How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms $1 - 2s + 5s^4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-01-15T18:42:17

Please look at explanation.

When you want to write a polynomial in standard form, we need to put the variable with the highest degree first, and the number last.

Our highest degree here is the $5s^4$ , and our number is $1$ .

Our standard form polynomial is $5s^4 - 2s + 1$ .

To classify it by a degree, we also look at the variable with the highest degree, $5s^4$ . So our degree of the polynomial is 4th degree .

There are three terms in this polynomial: $1$ , $-2s$ , and $5s^4$ , meaning that this polynomial is a trinomial.

Hope this helps!

How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms 1 - 2s + 5s^4 1 - 2s + 5s^4?