How come for the top example the 5 is included in the brackets but for the bottom example it isn't?
#Completing The Sqaure
summer jasper
dusk lake
If 5 was in the bracket in the second one and you expanded it out, you wouldn't get the original expression
If you like all of it in the bracket you can do -2(x^2 -6x - 5/2) and complete the square like that and you'll still get the same answer, but here you can see if you expanded it out, you'd get the original expression
summer jasper
Is it right though if I did it like this
dusk lake
Yes it is still right
dusk lake
You can do it either whatever you prefer