What's the full and actualquestion? Describe it more please
To complete the square you halve the coefficient of the x term and square it. Half of 14 is 7 and 7² is 49. So we add 49 and subtract 49, which means we are not changing the value of the quadratic. So we have x²+14x+49-49+2. This can be written: (x²+14x+49)-49+2, which is (x+7)²-47, which is answer a.
The answer is 48/100. As it is out of 100.
how much money did they start off with?
Basically you multiply the original length by the scale factor. So let's say there's a side length of 10 and the scale factor is .5, then you multiply 10 by .5 and get 5, that's all scale factor is . It can get larger/smaller, just depends on the number.
