What is the difference between a constant and a coefficient?

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-12T20:35:00

A coefficient is the number in front of the letter, eg #3x^2# 3 is the coefficient.
A constant is just a number eg #y= 3x^2+7# 7 is the constant.