Factor x^2-20x+100

$x^{2} - 20 x + 100$

Step 1

Rewrite $100$ as $10^{2}$ .

$x^{2} - 20 x + 10^{2}$

Step 2

Check that the middle term is two times the product of the numbers being squared in the first term and third term.

$20 x = 2 \cdot x \cdot 10$

Step 3

Rewrite the polynomial.

$x^{2} - 2 \cdot x \cdot 10 + 10^{2}$

Step 4

Factor using the perfect square trinomial rule $a^{2} - 2 a b + b^{2} = {(a - b)}^{2}$ , where $a = x$ and $b = 10$ .

${(x - 10)}^{2}$