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Introduction to Topic 6.4- Completing the Square

 

image of skid marks on a road

 

Today’s lesson will discuss the method of completing the square. This method can be used to solve problems such as determining how fast a car was going based on the length of its skid marks. Investigators often use this type of information to reconstruct accidents.

Essential Question: How can we find the square of a binomial for a quadratic model that is not a perfect square trinomial?

 


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