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If using the method of completing the square to solve the quadratic equation x² – 8x 1= 0, which number would have to be added to "complete the square"?
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If using the method of completing the square to solve the quadratic equation

x² – 8x
1= 0, which number would have to be added to "complete the
square"?

User Refti
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You add half of the coefficient of x and square it.

What you do on one side,you must do it on the other.

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