How do you factor $9x^2+12x+4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-03T17:03:40

$=>(3x+2)^2$

$9x^2+12x+4$

This is a perfect square trinomial of the form:

$a^2x^2 + bx + c^2$

This means its factorization is:

$(ax+c)^2$

In our case, we have $a = 3$ , $b = 12$ , and $c = 2$ . So we have:

$9x^2 + 12x +4 = (3x+2)^2$

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