Question

How do you find the missing number or term to make a perfect square trinomial. `y^2 + 1/2y +___`?

Answer 1

Problem: How to complete the perfect square trinomial: `y^2+1/2y+ ?`.

Divide the coefficient for `y` by `2`, then square the result. This will give you the missing term.

`(1/2)/2=1/2*1/2=1/4`.

`(1/4)^2=1/16`

Solution:

`y^2+1/2y+1/16`