Question

Fill in the blanks so the left side of each is a perfect square trinomial. That it complete the square

x^ 2 -2x+?=(x-?)^ 2

the question mark are the empty boxes for the numbers

Answer 1

1

Explanation:

Look at the LHS: you have the square of x, then you have 2 times x, times -1. to complete a square you just need to add the square of -1, that is 1. That becomes

`x^2-2x +1 = (x-1)^2`