Algebra 75 - Completing the Square - part 1

Quadratic equations can be solved using the "zero product property" once the quadratic expression has been factored into a pair of linear expressions. However, until the development of a technique called "Completing the Square", only certain types of quadratics were possible to factor. Over one thousand years ago, this prompted mathematicians to search for a technique that could be used to solve any quadratic equation. The break-through in devising a general method for solving quadratic equations was the technique that came to be called "Completing the Square".