P = 2 arctan ( 2 A ) + arctan ( B ) + arctan ( C )
Given that A , B , C are positive reals such that A + B + C = 4 .
Submit your answer as ⌊ 1 0 0 0 0 max ( P ) ⌋ .
Notation : ⌊ ⋅ ⌋ denotes the floor function .
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The answer you provided is the floor of 10,000 π not 1000 π .
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Sorry! I didn't notice earlier. Thanks a lot! I have corrected the question.
What I did was mostly due to intuition. You can write P = a r c t a n 2 A + a r c t a n 2 A + a r c t a n B + a r c t a n C You can see A/2, B & C have equal weight. And, A / 2 + A / 2 + B + C = 4 Here, we can distribute 4 to these 4 terms which leads to A = 2 and B = C = 1 . These values corrrspond to the max value of P. [tan is an increasing function in the domain 0 to π/2.] So, m a x P = 4 × a r c t a n 1 = π
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We know that the tangent function is convex for all tan θ ≥ 0 .
Therefore, its inverse function is concave, i.e. arctan ( x ) is concave for all positive x .
By Jensen's Inequality,
arctan ( 4 A + B + C ) ≥ 2 1 arctan ( 2 A ) + 4 arctan ( B ) + 4 arctan ( C )
Multiplying both sides by 4 gives us
4 arctan ( 4 A + B + C ) ≥ 2 arctan ( 2 A ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C )
Substituting A + B + C = 4 gives us
4 arctan ( 1 ) ≥ 2 arctan ( 2 A ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C )
4 4 π = π ≥ 2 arctan ( 2 A ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C )
So, the maximum value of P is π . Therefore, our answer is ⌊ 1 0 0 0 0 π ⌋ = 3 1 4 1 5 .