Amit and Alok attempted to solve a quadratic equation. Amit made a mistake in writing down the constant term and ended up with roots . Alok made a mistake in writing down coefficient of to get roots . The correct roots of the equation are:
Amit and Alok attempted to solve a quadratic equation. Amit made a mistake in writing down the constant term and ended up with roots . Alok made a mistake in writing down coefficient of to get roots . The correct roots of the equation are:
Solution
For equation:
Sum of roots
Product of roots
Let's assume the equation here to be , we need not worry ourself with the value of as it doesn't matter here!
Amit got the constant term wrong, but he has gotten the coefficient of right.
So from his equation, we can derive
Similarly, Alok has gotten the coefficient of wrong, but he has gotten the constant term right.
So from his equation, we can derive
Now we know sum of roots is and product of roots is .
We can go through the options to see what matches these (add both the numbers for sum of roots; multiply both the numbers for product).
Roots as per Option 2:
Sum
Product
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