Question

Which of the following is a monomial?

Answer 1

c2 + c + 6
c2 − 16
−8c
c3 + 4c2 − 12c + 7

Answer 2

monomial means 1 term only. Which of the above is just one term?

Answer 3

b

Answer 4

?

Answer 5

To know the number of terms you have to count the number of plus or minus signs that are between terms.

Answer 6

If it's x plus or minus signs between terms then there are x+1 terms.

Answer 7

A term is simply an algebraic component separated by a plus or minus sign (includes the sign in front of it)

a + b + c - d has 4 terms (a, b, c and -d)
ab - cd has 2 terms (ab and -cd)

f - gh + b^2 has 3 terms (f,-gh and b^2)

Answer 8

ohhhh that makes sense! Thanks so much!!