How do you identify the degree of each term of the polynomial and the degree of the polynomial #-7x^3+9x^2+3x+5#?
1 Answer
May 12, 2015
The degree of a term is the power, to which the unknown is raised. So the degree of
The degree of
The degree of
The degree of the free term (number without any unknowns) in this case 5 is zero because you could write it as
The degree of a polynomial is the highest degree of all the terms of the polynomial. In this case the highest degree of a term is 3, so the polynomial has a degree of 3.
