Objective
To classify, add, and subtract polynomials
Adding Polynomials
In some cases, you can model a situation with an expression composed of monomials. A monomial is a real number, a variable, or a product of a real number and one or more variables with whole-number exponents. Here are some examples of monomials.
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Essential Understanding You can use monomials to form larger expressions called polynomials. Polynomials can be added and subtracted.
The degree of a monomial is the sum of the exponents of its variables. The degree of a nonzero constant is 0. Zero has no degree.
What is the degree of each monomial?
Why is the degree of a nonzero constant 0?
You can write a nonzero constant c as