Let the area of the triangle with vertices $A (1, \alpha)$, $B (\alpha, 0)$ and $C (0, \alpha)$ be $4\, sq.$ units. If the point $(\alpha,-\alpha),(-\alpha, \alpha)$ and $\left(\alpha^{2}, \beta\right)$ are collinear, then $\beta$ is equal to

Let $a ,b ,c $ be such that $b + c \ne 0$  if

$\left| {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}a&{a + 1}&{a - 1}\\{ - b}&{b + 1}&{b - 1}\\c&{c - 1}&{c + 1}\end{array}} \right| + \left| {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{a + 1}&{b + 1}&{c - 1}\\{a - 1}&{b - 1}&{c + 1}\\{{{\left( { - 1} \right)}^{n + 2}} \cdot a}&{{{\left( { - 1} \right)}^{n + 1}} \cdot b}&{{{\left( { - 1} \right)}^n} \cdot c}\end{array}} \right| = 0$ then $n$ equals to

The roots of the equation $\left| {\,\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}0&x&{16}\\x&5&7\\0&9&x\end{array}\,} \right| = 0$  are

If $\omega $ is an imaginary root of unity, then the value of $\left| {\,\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}a&{b{\omega ^2}}&{a\omega }\\{b\omega }&c&{b{\omega ^2}}\\{c{\omega ^2}}&{a\omega }&c\end{array}\,} \right|$ is

If $\left| {\,\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{x + 1}&1&1\\2&{x + 2}&2\\3&3&{x + 3}\end{array}\,} \right| = 0,$ then $x$ is

The value of the determinant given below $\left| {{\rm{ }}\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}1&2&3\\3&5&7\\8&{14}&{20}\end{array}} \right|$ is