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completing the square (1 Viewer)

Thread starter helpplease
Start date Nov 1, 2009

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helpplease

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its been some time since i last did a completing the square problem
and i need help with it.

complete the square: 16x^(2)+16x+5

thanks

jet

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$16x^2 + 16x + 5 \\ \text{We can just separate the 5 into the amount required to make it a perfect square} \\ = \left (4x \right )^2 + 2\left(4x \right )\left (2 \right ) + 4 + 1 \\ = \left (4x + 2 \right )^2 + 1$

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