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Irreducibility makes the quartic Galois group a transitive subgroup of S4​. Its square discriminant puts it inside A4​, leaving V4​ or A4​. The cubic resolvent is
y3−48y−64.
(1)
The rational root theorem shows it is irreducible over Q. Thus the Galois group acts transitively on the three pairings of four roots, excluding V4​. Consequently
Gal(x4+8x+12/Q)≅A4​​.
(2)

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