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What is a variable?
‐ A letter that represents an unknown real number
What is a term?
‐ A number or a variable or a product of a number and variable...there can be
exponents on the variables
Can the exponents be negative?
Examples of terms:
17 4 75
What is a coefficient?
The numerical factor of a term
What is a constant?
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Occurs when a term is a number only
All of these things are used to create polynomials.
Polynomials come in different flavors determined by the number of terms they posses;Monomials:
Binomials:
Trinomials:
Polynomials:
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What is the Degree of a Term?
The sum of the exponents on all variables of the term
What is the Degree of a polynomial?
What is the leading term of a polynomial?
The term with the highest degree found in the polynomial
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What are like terms? How do you tell if two terms are like terms?
Must contain two things:
Examples:
3 4
14 5
4
Which of the following are polynomials?
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Mickelson Page 139 #1,2 and Pg. 144 #10
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