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Scaling every root scales its elementary symmetric polynomials by the corresponding powers of d. Therefore the monic polynomial is
X3+dc1​X2+d2c2​X+d3c3​.​
(1)
This remains valid for d=0, when all three roots are zero; deriving it by symmetric coefficients avoids dividing by d.

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