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Problem 3

Prove that the sum of the distances of the vertices of a regular tetrahedron from the center of its circumscribed sphere is less than the sum of the distances of these vertices from any other point in space.
Step 4 of 6: Add the four distance inequalities
In plain words

One perpendicular-bisector plane already rules out every point outside it as a possible minimizer.

PA+PB+PC+PD≥P′A+P′B+P′C+P′DPA+PB+PC+PD \ge P'A+P'B+P'C+P'D
Detailed analysis

Summing the inequalities from steps 2 and 3 shows that replacing PP by its projection P′P' onto Π\Pi never increases the total distance to the four vertices, with equality iff P∈ΠP\in\Pi.