you have enough paint to cover an are of 50 square feet. what is the side lenght of the largest square that you could paint. Round to the nearest tenth.

Question

What is the value of c, so that the following is a perfect square trinomial?
g^2+17g+c

Answer 1

if it is square of side s
then s^2 = 50
s = 7.1

complete the square
g^2 + 17 g + (17/2)^2

= (g+17/2)(g+17/2)