SOLUTION: "what are the values of a and c in the trinomial square ax^2+12x+c if a is not 1 and c is greater than a?"

SOLUTION: "what are the values of a and c in the trinomial square ax^2+12x+c if a is not 1 and c is greater than a?"

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Question 183214: "what are the values of a and c in the trinomial square ax^2+12x+c if a is not 1 and c is greater than a?"
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If is a square, it can be expressed as
(1)
performing the square, I get

Comparing this with

square both sides

should be a perfect square
If ,
and
is the only possibility
answer
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