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​Completing the square

Completing the square is the technique used for determining the solutions of a quadratic equation, or for finding the vertex of a parabola (this is not an exhaustive list of the uses of completing the square).

Example: x² + 4x + 5 in completed square form is (x + 2)² + 1

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