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    @MishaBjerken9 жыл бұрын

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    @frederikmarohn6358

    9 жыл бұрын

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  • @BlackHatChannel

    @BlackHatChannel

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @animationspace8550

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @victormercier9013

    3 жыл бұрын

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    @big4headedGangster

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    @hannahmassey27628 жыл бұрын

    this helped a lot more than my Algebra teacher

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    @Levelupring

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @burgerlover578 жыл бұрын

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    8 жыл бұрын

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    8 жыл бұрын

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    @musicandsoul4841

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @VinceDSkates10 жыл бұрын

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    @sakshishaurya42135 жыл бұрын

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    @vishnudarsan5343

    4 жыл бұрын

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    3 жыл бұрын

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    @scrimbus

    Жыл бұрын

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    @Chic0Lachowski8 жыл бұрын

    I am in 9th grade and you sir just saved my life.

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    @NickAventador

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @Levelupring

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @antonaviador5095

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @David-kl7to

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @Levelupring

    8 жыл бұрын

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    @BBroxable10 жыл бұрын

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    @conversationdomination56258 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! My Algebra 2 teacher is Romanian and English is literally her fourth language. As you could imagine, she isn't the greatest teacher on the planet. I really appreciate it!

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    @mikaelakozechik73459 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for picking up on my math teacher's slack. 💗

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    @shellylynn5571

    8 жыл бұрын

    Honestly same

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    @cakeused

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mikaela Kozechik same

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    @danab3377 жыл бұрын

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    @aki8155

    7 жыл бұрын

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    @danab337

    7 жыл бұрын

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    @nickbahamonde75378 жыл бұрын

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    @qwenabellwynfell97786 жыл бұрын

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    @arshpreetsekhon27333 жыл бұрын

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  • @evilgary747
    @evilgary7478 жыл бұрын

    Do people appreciate the genius of this method, and how everything just works out?

  • @rhiannn3416

    @rhiannn3416

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sal Khan is such a life saver. Literally helps me with everything, history, science and Maths. I have no problems with English.

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    @mousehead2000

    7 жыл бұрын

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    @jimsmith1172

    7 жыл бұрын

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  • @antoniorodrigo643
    @antoniorodrigo643 Жыл бұрын

    thank you khan academy!! my girlfriend and i couldn’t cook pizza and we couldn’t complete the square either!! BUT YOU HELPED US SOLVE ONE OF THOSE PROBLEMS :))

  • @vkdagamer2984
    @vkdagamer29842 жыл бұрын

    I wish we just watched your video during math hour. Much easier to understand

  • @mrnoname9813
    @mrnoname98132 жыл бұрын

    I have ADHD and yet still I've learned more from these guys in this video than I have in algebra class throughout the whole unit on quadratic equations

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    @paulandrewgonzales1241 Жыл бұрын

    This man can teach me all these things in 15 mins than my teachers could in a few hours.

  • @olivianunez3400
    @olivianunez34007 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video, I was having lots of trouble with this process, but now it has cleared my mind!! Thanks again!!👏🏽👌🏽⚡️🔥😇

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    @gurenmk50478 жыл бұрын

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    @jayleeplays40896 жыл бұрын

    WHY DA HELL IS MY TEACHER TELLING ME I NEED TO MASTER THIS WHEN I AM IN ALGEBRA 1?!?!.

  • @modnar246

    @modnar246

    3 жыл бұрын

    because this will be so much useful in calculus

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    @tehpaweu6 жыл бұрын

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    @jawny012 ай бұрын

    Crazy that this has been helping people for 15 years

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    @eugenioborgnolo260410 жыл бұрын

    You're good keep it up :D I didn't understand everything at the start but I got it towards the end Thank you very much you superior human being

  • @albertmendoza1468
    @albertmendoza14686 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir. This was our second math lesson in 9th grade and you made me understand it more!! Thanks :D

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    @ea53315 жыл бұрын

    Khan academy has saved me so many times now

  • @seanys
    @seanys2 жыл бұрын

    Seriously, Sal, I **love** your work! Thank you.

  • @eliasmejia352
    @eliasmejia3525 жыл бұрын

    Love it when my math teacher doesn’t teach us how to do this and gives us a test today !!!

  • @juanlikesmath7813
    @juanlikesmath78138 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Very well explained! Thanks!

  • @laurenxd0
    @laurenxd04 жыл бұрын

    im jn algebra 1 in seventh grade and lemme just say THANK YOU SO MUCH

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    @chipc23299 жыл бұрын

    So glad Khan Academy can step in a help with homework!

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    @samtaufeeq63749 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this video, made me understand the concept better.

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    @raymondjulius24746 жыл бұрын

    youre the besttttttttttttttttttttttt thankssssssssssssss youre my online math teacherrrr.

  • @TheBeithirSnake
    @TheBeithirSnake4 жыл бұрын

    This helps alot. I have to do this in online school and the slideshow explanation crap they give us just doesn't make sense. Dziękuję, Khan Academy.

