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Okay, so this question has a couple of parts, but they're all about the polynomial 5x minus 9x squared plus 3x to the 6th.
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So the first question asks us to identify the degree of each term.
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So i'm going to go ahead and we'll go ahead and box each of our terms.
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This 5x, negative 9x squared, and 3x to the 6.
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Now, the degree are each of the powers.
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And so the degree for this first one, even though it's not written, we are saying that's the same as x to the 1.
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So our degree for this first term is 1.
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And x to the 2, so our degree is 2, and the x to the 6.
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So our degree is 6.
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Now, that's the first part.
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Part a.
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Now, part b asks us to determine the leading term and coefficient.
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So the leading term is not necessarily our first term.
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What it really means is whatever has the highest degree.
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So notice the one with the highest degree happens to be our last term.
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It's a degree six.
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So that's what we're going to be worrying about in determining our polynomial...