1965 AHSME Problems/Problem 7
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Using Vieta's formulas, we can write the sum of the roots of any quadratic equation in the form 
as 
, and the product as 
.
If 
and 
are the roots, then the sum of the reciprocals of the roots is 
.
Applying the formulas, we get 
, or 
=> $\box{a}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg).