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    @lewirthlindatuin2093 жыл бұрын

    You save me. Thank you

  • @anjumzeeshan9075
    @anjumzeeshan90757 жыл бұрын

    The only reason I still like math my teachers are o useless ily Khan academy

  • @christinathapa5866
    @christinathapa58663 жыл бұрын

    After watching sal’s video iam understanding math for the first time ever He’s great!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sharifahzahirah8672
    @sharifahzahirah86728 жыл бұрын

    OMG did u know? all the modules and reference books didnt have this method here. however i thought that completing the square was difficult but i found ur method to be easy. so i used it and wala i got it right! im so happy cuz sincd last year whenever theres a question on completing the square ive been skipping it. thnk u

  • @dhruv216
    @dhruv2167 жыл бұрын

    Omg u just made this topic so easy for me

  • @joshuagamutan1725
    @joshuagamutan17256 жыл бұрын

    You're a life saver man!

  • @ssamerica3062
    @ssamerica3062 Жыл бұрын

    10:27 And this is the moment when it all made sense. I had the question in my head why divide -3x by 2 if you're trying to make it a perfect square wouldn't you just square it? but no, you did it because now you're able to factor. And when you have (x-3/2)^2, -3/2x + -3/2x adds to get -3 because essentially what you've done is you got rid of the division by multiplying it by 2. But then (-3/2)^2 also multiplies to get you 9/4 which you have added to both sides so the equation is preserved

  • @chillzilla7412
    @chillzilla7412 Жыл бұрын

    thank you sal for everything you do. i came across your videos some point in elementary school because we had khan academy and now im in 12th grade! the videos my algebra teacher gave me are horrible so i decided to watch yours instead lol

  • @exrte_
    @exrte_4 жыл бұрын

    I just finished algebra 1 and I'm moving on to geometry, my teacher gave us a packet for math to do over the summer and I don't think they ever taught us this.

  • @User-mb9qs
    @User-mb9qs10 жыл бұрын

    one of the few of your videos where I come out more confused than how I came in

  • @frozenfury1634
    @frozenfury16346 жыл бұрын

    this is very helpful thank you so much. You're a lifesaver :D

  • @SuperPyschotic20
    @SuperPyschotic2010 жыл бұрын

    the 2nd one was confusing but I can get this down easily even trigonometry isn't that hard to me, i just need to pass this placement test by next week.

  • @jumugama
    @jumugama11 жыл бұрын

    that was pretty helpful, thank you.

  • @connermcginley
    @connermcginley3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Sal your the best 🙏

  • @483mannan
    @483mannan Жыл бұрын

    thank you very much sir, you are the hope raiser for me to make me believe that I can do math😄😄

  • @PKruzen
    @PKruzen12 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU MR KHAN. YOUDAMAN!

  • @arunprathapan3739
    @arunprathapan37397 жыл бұрын

    Where does the +/- come from @4:10? Many thanks

  • @desireerobinson7916

    @desireerobinson7916

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arun Prathapan the number can be either positive or negative because a negative number times by itself is a positive. Eg: -3 squared equals 3 squared, therefore a square root can be a positive or negative

  • @helixshark1753
    @helixshark17537 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU!!!! This helped me study for my test

  • @helixshark1753

    @helixshark1753

    7 жыл бұрын

    Btw I got a 100 on that test

  • @raahi2531

    @raahi2531

    8 ай бұрын

    @@helixshark1753 6 years later but congrats on 100 :D

  • @pomrrrya7845
    @pomrrrya78452 жыл бұрын

    its 2022 n this is still useful

  • @meganhayne1998
    @meganhayne19983 жыл бұрын

    this was a lifesaver and I have a test in 15 min 😭

  • @saraaAAAGH

    @saraaAAAGH

    3 жыл бұрын

    How’d it go

  • @RandomRakkoon

    @RandomRakkoon

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you pass?

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    @big4headedGangster

    3 жыл бұрын

    They passed away

  • @stevenscottoddballz
    @stevenscottoddballz Жыл бұрын

    11:18 Wait...WHAT?!? Did you click a button & get the Graphing Calculator?!? I would like to know how you did that please!

  • @VideoGamers1215
    @VideoGamers121512 жыл бұрын

    nice video u r fairly helpful

  • @LiveGoodPhilippines888
    @LiveGoodPhilippines8886 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for this sir

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    @jimingyang570510 ай бұрын

    u r actually a hero

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    @rabalac9912 жыл бұрын

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    @squiz446510 жыл бұрын

    Math test tomorrow on this stuff... I may as well not even show up... Too hard

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    @Dcmarvel8312 жыл бұрын

    thanks so much for your help man 😇

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    @Kelly-ug7ir4 жыл бұрын

    I was absent when my teacher taught this ToT it came bk to me during quarantine

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    @mikematthew6575 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot Khan Academy

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    @rainetanghal78419 жыл бұрын

    Youre saving my life

  • @deusexmachina1597
    @deusexmachina15974 жыл бұрын

    You can also use (b÷2)^2 for the missing number

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    @channelsixtysix0662 жыл бұрын

    The seemingly ridiculous fractions (some in 3 figures or more), I find amusing. But it all works out in the end, because it is a perfect square. My professor said to leave them in fractional form, this is the more accurate answer.

