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HMMT November 2023 T5

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A complex quartic polynomial QQ is quirky if it has four distinct roots, one of which is the sum of the other three. There are four complex values of kk for which the polynomial Q(x)=x4−kx3−x2−x−45Q(x)=x^{4}-k x^{3}-x^{2}-x-45 is quirky. Compute the product of these four values of kk.

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