Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be the roots of $x^2-6 x-2=0$, with $\alpha>\beta$. If $a_n=\alpha^n-\beta^n$ for $n \geq 1$, then the value of $\frac{a_{10}-2 a_8}{2 a_9}$ is

If $x, y$ are real numbers such that $3^{(x / y)+1}-3^{(x / y)-1}=24$ then the value of $(x+y) /(x-y)$ is

Let $y = \sqrt {\frac{{(x + 1)(x - 3)}}{{(x - 2)}}} $, then all real values of $x$ for which $y$ takes real values, are

If $|x - 2| + |x - 3| = 7$, then $x =$

Suppose $a$ is a positive real number such that $a^5-a^3+a=2$. Then,

Let $\alpha $ and $\beta $ be the roots of the quadratic equation ${x^2}\,\sin \,\theta  - x\,\left( {\sin \,\theta \cos \,\,\theta  + 1} \right) + \cos \,\theta  = 0\,\left( {0 < \theta  < {{45}^o}} \right)$ , and $\alpha  < \beta $.  Then $\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty  {\left( {{\alpha ^n} + \frac{{{{\left( { - 1} \right)}^n}}}{{{\beta ^n}}}} \right)} $ is equal to