PLZ HELP I will give the brain!! Which of the following statements is true about completing the square? 1. When completing the square, add the square of half the coefficient of x to only the x^2+bx side of the equation. 2. When completing the square, add the square of half the coefficient of x to both sides of the equation. 3. When completing the square, subtract the square of half the coefficient of x from both sides of the equation. 4. When completing the square, add half the coefficient of x to both sides of the equation.

Option 2

Step-by-step explanation:

When completing the square, you have to find the number that will allow you to find the perfect square trinomials and when you factor that it should get the form a^2 + 2ab + b^2 and if a is equal to 1, then to find b, you have to take the half of the coefficient and square it because of the equation, and to maintain a balanced equation, you have to add it to both sides (same to both sides)

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Step-by-step explanation:

When completing the square, we add the square of half the coefficient of x to both sides of the equation.

Where b is the coefficient of x in the equation.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.