Thursday, May 2, 2013

Extra credit : Completing the Square Math mistakes


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What did the student do wrong?

  • The student seemed to have taken the eight and square root it and it resulted in 2.8.
  • He left x alone and ignored the square root of ten and added 2.8 which then would be 12.8.
  • He did not properly follow the steps in order to complete the square.
What should have the student done instead?
  • The student should have seen the step where you are supposed to factor, and from there square root to take take away the ^2.
  • Then use +/- to have to answers. 



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