  • @robotdeer
    @robotdeer8 жыл бұрын

    I watch other videos and it makes sense, but I feel like I need to watch a Khan academy video multiple times and even then I don't get it. Wondering what the mental block is...

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    @anoirtrabelsi864511 жыл бұрын

    best teacher in my life

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    @chelccaps11 жыл бұрын

    the 10x^2 - 30x - 8 = 0 example saved my life

  • @thomasday4545
    @thomasday45454 жыл бұрын

    If some of you were confused about why he separated the x-2 and x-2- remember that you have to find two numbers that add to give you b but multiply to give you c.

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    @iconic_pro-gamer51857 жыл бұрын

    Hey really help with stuff that I am struggling with

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    @iconic_pro-gamer5185

    7 жыл бұрын

    he

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    @maddyallen119811 жыл бұрын

    thank you soooo much!!

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    @antonnig42886 жыл бұрын

    If needing to use khan academy makes you dumb then I’m proud to be dumb

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    @sargeantwolf58958 жыл бұрын

    why dont you have ads on your videos??!! you would be making bank! and possibly having this as your carreer!!

  • @davidoko3592

    @davidoko3592

    8 жыл бұрын

    lol this is his career, he aims to provide this service for us free of charge, because learning should be free. Search "Khan Academy Ted Talks" on KZread to find out more about him, his organisation and their objectives

  • @theepiccheeta

    @theepiccheeta

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well i mean it is still free to us even if he did put ads on

  • @anrojo14
    @anrojo1411 жыл бұрын

    better and more polite than my teacher

  • @egg_mittens
    @egg_mittens11 ай бұрын

    this man, in 4 minutes, taught me what a private education failed to in 4 years.

  • @joeycollins4838
    @joeycollins48386 жыл бұрын

    explained it waaay better than my 8th grade algebra teacher

  • @whoisxander
    @whoisxander9 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks for sharing

  • @mikaelakozechik7345

    @mikaelakozechik7345

    9 жыл бұрын

    I'm learning this in algebra 2, but it also came up in my algebra 1 class if that helps you

  • @johnmccracken1942
    @johnmccracken19427 жыл бұрын

    very helpful

  • @ericmuiter8299
    @ericmuiter82997 жыл бұрын

    Hello, and thank you in advance if anybody responds. And peace to all. I am taking a union apprenticeship test tomorrow basis of which is basic algebra, and geometry. i.e. linear distance from fraction to decimal and vice versa. Add/Subtraction unlike terms. Factoring Quad equations and solving quad.following a given formula. As far as the geometry its radius, circumference, arc Lengths, parallel lines and transversals. Math was once effortless for me as i see it now in my girls 18,11,6.. Ya i know pray for me.. haha.

  • @skyaw
    @skyaw7 жыл бұрын

    2:50 is it 2ax = - 4x or - 2ax = - 4x ?

  • @user-to3dl2hy5p
    @user-to3dl2hy5p9 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU SO MUCH

  • @tajudeenabdulkabirakintola6127
    @tajudeenabdulkabirakintola6127 Жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed your workout but I have some note on some parts sir from where you're using x² -4x +? = (x - a)² (x-a)² = x² - 2ax + a² So by comparing both sides of the equation, we supposed to have -2ax= -4x (not 2ax = -4x) Therefore a = 2 (not -2) But from the video, you got x = -2 and if you substitute it to the parentheses (x - a)², it will now be [x - (-2)]² which will be (x+2)² Hope you understand sir?

  • @theallimere
    @theallimere11 жыл бұрын

    Missed the lesson on this & reading the textbook doesn't help. Thank you (:

  • @jamanmd4597
    @jamanmd45975 ай бұрын

    khan academy came in clutch

  • @fyrerayne8882
    @fyrerayne8882 Жыл бұрын

    That’s nifty.

  • @lawesosah9214
    @lawesosah92145 жыл бұрын

    This video is AWESOME. What calculator app was that you used at 11:21

  • @cakeused
    @cakeused7 жыл бұрын

    This says algebra 2 . So I've been taking algebra 2 things in 8th grade... wow I'm so mad rn

  • @wachako4065
    @wachako40657 жыл бұрын

    your better than my teacher

  • @adamant376
    @adamant37610 жыл бұрын

    Completing the square is too difficult.

  • @justinmanangan9968
    @justinmanangan99686 жыл бұрын

    4:38 is an alternative faster way to do the problem guys

  • @ShreyMittal16
    @ShreyMittal1610 жыл бұрын

    sal please make a tutorial on how to use your calculator too :P

  • @obesefrogman
    @obesefrogman Жыл бұрын

    You've done it Again mr. Khan 🐸

  • @chrer9385
    @chrer93858 ай бұрын

    9:02

  • @juliecramer7768
    @juliecramer77687 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @daniazaheer4924
    @daniazaheer49246 жыл бұрын

    Y=x^2 +7x-5 can be written in the form (x+a)^2+b. What is the value of a and b???