Question

What is the leading coefficient of the given polynomial?
f(x)= 9x^5 + 2x^4 + 6x^3 + 7x^2 + 5x + 4

Answer 1

9

Answer 2

The leading coefficient is just the number in front of your variable with the largest exponent. In this case your largest exponent is 5. What number is in front of x^5 ?

Answer 3

9 @BangkokGarrett I honestly just got it now. And the highest degree would be 5 right?

Answer 4

The degree is the sum of the variable exponent. So yes the degree is 5

Answer 5

5 is the degree, yes. The degree is the largest exponent in your polynomial.

Answer 6

No, the degree is the sum of the exponents of the variables. Normally you're asked to use the highest degree -- which is 5 here.

Answer 7

No, the degree is the largest exponent in your polynomial...not the sum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_a_polynomial
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Answer 8

By the sum i don't mean to add them, I mean the sum of the variable. x^3 = x*x*x <-- that's the sum I'm talking about...

Answer 9

Basically what I mean to say is that the degree of a polynomial is yes the largest is highest degree. However, the degree i'm referring to is for example, in 7x^4 the degree is 4, its the exponent of the variable. Probably expressed myself wrong.