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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ia Paper 1 1B b Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The vertices satisfyAfter removing the root , the product of the other roots has modulus equal to the constant term of , namely . Hence the product of the chord lengths from one vertex of a unit regular polygon is . Multiplying this identity over all vertices counts every chord twice, so the product of all chord lengths is . Scaling the circle by scales each of its chords by , giving
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