A quadratic question

Algebra Level 3

Find the number of quadratic equations which are unchanged by squaring their roots.

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2 solutions

Krishna Sharma
Nov 17, 2014

There are 4 possibilities where squaring the roots does not change the quadratic

( 0 , 0 (0,0 )

( 0 , 1 (0,1 )

( 1 , 1 (1,1 )

( ω , ω 2 (\omega, \omega^{2} )

Where ω , ω 2 \omega , \omega^{2} are imaginary cube roots of unity.

Extras

Imaginary cube roots of unity are reciprocal , square , conjugate of each other.

Oh!! Neglected imaginary roots!! :(

Pranjal Jain - 6 years, 6 months ago

I should have considered imaginary roots as well considering you never specified what type of roots they had to be. A very good question; it's tricky because many people exclude imaginary roots.

tytan le nguyen - 6 years, 6 months ago

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I think problem would be pointless if I had specified about roots.(If nothing given you have to think every possibility. )

Krishna Sharma - 6 years, 6 months ago

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Very fair point.

tytan le nguyen - 6 years, 6 months ago

Like w and w^2 does any such number (real or imaginary)exits having same property.?

Anurag Pandey - 4 years, 10 months ago
Aksshat Khanna
Mar 19, 2017

read the next solution

Don’t give these type of solutions

Manoj Gupta - 2 years, 4 months ago

Did not understand imaginary cube roots

Ballaleshwar Tela - 2 months, 1 week ago

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