SOLUTION: I'm trying to put this polynomial in standard form: y-7y^3+15y^8. I started to reorder it and got 15y^8-7y^3+y. Can I subtract 7y^3 from 15y^8 and get 8y^5? That would make my solu

SOLUTION: I'm trying to put this polynomial in standard form: y-7y^3+15y^8. I started to reorder it and got 15y^8-7y^3+y. Can I subtract 7y^3 from 15y^8 and get 8y^5? That would make my solu

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Question 271377: I'm trying to put this polynomial in standard form: y-7y^3+15y^8. I started to reorder it and got 15y^8-7y^3+y. Can I subtract 7y^3 from 15y^8 and get 8y^5? That would make my solution 8y^5-y. Am I right?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

No, no, no! A thousand times NO!

Just for the sake of argument, let's assign

the value 2. By your theory:

Not in my math classroom, thank you very much.

The only thing you could possibly do with:

would be to factor out a

, leaving you with:

John

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