1951 AHSME Problems/Problem 47
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If and are the roots of the equation , the value of is:
Solution 1
Note that .
By Vieta's, this is
Solution 2
and can be found in terms of , , and by using the quadratic formula; the roots are
By Vieta's Formula, and . Now let's algebraically manipulate what we want to find:
Plugging in the values for and gives
Solution 3
here and are the roots of the equation ,
now we can convert this equation with roots and .
let, then above equation becomes
square on both sides we get
Again we can change this equation with roots and .
let then, then
then the sum of roots of the above equation is
hence,
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