Question

Factor.
x^2−4x+4
plz help

Answer 1

(x-2) 2

Explanation:

Answer 2

We see that the equation: x^2 - 4x + 4 is a perfect square trinomial as it is in the form of a^2 + 2ab + b^2, meaning that it is the square of a binomial. In this case, we see that we can multiply (x-2) with itself to obtain x^2 - 4x +4.

So the factored form is : (x-2)^2, or (x-2)(x-2)

We can check this by multiplying this out, and we obtain the same trinomial.

x^2-2x-2x+4

x^2-4x+4

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