Question

How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms `4x^2 - 3x^3 + 2`?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

To write our polynomial in standard form, we want the term with the highest degree first. The `x^3` term will come first. We have

`-3x^3+4x^2+2`

The degree is the highest exponent we see, and we see that this is `3`, so we can say this is a third-degree polynomial.

We see that our addition signs divide this expression into three sections- our three terms.

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