Eric Nicholas K's answer to meria's Secondary 3 E Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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To complete the square, we introduce a term equal to the square of

HALF the coefficient of x

Then, in the completed square form, we just take this ‘half the coefficient of x’ as the second term in the bracket.