Irene R. answered 10/07/20
BS in Mechanical Engineering and Certified math teacher for 13 years
Hi Kecharn,
Let's use the variable, x , to represent the unknown number.
The square of a number means to use the number as the base and apply an exponent of 2. This would be represented as : x2
Then we would add 6 to this squared term and would write :
x2 + 6