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by Total Gadha - Saturday, 5 July 2008, 04:21 AM
I have not written for a while for my CAT 2010 students, not because I didn't want to but because the explosive
growth of Totalgadha.com and TathaGat kept me busy in multidimensional roles. Gone a re the long eve ning
walks, leisurely problem-solving sessions and book r eadings. Now my time is spent in hurried classroom
sessions, editing worksheets, answering incess ant phone calls, and managing a rapidly-growing team. The
pleasures and pains of entrepreneurship are numer ous. Not that I am complaining. It feels good to see that an
idea which was once a passing thought has blossomed into something real. It is heartening to see that you can
do a lot of good in this world. TG.com was once a thought. Now it is a re ality. It would give rise to more re alities.
Tomorrow, there would be something better than TG.com. There would be better thoughts. And in the end, it
would be the students who would benefit the most by the new realities. It is reason enough to rejoice, pain of
entrepreneurship notwithstanding.
One more CAT is approaching fast. There is alre ady a tightening in my stomach, a lump in my throat. If I could
have my wish, I would want all my students and TGites to clear C AT. But this is not possible, and in the end, life
wouldnâ€™t be interesting without a good mix of victories and defeats. No matter what happens on the D-day, I
hope that the students donâ€™t stop learning at least. Amen! So here is it ladies and gentlemen, a fruit of painful labour.
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I shall have to end here and leave the rest of it for my CBT Club students. I shall cover some problems based on this in
the CBT Club this week.
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by Amit A - Saturday, 5 July 2008, 12:53 PM
Hello Sir ,
Thanks a lot for yet another enlightining article. I just wanted to drive your attention to one minor mistake in one of the examples
listed in this article. The First illustration in the section (Completing the Square) , the equation x 2 - 10x
- 6 =0 should be having minimum value a s -31 (and not -25).
Please let me know if I m wrong.

And please keep posting such informative articles because your forum is the only one I (and many others) trust most.
Regards
Amit.
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by y v - Saturday, 5 July 2008, 03:35 PM
TG sir...You have forgotten to add -6..So the answer is -31 as Amit has pointed out...
Article was very use ful sir...
Please post an a rticle on time and work
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by ATOM ANT - Saturday, 5 July 2008, 03:51 PM
TG sir,
I have few doubts.
1.Can you give me a n exa mple of a pa rabola that touches only x-axis?
2.You have given three different curves for the quadratic equation with a>0 and a<0... what is the form of equation where the curve do not
touch x -axis...
is it like y = x2 + k..
3.Are parabolas neccessarily symmetrical ?
and I would like to a dd a po int to your lesson.

For any quadratic equation of the form a x 2 + bx + c = 0
for every single change of sign there is a positive root.
eg: x 2 + 5x + 6 = 0 roo ts = -2,-3
x 2 -5x - 6 = 0 roots = -1,6
x 2 -5x + 6 = 0 roots = 2,3
Thanks a lot for the lesson.. Btw where shou ld I po st my do ubts on que stions from Co pycat-1... Unfortunately my previous po st was de leted.
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by tinu doshi - Saturday, 5 July 2008, 08:56 PM
hello sir,
ex cellence is the word fo r u!!!!!!!!!!!
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by amit kumar - Sunday, 6 July 2008, 07:12 PM
hi tg sir,
very nice article.kee p posting these as they are really usefull
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by Rajakannan R - Tuesda y, 8 July 2008, 12:06 PM
Hello sir,
For the problem (x^2-x+1)/(x^2+x+1)=y
Its value is negative when 1/3<=y<=3. since a>0 its minimum value has to be (1/3 +3)/2 = 5/3. How is it 1/3 and how to find the maximum
value
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by Total Gadha - Tuesda y, 8 July 2008, 03:56 PM
Hi Raj,
y is not a quadratic expression, it is a rational expression in quadratic. How are you applying the rule?
Total Gadha
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by ankit sharma - Tuesda y, 8 July 2008, 09:17 PM
that is an am azing picture of som e m usician.i like it.

