Solution

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Irreducibility makes the quartic Galois group a transitive subgroup of . Its square discriminant puts it inside , leaving or . The cubic resolvent is
The rational root theorem shows it is irreducible over . Thus the Galois group acts transitively on the three pairings of four roots, excluding . Consequently

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