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Using Vieta's Formula, this states:
(Let
and
be the roots)
This shows that p and q must be the factors of :
and its negative counterpart.
We cancel out the
and
because the problem states that it wants distinct roots.
Thus, we have a total of
pairs and another
pairs (the negatives), which total us
.
$\boxed{\textbf{(B) }8$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg).