Ratio of sums vs sum of ratio

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Is anyone aware of any general (or perhaps not so general) relationship (inequality for instance) relating

$A(x,y)= \frac{\sum_z f(x,y,z)}{\sum_z g(y,z)}$

and

$B(x,y)= \sum_z\left(\frac{f(x,y,z)}{g(y,z)}\right)$

?

Specific context (for what I'm dealing with, but not necessarily the question) is that $\sum_{x,y,x}f(x,y,z)=1$ and $\sum_{y,x}g(y,z)=1$ and $f(x,y,z)\geq 0$ and $g(y,z)\geq 0\quad \forall x,y,z$. I.e. probabilities (or more generally, I guess, measures).

It seems like it could 'vaguely' be related to log sum inequalities (when transformed) or Jensen's inequality perhaps?

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One example would be Jensen's inequality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%27s_inequality