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A facilities manager is analyzing a square office floor plan with an area represented by the polynomial 81y2−72y+1681y^2 - 72y + 16. True or False: When applying the perfect square trinomial pattern a2−2ab+b2=(a−b)2a^2 - 2ab + b^2 = (a - b)^2, the negative sign in the middle term (−72y-72y) indicates that the factored binomial square will involve subtraction rather than addition.

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