How do you write the coefficient of the term -7pq?

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How do you write the coefficient of the term -7pq?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-19T19:03:05

It depends!

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If both $p$ and $q$ are variables, then the coefficient is $-7$

If $p$ is a constant and $q$ a variable then the coefficient of $q$ is $-7p$

If $q$ is a constant and $p$ a variable then the coefficient of $p$ is $-7q$

If both $p$ and $q$ are constants then we could say that the coefficient of the $0$ th power of some variable $x^0$ (say) is $-7pq$ , but we would usually simply describe $-7pq$ as a constant term.

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