CPP-2: Polynomials-2

1. Find maximum value of 2  4x  x2

2. What is the remainder when x  x1998  x1999  x 2000  x 2001  x 2002 is divided by x3  x.

3. If x2  2x  5 is a factor of x 4  px 2  q. Find p and q .

4. If three of the roots of x4  ax2  bx  c  0 are 1, 2 and 3. Find the value of a  c .

5. The product of two of the four roots of the biquadratic equation x4 18x3  kx2  200x 1984  0 is  32.
Determine the value of k

Find the greatest value of the expression p  x   1  x  1  x 1  2 x 

5 2
6.

7. If a and b are two numbers such that a 2  b2  7 and a3  b3  10 then prove that greatest value of a  b is 4

8. If C R and the negative of one of the solutions of x2  3x  c  0 is a solution of x2  3x  c  0 , then find the
solutions of x
2
 3x  c  0 .

9. If f  x  be a polynomial of degree 4 with leading coefficient 1 satisfies f 1  10 , f  2  20, f  3  30, then
find the value of f 12   f  8  .

1 1 1
10. If a  b  c  1, a  b  c  9 and
2 2 2
a3  b3  c3  1 then find the value of   .
a b c

It is given that x  y  z  1, y  z  x  1, z  x  y  1, find xyz .

2 2 2 2 2 2
11.

12. If x is an integer satisfying x2  6x  5  0 and x2  2 x  0 , then find the number of possible values of x .

13. Find the minimum value of the quadratic expression 3x2  2 x  5.

14. If the quadratic equations ax2  2cx  b  0 and ax2  2bx  c  0  b  c, b  0 have a common root, then
find the value of a  4b  4c.

15. Let p  x   ax2  bx  c and q  x   lx 2  mx  n, if p 1  q 1  0, p  2  q  2  1, p  3  q  3  4 then

find p  4  q  4

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16. Suppose f  x  is a polynomial of degree 5 and with leading coefficient 2009. Suppose further that
f 1  1, f  2  3, f 3  5, f  4  7, f 5  9. What is the value of f  6 ?

17. Find a polynomial p  x  of degree 4, which has x2  3x  2 as a factor and also given that
p  1  24, p  2  132 and p  0  2.

18. Find the condition that the zeroes of the polynomial f  x   x3  px2  qx  r. may be in arithmetic progression.

19.
2
 3

Find for what value of ‘a’ equation x  2 x  a  3a  3  0 has real roots

20. If p  x  is a polynomial in x and x23  23x17  18x16  24 x15  108 x14   x4  3x2  2 x  9 . p  x  for all
values of x, compute the sum of the coefficients of p  x.

21. If f  x  is a polynomial such that f  a  f  b   0 , then what is the number of zeroes lying between a and b?

22. A polynomial p  x   ax2  bx  c where a, b, c are same rational has 1  3 as one of the zeroes and also
p  2  2 . Find the value of a, b and c .

23. x 2
 x  2  is the GCD of expression  x  1  2 x 2  ax  2  and  x  2   3x 2  bx  1 . Then find the values of
a and b.

24. If two zeroes of the polynomial f  x   x4  6x3  26x2  138x  35 are 2  3 find other zeroes.

25. Find the remainder when x100 is divided by x2  3x  2 .

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 ANSWERS
1. 6 2. 3x 2  3x 3. p  6, q  25
4.  61 5. 86 6. 1
8. 0, 3 9. 19840 10. 1
11.  1/8 12. 3 13.  16/3
14. 0 15. 9 16. 241091
17. a = 2, b =  1, c = 1 18. 2 p 3  27r  9 pq
19. a 2 20. 18 21. 1
22. a  1, b  2, c  2 23. a = 5, b =  4
24. 7,  5 25. 2 100
 
 1 x  2  2100 

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