Question

enter the degree of the polynomial

10x4+4x5+7x2+6x7-8x6

Answer 1

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Answer 2

the degree us the highest value of x right ?

Answer 3

\[10x^4+4x^5+7x^2+6x^7-8x^6\]
What is the largest exponent?

Answer 4

The degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of all the variables of that term.
The degree of a polynomial is the same as the degree of the term with the highest degree.

Answer 5

highest power ., of x ,. so when you add up all the similar terms you can jus look at the highest exponent of x

Answer 6

so the degree of the polynomial is the high exponent number?

Answer 7

yea,. like ., if you had x^2 + x + 1 ., the degree would be 2

Answer 8

kay kay thanks