Question

Anyone??? What term do you need to add to each side of 6x^2 + 24x = 1 to complete the square?

Choices:
4
1/4
12
1/12

Answer 1

@amistre64

Answer 2

6x^2 + 24x = 1

factor out the left

6(x^2+4x) = 1

complete the square inside now by adding the square of half the x part

6(x^2+4x+4-4) = 1

6(x+2)^2 -6(4) = 1

Answer 3

its either 4 or 12 ... the choices seem odd to me

Answer 4

in effect, your adding 24 to each side :/

Answer 5

yea i see what your saying!! math.. gotta love it

Answer 6

the answer is most likely 4 that they want; but they word the question poorly

Answer 7

the website that im studying on says its 4 = /

Answer 8

what happens when we add 4 to each side?

6x^2 + 24x +4= 1+4

6x^2 + 24x +4 = 5

6x^2 +24x -1 = 0

if this is a perfect square; we should end up with one root for x

x = -6+- sqrt(36-4(-6))/12

x = -6+- sqrt(60)/12

aint no way; we still got a value under the sqrt

Answer 9

ugh ok another one to have answered tomorrow... thanks for trying though im writing all this down

Answer 10

4

Answer 11

(x + 4x) + 4 = (x + 2)^2

Answer 12

It seems the question just focus on what number adding to complete square,
not the result!

Answer 13

oh i see thank you so much!

Answer 14

I missed square,
(x^2 + 4x) + 4 = (x + 2)^2

Answer 15

Thanks!!

Answer 16

yes, they are focusing on that while asking for " What term do you need to add to each side" which is NOT that ...