is quite easy
    assume x+y=a, y+z=b, x+z=c
    so 16abc> (a+b+c)^3 is all we have to prove
    (a+b+c) >= 3 cube root(abc)
    (a+b+c)^3>= 27 abc
    this gives me a feel of something wrong happening here
    equality holds when all are equal,a=b=c
    i.e it should be (x+y+z)^3 >=27/8 (x+y)(y+z)(z+x)
    we can check this also, let the triangle be equilateral, each ratio is 2/3, resultant is 8/27, question wrong , hence proved

    I might be wrong, but i strongly feel i m not , please point out the mistake in the othercase :D

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  5. @Akash Bhaiya:

    You Thought it in the right direction bhaiya.. you are missing somewhere yaar.. actually the thing you proved is the first part of the problem and i posted the second part.. well you used the right concept.. :D

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  6. well check the question then
    IA IB IC/ AD BE CF is surely less than equal to 8/27 if A,B,C are vertices, and I is incenter.

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  7. I will give you a hint : Do something with the inradius it might help.

    Well ek badiya tarika proof ka hai.. ye dekh lo !! it might be a fluke bt pata nahi..

    take the triangle as a equilateral one.. then the thing will be 1.. that is greater than 1/2 and if the triangle is not an equilateral then we need a lill' bit adjustments.. which are not smaller than zero.. thats why for all triangles the inequality is true..

    May be but you said that it is for the check but i think why cant we prove things with this help :D

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  8. can u please tell me how will the thing be 1 for equilateral triangle?

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  9. check the figure! is it right?
    http://www.imaginationcubed.com/loader.php?aDrawingID=ef229029b2cdd071f8fc1190569d7ead&from_email=akashrupela%40ymail.com&from_name=akash+rupela

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  10. Nah Yaar.. not 1.. galat ho gaya.. yaar.. arey yaar.. bt i was explaining something with an xample.. i wasnt having a pen or a paper.. sorry !!!

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  11. Well yaar.. this might help..

    We know the inequality
    (a+b-c)(a+c-b)(b+c-a)>0 .... (1)
    where a,b,c are sides of triangle.
    Now We should introduce elementary symmetric functions

    u= a+b+c, v=ab+bc+ca w= abc... (2)

    putting (2) in (1)

    we will get something like

    -u^3+4uv-8w >0...(3)
    on the other hand
    1/4 < f(a,b,c)...(4)
    gives
    -u^3+4uv-4w >0....(5)

    (3) is obviously correct. so the other two are also correct.

    So set a = y+z, b=z+x, c= x+y
    with r=x/x+y+z, s=y/x+y+z t=z/x+y+z

    AI/AD=1/2 (1+r)similarly we will get the other ones..
    so f(a,b,c)= 1/8 (1+r)(1+s)(1+t)

    putting the inequality in (4) completes the proof..

    Correct me if wrong.. may be wrong on the symmetric functions side..

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  12. @ Akash bhaiya.. aapne first part prove kiya tha iss question ka bilkul correctly..

    and yea.. wo jo 1 aaya tha wo shayad galti se maine ratio galat le liya..

    wo 1 aa hi nahi sakta because numerator is smaller.. sorry !!

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  13. wow wow wow....devansh...u ve got a wrong queston!!!!!! the RHS of inequality is 1/4 not 1/2
    ...as akash said check it for equilateral triangle..its 8/27<1/2...

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  14. yehi tha question mein yaar.. wo toh maine ab padha.. :D lol !! ye kya ho gaya.. Sorry guys.

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  15. Ok.. yaar finally we are done with the question .. thanks all for replying.. :D

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