XAT Quadratic Questions are one of the most important topics for the upcoming exam. Questions from Arithmetic, Algebra keep appearing every year and were asked consistently across the years. To check similar important topics, checking with the XAT syllabus will help you understand better and plan your preparation accordingly.
Along with this, we recommend you to solve questions from XAT previous papers. This will help you in knowing the question types and various type of questions being asked in the actual exam. We've compiled all the questions with detailed solutions from previous exams to help you with your preparation. You could download them as PDF and solve them as per your convenience.
The roots of the polynomial $$P(x) = 2x^3 - 11x^2 + 17x - 6$$ are the radii of three concentric circles.
The ratio of their area, when arranged from the largest to the smallest, is:
correct answer:-4
Some members of a social service organization in Kolkata decide to prepare 2400 laddoos to gift to children in various orphanages and slums in the city, during Durga puja. The plan is that each of them makes the same number of laddoos. However, on the laddoo-making day, ten members are absent, thus each remaining member makes 12 laddoos more than earlier decided.
How many members actually make the laddoos?
correct answer:-5
The sum of the cubes of two numbers is 128, while the sum of the reciprocals of their cubes is 2.
What is the product of the squares of the numbers?
correct answer:-3
Let $$f(x) = \frac{x^2 + 1}{x^2 - 1}$$ if $$x \neq 1, -1,$$ and 1 if x = 1, -1. Let $$g(x) = \frac{x + 1}{x - 1}$$ if $$x \neq 1,$$ and 3 if x = 1.
What is the minimum possible values of $$\frac{f(x)}{g(x)}$$ ?
correct answer:-4
Given that a and b are integers and that $$5x+2\sqrt{7}$$ is a root of the polynomial $$x^2 - ax + b + 2\sqrt{7}$$ in $$x$$, what is the value of b?
correct answer:-1
If $$x^2 + x + 1 = 0$$, then $$x^{2018} + x^{2019}$$ equals which of the following:
correct answer:-3
Two different quadratic equations have a common root. Let the three unique roots of the two equations be A, B and C - all of them are positive integers. If (A + B + C) = 41 and the product of the roots of one of the equations is 35, which of the following options is definitely correct?
correct answer:-3
A polynomial y=$$ax^{3} + bx^{2 }+ cx + d$$ intersects x-axis at 1 and -1, and y-axis at 2. The value of b is:
correct answer:-1
Consider a function $$f(x) = x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1$$, where x is a positive integer greater than 1. What will be the remainder if $$f(x^5)$$ is divided by f(x)?
correct answer:-1