How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms $g^4 - 2g^3 - g^5$ ?

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How do you write a polynomial in standard form, then classify it by degree and number of terms $g^4 - 2g^3 - g^5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-17T04:31:38

The expression $-g^5+g^4-2g^3$ is a 5th degree polynomial

Explanation:

The standard form of a polynomial means that the order of degree, with the highest degree going first, and then the next highest, and so on and so forth...

So, we go from $g^4-2g^3-g^5$ to $-g^5+g^4-2g^3$

This is the standard form of the polynomial. Now let's classify it

Classification by term:
We are actually classifying the expression by the number of terms. So, there are more than 3 terms ( $-g^5+g^4-2g^3+0g^2+0g$ ), which means we call it a polynomial

Classification by degree:
Once the expression is in standard form, we just look at the leading term, and the degree. So, the degree in this polynomial is $g^5$ , so $color(red)(5)$ .

The expression $-g^5+g^4-2g^3$ is a 5th degree polynomial

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