How do you identify the terms in the polynomial expression, $6 x^{3} - 5 x + 2$ $6x^3-5x+2$ and give the degree of each term?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-29T19:42:45

$3$ $3 " "$ terms

Terms in an expression are separated from each other by
$+ or -$ $+ or -$ signs as long as the $+ and -$ $+ and -$ signs are not:

$\to$ $rarr" "$ in a bracket
$\to$ $rarr" "$ in a fraction
$\to$ $rarr " "$ under a root

in which case they do not count.

The expression $6 x^{3} - 5 x + 2$ $color(red)(6x^3)color(blue)(-5x)color(forestgreen)(+2)$ is a trinomial and has 3 separate terms

$6 x^{3}$ $color(red)(6x^3)$ is a third degree term

$- 5 x$ $color(blue)(-5x)$ is a term of the 1st degree

$+ 2$ $color(forestgreen)(+2)$ is the constant term which does not have a variable.
$" "$ It is a term of degree 0.

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