document.write( "Question 898531: Put Into Vertex Form:
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Algebra.Com's Answer #544881 by Edwin McCravy(20060) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Factor 3 out of the first two terms only.  Since 4 is not \r\n" );
document.write( "divisible by 3 and we have to take out a 3 anyway, we must \r\n" );
document.write( "divide the 4 by 3 and get a fraction. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Next we complete the square inside the parentheses:\r\n" );
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document.write( "1. Multiply the coefficient of the term in x, which is ,\r\n" );
document.write( "   by , getting \r\n" );
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document.write( "3. Add and subtract  inside the parentheses:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Group the first three terms in smaller parentheses inside the\r\n" );
document.write( "larger parentheses:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The inner parentheses trinomial factors like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we distribute to remove the large parentheses, leaving the smaller\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we complete the fraction work on the end.\r\n" );
document.write( "Cancel the 3 into the 9 and we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "Get a common denominator of 3 by multiplying the 5 by \r\n" );
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document.write( "And the final vertex form is:\r\n" );
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