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McGraw Hill Integrated II, 2012

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1. Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

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Exercise 49 Page 11

The degree of a polynomial is the highest exponent of a variable.

Quintic polynomial

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We want to classify the given polynomial by degree and by number of terms. Consider the given polynomial.

- 2x^5-x^2+5x-8 We can see above that the highest exponent of the polynomial is 5 and it has four terms. Therefore, it is a quintic polynomial.

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