a 3 + 1 1 + b 3 + 1 1 + c 3 + 1 1 .
Positive reals a , b , c satisfy a 1 + b 1 + c 1 = 3 .
If the maximum value of the above expression is in the form y x , where x and y are integers with y square-free, find x + y .
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Uhmmm, I'm just starting to learn Jensen's inequality, so, can I ask how you have come to think that the function must be f ( x ) = x 3 + 1 x 3 ...?
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I first thought of the function f ( x ) = x 3 + 1 1 , but i realised I wanted f ( x 1 ) = x 3 + 1 1 , Since we would be using a 1 + b 1 + c 1 on the RHS. So I replaced x by x 1 and got the required function.
Very nice solution! =D =D
By AM-GM, we can obtain the values of a , b , and c which are a = b = c = 1 . Using those values, y x = 2 3 and x + y = 5 .
Feel free to fix my solutions as it is slightly incomplete :)
Wrong. you can't get a=b=c=1 by AMGM.
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Let,
f ( x ) = ( x 3 + 1 x 3 ) , x ≥ 0
It can be proved that f ( x ) is concave for x ≥ 0 According to Jensen's inequality,
f ( a 1 ) + f ( b 1 ) + f ( c 1 ) ≤ 3 f ⎝ ⎜ ⎛ 3 a 1 + b 1 + c 1 ⎠ ⎟ ⎞
∴ c y c l i c ∑ a 3 + 1 1 ≤ 3 f ( 1 )
∴ c y c l i c ∑ a 3 + 1 1 ≤ 2 3
x + y = 2 + 3 = 5