Rhett decides to build a square room for his movie and music collection. If the area of the room is 9x2 − 6x + 1 square feet, what is the length of one side of the room?


A. (3x + 1) feet

B. (9x − 1) feet

C. (3x − 1) feet

D. (9x + 1) feet

I am stuck on this question please help thank you

4 answers

it is supposed to say 9x^2-6x+1
Since it is a perfect square, it's easy to check.

(a-b)^2 = a^2-2ab+b^2

so you know that a=3 and b=1

(3x-1)^2 = 9x^2-6x+1
so it would be c?
Yes, C is correct