What constant should we add to #n^2+n+_...# to make it a perfect square?
1 Answer
Jan 10, 2018
The proper constant to add is
Explanation:
Compare
It is apparent that
If it so, how can we write
well we need
i.e. we have
if this is equal to second term in
we must have
and hece third term in trinomial has to be
Hence to complete perfect square trinomial we have