Margot is sewing a ribbon on a seam along the perimeter of a square pillow. The side length of the pillow is 2x2+1 inches. She p
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Answer:
<em>Both 16 and 1 are squares. This suggests using the formula for the difference of squares. Answer link.</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
Every time you have a difference in the format of
A2−B2 you can factor as (A−B)(A+B).
Then you have to identify if your quantity is the difference of two squared quantities.
It is. In fact we can write it as:
16x2−1=(4x)2−12
Then we can apply our rule