and no second thoughts about the article . it rocks a s usual
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by ATOM ANT - Wedne sday, 9 July 2008, 07:20 AM
Sir,
Clarify my doubts pls.
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by Total Gadha - Wedn esday, 9 July 2008, 09:14 AM
Hi Atom,
1. x 2 - 4x + 4 = 0, 6x - 9 - x 2 = 0, etc.
2. x 2 - x + 4 = 0.
3. Yes.
I think I ha ve covered the change of sign thing in the chapter. Check.
As for your copycat- 1 doubts, se nd me a m ail.
Total Gadha
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by ATOM ANT - Thursday, 10 July 2008, 04:44 PM
Thank u sir.. Will send my doubts tonight.

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by naga kiran kosuru - Friday, 11 July 2008, 08:24 PM
Hi TG,
In the reply posted to ATOM, ho w x^2 - x + 4 touch x-ax is only once?
i think it shd have two roots... pl comment....
And, how a quadratic eqn with imaginary roots is plotted on a graph..(if possible)....
Tnx in advance..
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by abhi raj - Friday, 11 July 2008, 09:02 PM
hi naga,
x 2-4x+4 touch x-ax is only once as it has o nly one root i.e 2 or u can sa y that both the roots are sa me so it will touch the x-axis only once.
And as far as equation x 2-x+4 is concerned it doe s not have any solution or it has imagina ry roots which is ans to ur que s .
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by Gul Gul - Friday, 11 July 2008, 09:15 PM
Lovely...!
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by Rahul Aggarwal - Thursday, 17 July 2008, 05:28 PM
Thanx sir for a beautiful article yet again...
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by Hungry Gadha! - Monday, 21 July 2008, 02:23 PM
Hi TG
How are you doing?
As usual TG rocks with his QA lessons, no question about it. So nothing to say about it.
Yeapâ €¦Iâ€™m very much elated to sha re the sam e k inda fee ling whatever you have sa id on â €˜entrepreneurshipâ€™. Running own firm and
giving hope & life to few peopleâ€¦wow, what a fee lingâ€¦just thatâ€™s gonna be one o f the greatest mom ents of a life. Yeapâ€¦I love to feel
thatâ€¦thatâ€™s the sole reason why Iâ€™m ge tting into MBAâ€¦otherwise no m ean for me do ing mbaâ€¦ yeap sirâ€¦in future, you will see
meâ€¦your Hungry handling small businessâ€¦for sure! After all thatâ€™s my ultimate goal of a lifeâ€¦ Absolutely TGâ€¦of course, Iâ€™ll take
loads of Gyan from you o n that front too...
Great words inspires meâ€¦thanks a lot for them TG.
Take care
Regards,
HG
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by anuj hembrom - Wedne sday, 23 July 2008, 01:56 PM
hi sir,
thnx for the valuable article, as you have covered alm ost everything
but an article on functions is despe rately missing, as regard to its importance in exa ms like CAT & XAT hope you'll consider it.
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by Jegathiesh P - Thursday, 24 July 2008, 02:52 AM
Hi Sir,
In the illustration of finding the ma ximun value of the ex pression 1+2x-3x^2, the max imun value of the expression f(x) is 4/3 and it occus at
x= -1/3 and x=1 and not at x=1/3 (what specified in the article). Correct me if I am wrong.
Regards,
Jegathiesh.P
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by Total Gadha - Friday, 25 July 2008, 07:35 PM
Hi Jegathiesh,
you are talking about the roots. I am talking about the max imum value.
Total Gadha
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by Anamica Sinha - Sunday, 10 August 2008, 11:59 PM
thanks.... this is really helpful...

