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Is -9x^(2)-30x-25 a perfect square trinomial?

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no

Explanation:

The leading term and constant term of a perfect square trinomial are positive. Here, all terms are negative, so the trinomial is not the square of any binomial with real coefficients.

It can be written in terms of a perfect square as ...

= -(3x +5)²

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