How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms #12x^3 - 9x^2 + 5x^3 - 6x^2 + 3 + 2x#?
1 Answer
Jun 22, 2017
See explanation.
Explanation:
The starting polynomial is:
The standard form means sorting the polynomial by the decreasing degree of terms:
Now we can combine the like terms:
After the operation the polynomial is:
The polynomial is now in the standard form. From the form we can say that:
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It is a polynomial of third degree; this can be said because the highest degree of the variable
#x# with non-zero coefficient is#3# -
The polynomial has four terms.
