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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ia Paper 1 7C ii Solution by
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Set and . The expression in the equation is . Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in toTheir dot product is , and . Thus the expression is nonnegative, and it is zero precisely when equality holds in Cauchy-Schwarz. That requires . The fourth coordinate forces , and the other three coordinates then giveSubstitution gives , so this unique possible choice really is a solution.
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