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Quadratic Equations

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251. By reduction of Re. 1 per kg in the price of sugar. Ritika can buy one kg sugar more for Rs. 56. Find the original price of sugar per kilograms.

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252. A piece of cloth costs Rs. 200. If the piece were 5 m longer and each metre of cloth costed Rs. 2 less, the cost of the piece would have remained unchanged. How long is the piece and what is its original rate per metre.

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Long Answer Type

253. Two very good friends ‘Fox’ and ‘Eagle’ lived at the top of a cliff of height 6 m whose base was at a distance of 10 m from a point A on the ground. The fox descends the cliff and went straight to the point A. The eagle flew vertically up to height x and then flew in a straight line to point A. The distance travelled by each being the same. Find the value of x.

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254. On a pillar 9 metres high is perched a peacock. From a distance of 27 metres, a beautiful snake is coming to its hole at the bottom of a pillar. Seeing a beautiful snake, the peacock flying in an oblique direction, pounces upon it. If their speeds are equal of what distance away the hole is the beautiful snake caught.

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Ans. 12 m.

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255. A motor boat whose speed is 18 km/h in still water takes 1 hour more to go 24 km upstream than to return downstream to the same spot. Find the speed of the stream.

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256. If the equation (1 + m²)x² + 2mcx + (c² – a²) = 0 has equal roots. Prove that c² = a² (1 + m²).

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257. If the roots of the equation (b – c)x² + (c - a)x + (a b) = 0 are equal then prove that 2b = a + c.

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258. Find the value of ‘p’ for which the given quadratic equation has equal roots.
5x² – 4x + 2 + p(4x² – 2x – 1) = 0.

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Long Answer Type

259.

Solve for 'x': $fraction numerator 1 over denominator left parenthesis straight x minus 1 right parenthesis space left parenthesis straight x minus 2 right parenthesis end fraction plus fraction numerator 1 over denominator left parenthesis straight x minus 2 right parenthesis left parenthesis straight x minus 3 right parenthesis end fraction plus fraction numerator 1 over denominator left parenthesis straight x minus 3 right parenthesis left parenthesis straight x minus 4 right parenthesis end fraction equals 1 over 6$

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Short Answer Type

260. For what value of p (4 – p)x² – (2p + 4)x + (8p + 1) = 0 is a perfect square.

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