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What is the equation where roots are \((α + β)^2\) and \((α – β)^2\), if α and β are roots of \(x^2 + 3x + 4 = 0\) ?

700-Level question!!!

This is not a "700-level question" -- it's not a possible GMAT question at all. The quadratic \(x^2 + 3x + 4 = 0\) does not have any real roots (the discriminant is clearly negative), and since the GMAT doesn't test imaginary numbers, for GMAT purposes α and β do not even exist. So the correct GMAT answer to this question is "there is no such equation", but that's not one of the choices. The question isn't properly designed.

What is the source of this question and of the other similar unrealistic questions I've seen posted recently, testing if you know formulas for the sum and product of the roots of a quadratic?

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