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The way we create a perfect square trinomial is by squaring something in the form of

(x-a) where a is some real number.

For example (x-2)2 is x2 -4x+4 which is a perfect square trinomial.

Not, write this as (x-2)(x-2) instead of (x-2)2 .

To find the solutions, we write (x-2)(x-2)=0

The only solution that will make the left side equal to zero is 2.

So in general, if we have a perfect square trinomial with the unknown as x,

think of it as (x-a)2 or as (x-a)(x-a), then if we set this to 0, the one and only solution is x=a

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