Question

How many terms are in this polynomial?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

@sammixboo

Answer 3

a term is numbers and or letters multiplied together (it looks like a "word" )

Answer 4

so their is two terms

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

i have one more question the degree of the polynomial is 2 correct

Answer 7

degree is a bit more complicated.

you add up the exponents (little numbers in the upper right) of all the variables in a term.
you then pick the biggest sum to be the degree

Answer 8

for example, in your problem the second term is -3pq
p is the same as \(p^1\) i..e its exponent is 1
the q also has exponent 1.
added together, we get 2

now we do that same thing for the first term.
can you do that ?