Problem

Source: Tournament of Towns, Junior A-Level , Fall 2019 p2

Tags: geometry, geometric inequality, area of a triangle, triangle inequality, inequalities



Two acute triangles $ABC$ and $A_1B_1C_1$ are such that $B_1$ and $C_1$ lie on $BC$, and $A_1$ lies inside the triangle $ABC$. Let $S$ and $S_1$ be the areas of those triangles respectively. Prove that $\frac{S}{AB + AC}> \frac{S_1}{A_1B_1 + A_1C_1}$ (Nairi Sedrakyan, Ilya Bogdanov)