Tuesday 21 August 2012

Completing the Square

In this blog we will see how to Completing the Square. To find the complete square of any term first we need to take a quadratic equation. For example: as we know that the equation which has highest power is 2 is said to be quadratic equation. The general form can be written as: ax2 + bx + c = 0, then change the general form into this given form:
a ( x + d)2 + e = 0.
If we want to find the value of variable ‘d’ then we use formula: the formula to find the vaule of ‘d’ given as: d = b / 2a and formula to find the vlaue of ‘e’ is given as: e = c – b2 / 4a. To calculate the complete square we need to follow some basic steps so that we can easily understand the process.
Step 1: First of all we have to take a simple expression. Suppose we have simple expression as: x2 + bx. Here in this expression value of x is twice.
Step 2: Then complete square in the given expression. So it can be written as: x2 + bx + (b / 2)2 = (x + b / 2)2, it means if we add (b / 2)2 then we get the square.
Let understand all the steps with the help of small example:
For example: p2 + 6x + 7, in this expression the value of b is 6,
Solution: Given expression is p2 + 6x + 7, to find its complete square we need to follow the above mention steps:
First of all we have to find the complete square or value of d. we can find the vlaue of d using the above given formula:
d = b / 2a = 6 / 2
So it can be written as:
p2 + 6p + (6 / 2)2 + 7 – (6 / 2)2
So it can be written as:
(p + 6 / 2)2 + 7 – 9 on further solving we get:
(p + 3)2 – 2. in this way we can find out the complete square.
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