A few days ago
babydollof4kids

Find the constant term that should be added to make the following expressions a perfect-square trinomial?

x^2-8x

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A few days ago
mathvideosonline.com

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This is a formula that you should apply:

(a-b)^2=a^2 -2ab +b^2

In your problem a=x and b=4

so b^2= 16

Then x^2-8x+16x^2= (x-4)^2

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A few days ago
scripta_elegans
the last term is +16 giving the perfect square (x-4) squared
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