What is the degree of this monomial $x y^{2} z^{3}$ $xy^2z^3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-10T12:39:14

The degree of a monomial is the sum of the degrees of the factors in the monomial.

$x y^{2} z^{3} = x^{1} y^{2} z^{3}$ $xy^2z^3 = x^color(red)(1)y^color(red)(2)z^color(red)(3)$

has degree $1 + 2 + 3 = 6$ $color(red)(1+2+3) = 6$

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