A solvable quintic with the root $x=(\sqrt[5]{p}+\sqrt[5]{q})^5$ - what are the other roots?

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I derived a two parameter quintic equation with the root:

$$x=(\sqrt[5]{p}+\sqrt[5]{q})^5,~~~~~p,q \in \mathbb{Q}$$

$$\color{blue}{x^5}-5(p+q)\color{blue}{x^4}+5(2p^2-121pq+2q^2)\color{blue}{x^3}-5(2p^3+381p^2q+381pq^2+2q^3)\color{blue}{x^2}+\\ + 5(p^4-121p^3q+381p^2q^2-121pq^3+q^4)\color{blue}{x}-(p+q)^5=0 \tag{1}$$

I'm unsure what the other roots are.

My thoughts: this is really a $25$ degree equation, it has $25$ roots.

Since there are 5 fifth degree roots, it makes sence, that we have:

$$x=y^5$$

$$y_{kn}=w_{5k}\sqrt[5]{p}+w_{5n}\sqrt[5]{q},~~~~~k,n=\{1,2,3,4,5\}$$

With $w_{5k}$ - $5$th roots of unity and $\sqrt[5]{p},\sqrt[5]{q}$ - principal roots.

Is this correct?

If we have $25$ different roots of the $25$th degree equation, what about the quintic equation $(1)$?


Edit

Another possible way - we can probably write:

$$x=p(1+\sqrt[5]{q/p})^5=q(1+\sqrt[5]{p/q})^5$$

Then we have $5$ possible roots inside the bracket.

Is this the correct way to get all the roots of $(1)$?

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$x = p(1 + (\frac qp)^{\frac 15})^5 \in \Bbb Q((\frac qp)^{\frac 15})$.

And so the splitting field of your degree $5$ polynomial is $\Bbb Q((\frac qp)^{\frac 15},\zeta_5)$, the conjugates of $x$ are obtained by multiplying $(\frac qp)^{\frac 15}$ with a power of $\zeta_5$.

Also this is not really a degree $25$ equation.

If you naïvely look at the "conjugate" $(\zeta_5 p^\frac15 + \zeta_5 q^\frac 15)^5$, well it turns out you can factor out $\zeta_5$ and this is equal to your original $x$. So $x$ doesn't have as many distinct conjugates as you would think it should have.