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This paper presents a detailed investigation of both normal and intruder states in 98Mo nucleus in the E ≥ 3 MeV. We considered all reported intruder energy levels for this nucleus, 0+2, 2+1, 4+1, 4+2, 2+2, and also the quadrupole transitions which originated from these levels. A mixing formalism based on the combination of U(5) and O(6) dynamical symmetries of the interacting boson model is used in the Hamiltonian and wavefunctions for, respectively, N- and (N + 2)-boson spaces. The weight of each space is determined by the calculation of theoretical quadrupole transition rates and compared with their experimental counterparts. By using these weights, the expectation values of the pure U(5) and O(6) Hamiltonians and also the total Hamiltonian that contains these limits and mixing terms are calculated for different levels, too. The results show that normal energy levels and quadrupole transition between them can be described satisfactory in comparison with experimental counterparts by using the pure U(5) Hamiltonian in the only N-boson space. For intruder levels and quadrupole transition originating from them or holding between normal and intruder states, the mixed formalism of Hamiltonian and wavefunctions increases the efficiency of theoretical formalisms and suggests exact results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]