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by Shiladitya Mukherjee - Thursday, 30 July 2009, 10:28 AM
Hi TG Sir,
I've a sm all doubt regarding the last problem -
For b2 - 4ac >= 0 we can already conclude that (y-1/3) ( y-3) <=0 , then why are we going for the next statement?
regards,
Shiladitya
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by aashish biala - Tuesda y, 18 August 2009, 06:01 PM
hi,
thanks a ton for such a nice post. you are doing a great job. you cannot imma gine how good i am feeling from within. Com menda ble is the
word for you r effort TG.
cheers!!!
aashish biala
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by aashish biala - Tuesda y, 18 August 2009, 06:04 PM
hi Shiladitya,
here in this question y= x^2-x+1/x^2+x+1. So, the range of y is a ctually the range of that expression whose minimum and m aximum value is
being asked which is 1/3 and 3 respectively. Hope it is now clear.
aashish biala
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by Dev Raj - Thursday, 20 May 2010, 07:02 PM
TG sir,
The se are probably the mo st written words around he re but i shall still pen it down...
Your article instills much nee ded confidence in m e....
Thank u sir....
Also sir,
agar kuch ques tions mil jaayein linear, quadratic and spe cial equa tions par to ma za hi aa jaye sir..........
Regards,
De v
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by nick dep p - Saturday, 5 Novembe r 2011, 03:47 PM
The perimeter of a recta ngle is 80m and it,s area is 400m^2.Find its legnth & breadth ?
please provide me the solution of this quadratic Equation.
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by suraj saxe na - Saturday, 5 November 2011, 06:09 P M
VERY SIMLPE
2(L+B)=80
L+B=40
L*B=400
X^2 -40X+400=0
(X-20)^2=0
L=B=20
HAVE FUN!
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by sharmil kothari - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 01:38 AM
i think its an rectangle so both the sides are not equal

so ans is 16*25=400
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by manik bhardwaj - Wedne sday, 2 May 2012, 07:09 PM
Hi All,
I have one more doub t in quadratic equation as:
Find the remainder when 3x^5+2x^4-3x^3-x^2+2x+2 is divided by x^2-1
As x^2-1 can be resolved into (x-1) and (x+1) and then we can input the value at f(x) for 1 and -1, but still im not able to get answer correctly.
request yours help
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by TG Team - Thursday, 3 May 2012, 11:49 AM
Hi Manik
3x5 + 2x4 - 3x³ - x² + 2x + 2 ≡ 3x(x²)² + 2(x²)² - 3x(x²) - x² + 2x + 2 ≡ {3x(1)² + 2(1)² - 3x(1) - (1) + 2x + 2} mod(x²
- 1) ≡ {3x + 2 - 3x - 1 + 2x + 2} mod(x² - 1) ≡ { 2x + 3} mod(x² - 1).
Kamal Lohia
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by Dips Belldcat - Sunday, 29 July 2012, 08:00 PM
Hi Kamal/TG,
Can you please help to unde rstand & solve the following problem:
If both the roots of the quadratic equation: ax2+bx+c=0 lie in the interval (0,3), then where does 'a' lie?
I am not able to unde rstand the problem completely;so your explana tion on how to reach the solution will be helpful.
Regards.
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by saurav garg - Saturday, 13 October 2012, 01:37 AM
dada .............u r aweso me tausom e!!!!!!!!1help 2012 cat aspirants tooo ooo o plzzzz zz!!!!!!!whatts the pattern this time if u have com e know
from some where plzzzzz tell and i have sme seriosu problems in this quad :/
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I have few doubts.

3.Are parabolas neccessarily symmetrical ?

and I would like to a dd a po int to your lesson.

for every single change of sign there is a positive root.

eg: x 2 + 5x + 6 = 0 roo ts = -2,-3

x 2 -5x - 6 = 0 roots = -1,6

x 2 -5x + 6 = 0 roots = 2,3

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very nice article.kee p posting these as they are really usefull

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For the problem (x^2-x+1)/(x^2+x+1)=y

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that is an am azing picture of som e m usician.i like it.

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I think I ha ve covered the change of sign thing in the chapter. Check.

As for your copycat- 1 doubts, se nd me a m ail.

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Thank u sir.. Will send my doubts tonight.

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In the reply posted to ATOM, ho w x^2 - x + 4 touch x-ax is only once?

i think it shd have two roots... pl comment....

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Thanx sir for a beautiful article yet again...

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loads of Gyan from you o n that front too...

Great words inspires meâ€¦thanks a lot for them TG.

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I've a sm all doubt regarding the last problem -

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