How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms x-6x^2x6x2?

1 Answer
Jan 16, 2018

This is a quadratic binomial.

Explanation:

Given:

x-6x^2x6x2

To write this in standard form, put the terms in descending order of powers of xx to get:

-6x^2+x6x2+x

The term of highest degree is 22, so we call this a quadratic polynomial.

Here are the names of polynomials of the first few degrees:

11 - Linear

22 - Quadratic

33 - Cubic

44 - Quartic

55 - Quintic

66 - Sextic or Hextic

77 - Septic (!) or Heptic

88 - Octic

99 - Nonic

1010 - Decic

The given polynomial consists of two terms, so it is called a binomial.

Here are the names given to expressions consisting of nn terms for the first few values of nn:

11 - Monomial

22 - Binomial

33 - Trinomial

44 - Quadrinomial