SOLUTION: How do you determine if a polynomial is the difference of two squares?
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Question 575092: How do you determine if a polynomial is the difference of two squares?
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It all depends, but it takes practice. For example,
is obviously a difference of two squares. So is
.
However, something like
(a-b+c))
might tempt one to expand the whole thing, when it is indeed a difference of squares, and can be expressed as
^2 - b^2)
.
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