{"id":18142,"date":"2026-05-02T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/symmetric-expression-in-two-roots-12\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:21:23","slug":"symmetric-expression-in-two-roots-12","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/symmetric-expression-in-two-roots-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Symmetric Expression In Two Roots 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If \u03b1+\u03b2=-5 and \u03b1\u03b2=9, find 1\/\u03b1 + 1\/\u03b2.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>-1\/2<\/li>\n<li>-9\/5<\/li>\n<li>-5\/9<\/li>\n<li>4\/9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-18142","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","subject-mathematics","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"When a question gives \u03b1+\u03b2 and \u03b1\u03b2, try to rewrite the required expression using only these two quantities. For reciprocals, use 1\/\u03b1 + 1\/\u03b2 = (\u03b1+\u03b2)\/(\u03b1\u03b2), because the common denominator is \u03b1\u03b2. Here, 1\/\u03b1+1\/\u03b2=(\u03b1+\u03b2)\/(\u03b1\u03b2). Therefore the value is -5\/9=-5\/9. Notice that this method avoids finding \u03b1 and \u03b2 separately.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"-1\/2"},{"right":"no","answer":"-9\/5"},{"right":"yes","answer":"-5\/9"},{"right":"no","answer":"4\/9"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/18142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18142"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}