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What number must you add to complete the square?

What number must you add to complete the square?-example-1
User Joe Maher
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Whenever you complete a square, you're really taking this:

(x+b)^2=x^2+2bx+b^2 [/tex]

And equating roots. Here, the b is clearly 11 (2b=22 implies b=11), so that means we want 121 as our ending number. That means we should add 121 to both sides to get:


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