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Answer 1

To arrange in descending order, you just start with the term with the largest exponent. Then you move onto the next largest exponent and so on...

Answer 2

what do you get when you write it in standard form?

Answer 3

what is standerd for again?

Answer 4

basically where the terms are sorted in a way that the largest exponent comes first, the next largest exponent comes next, etc etc

Answer 5

what is the largest exponent here?

Answer 6

6y^3

Answer 7

are you looking at the 6?

Answer 8

that's not an exponent, that's a coefficient

Answer 9

^3?

Answer 10

good, that's the exponent for 6y^3

Answer 11

is that the largest exponent of all the terms?

Answer 12

no theres a ^4

Answer 13

is there anything larger? or is that the largest exponent?

Answer 14

its the largest

Answer 15

good, so that's the first term

Answer 16

3y^4 is the first term

aka, the leading term

Answer 17

what's the next term?

Answer 18

we have an exponent of 4 (largest exponent)

what's the next largest exponent you see?

Answer 19

-5y

Answer 20

@jim_thompson5910

Answer 21

look at the exponents, not the coefficients

Answer 22

there are no more @jim_thompson5910

Answer 23

list out just the exponents for me please

Answer 24

in order from big to small?

Answer 25

yes or just list out the exponents for me

Answer 26

2y^2+3y^4-5y+6y^3

Answer 27

that's the original expression

what are the exponents?

Answer 28

^2^4^3

Answer 29

or just 2, 4, 3

because \(\large -5y = -5y^{1}\), this means that 1 is also an exponent

Answer 30

so the exponents are 2, 4, 1, 3

Answer 31

sort that in descending order to get _______

Answer 32

4,3,2,1

Answer 33

good

Answer 34

so the term with an exponent of 4 will come first

the term with an exponent of 3 will come next

etc etc

Answer 35

so if you were to arrange 2y^2+3y^4-5y+6y^3 into standard form, you'd get ______

Answer 36

3y^4, 6y^3, 2y^2, -5y

Answer 37

very good

Answer 38

the last step is to add them all up to get

3y^4+6y^3+2y^2+(-5y)

3y^4+6y^3+2y^2-5y

Answer 39

So the third term is ______

Answer 40

so the third term would be 2y^2

Answer 41

nailed it

Answer 42

thnk you :)