SOLUTION: What is a cofficient? What is a constant?

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Question 368207: What is a cofficient? What is a constant?
Answer by mananth(16949)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
co-efficients are numbers multiplied by a variable
3x, 4ab,6t^2 12abc,16a^b^2c^2
the numbers before the variables are all coefficients. The value of the whole term depenmds on the value of the variable.
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constants are numbers. They have a fixed value.
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