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A student claims that \(49x^2−25y^2\) factorises as \((7x−5y)^2\). What is the error in the claim?

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Correct answer: \((7x−5y)^2\) contains the middle term \(−70xy\), whereas the given expression has no middle term.

Direct answer: A. The expression is a difference of squares: 49x²−25y²=(7x)²−(5y)². Therefore use u²−v²=(u−v)(u+v), giving (7x−5y)(7x+5y). The student incorrectly used the square-of-a-difference identity. Indeed, (7x−5y)²=(7x)²−2(7x)(5y)+(5y)²=49x²−70xy+25y². It has a middle term and a positive last term, neither of which occurs in the given expression. Option B is false because 49 and 25 are perfect squares. Option C is false because the expression has the factorisation just shown. Option D is false for the same expansion reason. Memory cue: (u−v)² has three terms, but u²−v² has two conjugate factors and no middle term.

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Difference Of SquaresPerfect Square ErrorAlgebraic IdentitiesFactorisationExploring Algebraic IdentitiesMathematicsClass 9 Mcq

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