Find the triangles with angles A,B,C and correspondingly opposite sides a,b.c such that aA+bB+cCa+b+c has a minimum. Does this expression have a maximum?

2 Answers
Nov 10, 2017

The minimum would be zero. The maximum is infinity.

Explanation:

As given in the problem, the sides could shrink to a point, regardless of the angles. Similarly, there is no bound on the length of any of the sides.
For example, an equilateral triangle could be expanded infinitely. The ratio would continue to increase.

Nov 10, 2017

See below.

Explanation:

Considering the Chevishef's inequality

(1nnk=1xk)(1nnj=1yj)1nnk=1xkyk

for

0<x1x2xn
0<y1y2yn

we can arrange

abc and correspondingly
ABC

so we have

13(a+b+c)(A+B+C)(aA+bB+cC)

and then

aA+bB+cCa+b+c13(a+b+c)(A+B+C)a+b+c=13(A+B+C)=π3

The maximum determination (not attainable) is left as an exercise.