Ellardorado's answer to Nancy's Junior College 1 H2 Maths Singapore question.

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7^12 ==17 mod 47 is just done by brute force repeated multiplication. Vieta's formula tells us -b/a=0=sum of roots. One root is 17, hence the other root is -17=30 mod 47