Let $f: R \rightarrow R$ be the function $f(x)=\left(x-a_1\right)\left(x-a_2\right)$ $+\left(x-a_2\right)\left(x-a_3\right)+\left(x-a_3\right)\left(x-a_1\right)$ with $a_1, a_2, a_3 \in R$.Then, $f(x) \geq 0$ if and only if

Let $a, b, c, d$ be numbers in the set $\{1,2,3,4,5,6\}$ such that the curves $y=2 x^3+a x+b$ and $y=2 x^3+c x+d$ have no point in common. The maximum possible value of $(a-c)^2+b-d$ is

The number of solution$(s)$ of the equation $2^x = x^2$ is

The set of all $a \in R$ for which the equation $x | x -1|+| x +2|+a=0$ has exactly one real root is:

If $\alpha $ and $\beta $ are the roots of the quadratic equation, $x^2 + x\, sin\,\theta  -2sin\,\theta  = 0$, $\theta  \in \left( {0,\frac{\pi }{2}} \right)$ then $\frac{{{\alpha ^{12}} + {\beta ^{12}}}}{{\left( {{\alpha ^{ - 12}} + {\beta ^{ - 12}}} \right){{\left( {\alpha  - \beta } \right)}^{24}}}}$ is equal to

The number of integral values of $m$ for which the quadratic expression, $(1 + 2m)x^2 -2(1+ 3m)x + 4(1 + m),$ $x\in R,$ is always positive, is