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Part of 2006 Czech-Polish-Slovak Match

Problems(1)

Four real numbers with specified sum and sum of squares

Source: Czech-Polish-Slovak 2006 Q3

The sum of four real numbers is

9

and the sum of their squares is

21

. Prove that these numbers can be denoted by

a, b, c, d

ab-cd \ge 2

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