Question

Needing someone who can help in pre calculus

Answer 1

With?

Answer 2

this is the assignment i cant figure out

Answer 3

I'll help you.

Answer 4

awesome, thank you. My teacher give out sound recordings but she doesn't answer questions and most of the time she doesn't even make sense in her recordings.

Answer 5

Happens, but let's begin with the first exercisa, shall we?

Answer 6

of course

Answer 7

We want to find the degree of this polynomial:
\[s ^{3}t ^{2}u\]
now, we know that the degree of a polynomial equation is determined by the variable with the highest exponent and we have a s^3, so we can conclude that it's of 3rd degree.

Answer 8

so the degree is the highest exponent?
s

Answer 9

yes :)

Answer 10

okay so for the next 2 they would be 5 and then 3?

Answer 11

The degree is the sum of all the exponents in a single term, NOT the highest exponent of that term.

Answer 12

So wait, now i'm confused,

Answer 13

what, I thought it was the leading exponent.

Answer 14

Find the term that has the highest total exponent

eg \[\Large x^2 y^3 + x^6y\]
the first term has degree 5 (2 + 3), the second has degree 7 (6 + 1) - the degree is therefore 7.

Answer 15

woah so for s^3t^2u it would be 6?

Answer 16

Oh, I see, that's in the case of multiplication, did not remember that one :P,
he's right. I'm very very sorry.

Answer 17

i'm still blatantly confused

Answer 18

s^3t^2u it would be 6

yes.

Answer 19

will youhelp me with my assignment sir?

Answer 20

That's a huge assignment to help with, you'd be better off (ie more likely to get help) taking one question from each section than posting the whole thing at once.

I gotta log off soon.

Answer 21

ah okay.

Answer 22

@abb0t

Answer 23

@e.mccormick

Answer 24

wat