Lesson Ch. 3.

3 Solving by completing the square

Part 1

Review Remember back to multiplying

arrays

3 12 squares
also 12
we can
get
by breaking 3 and 4
I t 3 into parts

Htt
Thatgives us four quadrants

Then we can do harderproblems with

variables using F O I L to multiply
X t 3 Answer

x't4
f 3x Trinomial
 when there are repeating binomials Xt 3 xx
then we get the special situation where
the shape is a square x 37

xxx
0 6 37
2 9
I 6

complete the square

Like the name of the title complete the
square literally
means completing the
shape so you get a
square

I tix to c f
c
4 15 25 Step 1 Take b
and divide
by 2
Ans X 10x 25
Step 2 Squareyour
answer