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What is a variable? A letter that represents an unknown real number What is a term? A number or a variable or a product of a number and variable...there can be exponents on the variables Can the exponents be negative? Examples of terms: 17 4 75 What is a coefficient? The numerical factor of a term What is a constant? Lesson 1 Polynomials Section 5.1 Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:08 AM Unit 3 Page 1

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Page 1: Lesson 1 Polynomials Section 5 - math8accel.weebly.com · Lesson 1 Polynomials ‐Section 5.1 Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:08 AM Unit 3 Page 1 . Lesson 1 - Intro to Polynomials Occurs

What is a variable?

‐ A letter that represents an unknown real number

What is a term?

‐ A number or a variable or a product of a number and variable...there can be 

exponents on the variables

        Can the exponents be negative?

Examples of terms:

17    4 75

What is a coefficient?

      The numerical factor of a term

What is a constant?

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       Occurs when a term is a number only

All of these things are used to create polynomials. 

Polynomials come in different flavors determined by the number of terms they posses;Monomials:

Binomials:

Trinomials:

Polynomials:

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What is the Degree of a Term?

The sum of the exponents on all variables of the term

What is the Degree of a polynomial? 

What is the leading term of a polynomial?

The term with the highest degree found in the polynomial

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What are like terms?  How do you tell if two terms are like terms?

Must contain two things:

Examples:

3 4

14 5

4

Which of the following are polynomials?

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Mickelson Page 139 #1,2 and Pg. 144 #10

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