The folowing is a reworded question from very last night . A printed solution of  a length of curve function, f(y) = x3 - 1/4x3, I was studying was solved to a point by finding the derivative of the function, square the result,  and then it followed its own instruction "simplify the integrand" and gave [ 1 + (x6 - 1/2 + 1/16x6) dx ]1/2 . It was very early in the morning and I did not recognize the source for the middle term (- 1/2) which had some unstated algebraic process. Would you please give me a step-wise understanding of this algebraic process? I do not need the rest of the solution nor its answer.

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The folowing is a reworded question from very last night . A printed solution of  a length of curve function, f(y) = x3 - 1/4x3, I was studying was solved to a point by finding the derivative of the function, square the result,  and then it followed its own instruction "simplify the integrand" and gave [ 1 + (x- 1/2 + 1/16x6) dx ]1/2 . It was very early in the morning and I did not recognize the source for the middle term (- 1/2) which had some unstated algebraic process.

Would you please give me a step-wise understanding of this algebraic process? I do not need the rest of the solution nor its answer.

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