Complete the square

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Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Complete the square	draft	Bill Foster	06/08/2020 08:29
Factorising Quadratics 5 - Completing the Square	Ready to use	Katie Lester	01/06/2016 09:47
Lois's copy of Complete the square	draft	Lois Rollings	25/10/2017 10:26
My Completing the Square	draft	steve kilgallon	05/09/2016 16:13
Completing the Square	Ready to use	Wan Mekwi	17/09/2021 10:28

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Question statement

Put the following quadratic expression in the form $(x+a)^2+b$ for suitable numbers $a$ and $b$ .

Note that you have to input your answer in the form $(x+a)^2+b$ and the numbers $a,\;b$ must be input exactly.

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

a	number	-8.5
s1	integer	-1
b	number	-63.25

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s1*random(1.0..9.5#0.5)

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Generated value: `number`

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$\simplify{x^2+{2*a}x+ {a^2+b}} = \phantom{{}}$ Unnamed gap.

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Given the quadratic $q(x)=\simplify{x^2+{2*a}x+ {a^2+b}}$ we complete the square by:

1. Halving the coefficient of $x$ gives $\var{a}$

2. Work out $\simplify[all]{p(x)=(x+{a})^2=x^2+{2*a}x+{a^2}}$ .
This gives the first two terms of $q(x)$ .

3. But the constant term $\simplify[all]{{a^2}}$ in $p(x)$ is not the same as in $q(x)$ , so we need to adjust by adding on $\simplify[std,!fractionNumbers]{{a^2+b}-{a^2}={b}}$ to $p(x)$ .
Hence we get

$q(x) = \simplify[all]{p(x)+{b} = (x+{a})^2+{b}}=\simplify[all]{ (x+{a})^2+{b}}$

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This question is used in the following exams:

mathcentre: Completing the square by Bill Foster in Bill's workspace.
Bradford: Completing the square by Bill Foster in Bill's workspace.
Maths Support: Completing the square by Christian Lawson-Perfect in Maths Support Wiki.
Bradford: Diagnostic test - Basic maths by Bill Foster in Bill's workspace.
Basic Maths Revision by Gareth Woods in Gareth's workspace.
C1 Revision by Kwame D Dwamena in Kwame D's workspace.
Peter's test exam by Peter Samuels in Peter's workspace.
Solving Quadratic Equations by Gareth Woods in Gareth's workspace.
mathcentre: Diagnostic test - Basic maths by Bill Foster in Bill's workspace.
Methods of Integration by Deirdre Casey in Deirdre's workspace.
Methods of integration by Simon Thomas in Maths support.
Math6040 - Integration by Julie Crowley in MATH6040 Technological Mathematics 201.
Markus's copy of Methods of Integration by Markus Schmied in Markus's workspace.

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Complete the square

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Taxonomy: mathcentre

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Contributors

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Christian Lawson-Perfect 4 years, 7 months ago

Bill Foster 55 years, 2 months ago

Error in variable testing condition

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Generated value: number

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Gap-fill

Generated value: `number`