document.write( "Question 141032: find the degree of the following polynomail $\"3x%5E2y%2B4x%5E5y%5E3-7x%5E4\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "The degree of a polynomial is the most number of \r\n" );
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document.write( "means\r\n" );
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document.write( "The first term has 3 variables multiplied together.\r\n" );
document.write( "The second term has 8 variables multiplied together.\r\n" );
document.write( "The third term has 4 variables multiplied together.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The largest of those is 8.\r\n" );
document.write( "So the degree of the polynomial is 8.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[A short way to count the number of variables multiplied\r\n" );
document.write( "toghether in a term is to just to add the exponents of \r\n" );
document.write( "the variables in that term.]\r\n" );
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