document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=134846>Question 134846</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hi, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "       Can you help me with this math problem? \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "State the degree of the polynomial equation.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4(x + 8)^2(x - 8)^3 = 0 </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Since this is an equation in only one variable, the degree is the terms with the highest order exponent in it.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You could expand the equation (multiply it out). But you can also 'just look' and figure it out without doing all the multiplication.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Look at the term <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When you expand that, what will be the highest exponent of x? Right, it will be x^2\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now look at the last term<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When you expand that, what will be the highest exponent of x? Right again, x^3\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since the terms are multplied together, you have an x^2 term times a x^3 term.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "So what is the exponent that is the result of that? Right yet again, x^5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So the degree will be 5<BR>\n" );
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