Inverse Inequality!

Geometry Level 4

P = 2 arctan ( A 2 ) + arctan ( B ) + arctan ( C ) \large P = 2 \arctan \left( \dfrac{A}{2}\right) + \arctan(B) + \arctan (C)

Given that A , B , C A, B, C are positive reals such that A + B + C = 4 A+B+C = 4 .

Submit your answer as 10000 max ( P ) \lfloor 10000 \max(P) \rfloor .

Notation : \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .


The answer is 31415.

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2 solutions

Manuel Kahayon
Jul 10, 2016

We know that the tangent function is convex for all tan θ 0 \tan \theta \geq 0 .

Therefore, its inverse function is concave, i.e. arctan ( x ) \arctan (x) is concave for all positive x x .

By Jensen's Inequality,

arctan ( A + B + C 4 ) 1 2 arctan ( A 2 ) + arctan ( B ) 4 + arctan ( C ) 4 \large \arctan (\frac{A+B+C}{4}) \geq \frac{1}{2} \arctan (\frac{A}{2}) + \frac{\arctan (B)}{4} + \frac{\arctan (C)}{4}

Multiplying both sides by 4 4 gives us

4 arctan ( A + B + C 4 ) 2 arctan ( A 2 ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C ) 4 \arctan (\frac{A+B+C}{4}) \geq 2 \arctan (\frac{A}{2}) + \arctan (B) + arctan (C)

Substituting A + B + C = 4 A+B+C = 4 gives us

4 arctan ( 1 ) 2 arctan ( A 2 ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C ) 4 \arctan (1) \geq 2 \arctan (\frac{A}{2}) + \arctan (B) + arctan (C)

4 π 4 = π 2 arctan ( A 2 ) + arctan ( B ) + a r c t a n ( C ) 4 \frac{\pi}{4} = \pi \geq 2 \arctan (\frac{A}{2}) + \arctan (B) + arctan (C)

So, the maximum value of P P is π \pi . Therefore, our answer is 10000 π = 31415 \lfloor 10000 \pi \rfloor = \boxed {31415} .

The answer you provided is the floor of 10,000 π \pi not 1000 π \pi .

Hosam Hajjir - 4 years, 11 months ago

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Sorry! I didn't notice earlier. Thanks a lot! I have corrected the question.

Manuel Kahayon - 4 years, 11 months ago
Atomsky Jahid
Jul 11, 2016

What I did was mostly due to intuition. You can write P = a r c t a n A 2 + a r c t a n A 2 + a r c t a n B + a r c t a n C P=arctan \frac{A}{2}+arctan \frac{A}{2}+arctan B+arctan C You can see A/2, B & C have equal weight. And, A / 2 + A / 2 + B + C = 4 A/2+A/2+B+C=4 Here, we can distribute 4 to these 4 terms which leads to A = 2 A=2 and B = C = 1 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 max P=4 \times arctan 1= π

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