Completing the Square

What is the first step to solving THIS equation by completing the square?
a² + 10a + 21 = 0

• Set the equation equal to zero
• Divide 10 by 2 and add the result to both sides
• Add a² and 10a together
• Subtract the 21

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

What do you do to the b value to correctly complete the square?

• square it
• divide it by 2 and square the result
• divide it by 2 and take the square root of the result
• divide it by 2 only

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

What value of c would make this a perfect square trinomial?
x² - 12x + c

• 36
• 24
• 144
• -36

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

What value of c would make this a perfect sqaure trinomial?
x² +8x + c

• 4
• 16
• 64
• -16

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Solve by completing the square.
y² + 10y = -9

• 1 and -12
• -1 and -9
• 1 and -9
• 1 and -1

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Solve by completing the square.
x² +12x = 5

• X = 6 + √41 or  6 − √41
• X= 35 or 47
• X = −6 + √41 or  −6 − √41
• X = √35 or √47

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Solve the equation by completing the square and then finding the roots. 
x²+ 6x - 4 = 36

• x = -7, 7
• x = 4, -10
• x = -4 +- √7
• x = 10, -4

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Complete the square for
x² + 12x + ____

• x² + 12x + 144
• x² + 12x + 36
• x² + 12x - 36
• x² + +12x - 144

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Solve. x² + 4x - 16 = 0

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

Complete the Square and solve the equation.
r² - 4r = 30

• 2 ± √ 34
• ± √ 34
•  34
• ± 2

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B