You see, completing the square is all about making the quadratic equation into a perfect square, engineering it, adding and subtracting from both sides so it becomes a perfect square.

In this article, we'll learn how to factor perfect square trinomials using special patterns. This reverses the process of squaring a binomial, so you'll want to understand that completely …

This challenge question gives us a shortcut to completing the square, for those that like shortcuts and don't mind memorizing things. It shows us that in order to complete x 2 + b x into a perfect …

In the video, Sal showed us 2 possible answers to factor out the trinomial. So, if I have to answer this question like in a test or something, am I supposed to show the 2 possible answers even …

Question 3: Is there a perfect square trinomial (i.e. x 2 10 x + 25 or 4 x 2 + 12 x + 9 )? If a perfect square trinomial is present, factor using the pattern a 2 ± 2 a b + b 2 = (a ± b) 2 .

If this step, right over here, you find strange, I encourage you to watch the videos on squaring binomials or on perfect square polynomials, either one, so you can see the pattern that this is …

So how do we make this into a perfect square? Well, if you just look at the traditional pattern for a perfect square, let's just think of it in terms of x plus a squared.

Squaring binomials is a breeze when you recognize patterns! The perfect square pattern tells us that (a+b)²=a²+2ab+b². The video shows how to square more complex binomials. It's all about …

The perfect square concept is important because we could factor any squares, but perfect squares get whole numbers. So I could say that x^2 - 3 factors to (x + √3) (x - √3) which is …

Video transcript - [Narrator] We're going to learn to recognize and factor perfect square polynomials in this video. So for example, say I have the polynomial x squared plus six x plus …