How do you know if 144a^2 -96a + 16 is a perfect square trinomial and how do you factor it?
1 Answer
Jun 10, 2015
Yes, it is:
Explanation:
We can simplify by deviding all the cohefficients by 16:
Now we notice that the -6a could be a double product between -1 and 3a:
So it is a perfect square trinomial.
