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Forum Name: High school
Topic ID: 361
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: A Geometry Inequality
Posted by alexb on Mar-20-07 at 07:46 PM
In response to message #0
What you have to do is to consider the barycentric coordinates of the point of concurrency of the three lines and how in terms of those coordinates they lines split the opposite sides of ΔABC:

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/Barycentric.shtml

The inequality to prove becomes entirely algebraic. Can you do that?