Location of Roots
Location of Roots: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Quadratic Equation with Both the Roots Less than 'k', Quadratic Equation with Both the Roots Greater than 'k', Quadratic Equation with 'k' Lying between the Roots, etc.
Important Questions on Location of Roots
For how many integral values of , the equation , where is an integer has real roots and both of them lie in the interval ?

If are zeros of where for all , then the complete set of values of is

Let and be such that , then the quadratic equation has

The value of for which the quadratic expression is positive for exactly three integral values of is

If the quadratic equation has two distinct roots in where and then the minimum value of is

The values of for which each root of the equation is greater than , always satisfy the inequality

Given and . Then lies in the interval:

The values of for which the roots of the equation are real and exceed are -

For the given equation , what are the values of so that it contains two distinct real roots in the interval

The range of for which the equation has its smaller root in the interval is

Let the values of for which one root of the equation is smaller than and the other greater than be . Find

If lies between both the roots of , then


The smallest value of for which both the roots of the equation are real, distinct and have values atleast is

If both the roots of the quadratic equation are real and distinct and they lie in the interval then lies in the interval

Consider the quadratic equation, Let be the set of all integral values of for which one root of the equation lies in the interval and its other root lies in the interval Then, the number of elements in is

Consider the inequality , for at least one negative value of , the complete set of values of ‘’ is:

If both roots of the quadratic equation are real and distinct and they lie in the interval then _____
Note: In the actual JEE paper interval was

If the roots of the quadratic equation are real and less than , then

Let denotes the set of all real values of for which the roots of the equation lie between and , then equals to :
