SOLUTION: Hi, my question is about Completing the Square: (2x+2)^2+3 - What is this in COMPLETED SQUARE FORM? Thank you.

Question 1046063: Hi, my question is about Completing the Square:
(2x+2)^2+3 - What is this in COMPLETED SQUARE FORM?
Thank you.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A square is already complete there.
However, , and we love factoring.
So, you could express another way,
,
and that is probably what was expected.

If they showed you the polynomial
,
looking at the part with ,
you would see a square on one and another loose ."Completing the square" is getting all the x's in a neat little square-of-a-binomial package.

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