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(1)
Unit square cut into m quadrilaterals inequality
Source: Baltic Way 2009
11/27/2010
A unit square is cut into
m
m
m
quadrilaterals
Q
1
,
…
,
Q
m
Q_1,\ldots ,Q_m
Q
1
,
…
,
Q
m
. For each
i
=
1
,
…
,
m
i=1,\ldots ,m
i
=
1
,
…
,
m
let
S
i
S_i
S
i
be the sum of the squares of the four sides of
Q
i
Q_i
Q
i
. Prove that
S
1
+
…
+
S
m
≥
4
S_1+\ldots +S_m\ge 4
S
1
+
…
+
S
m
≥
4
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