Using the property of determinants and without expanding, prove that:

$\left|\begin{array}{lll}a-b & b-c & c-a \\ b-c & c-a & a-b \\ c-a & a-b & b-c\end{array}\right|=0$

If the minimum and the maximum values of the function $f :\left[\frac{\pi}{4}, \frac{\pi}{2}\right] \rightarrow R ,$ defined by : 

$f (\theta)=\left|\begin{array}{ccc}-\sin ^{2} \theta & -1-\sin ^{2} \theta & 1 \\ -\cos ^{2} \theta & -1-\cos ^{2} \theta & 1 \\ 12 & 10 & -2\end{array}\right|$ are $m$ and $M$ respectively, then the ordered pair $( m , M )$ is equal to

$2\,\,\left| {\,\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}1&1&1\\a&b&c\\{{a^2} – bc}&{{b^2} – ac}&{{c^2} – ab}\end{array}\,} \right| = $

The total number of distinct $x \in \mathbb{R}$ for which $\left|\begin{array}{ccc}x & x^2 & 1+x^3 \\ 2 x & 4 x^2 & 1+8 x^3 \\ 3 x & 9 x^2 & 1+27 x^3\end{array}\right|=10$ is

If the determinant $\left| {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{a\, + \,p}&{1\, + \,x}&{u\, + \,f}\\ {b\, + \,q}&{m\, + \,y}&{v\, + \,g}\\{c\, + \,r}&{n\, + \,z}&{w\, + \,h}\end{array}} \right|$ splits into exactly $K$ determinants of order $3$, each element of which contains only one term, then the value of $K$, is