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b. Rico says it's a perfect square trinomial. Teresa says it's not a perfect square trinomial, because the first term is negative. Who is correct? Why or why not?

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Answer:

In the case of –9x^2 – 30x – 25, the complete factoring would be -(3x+5)^2, making Rico right.

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