Please help with these problems?

Question

The first one is -20x^10 and the second is 6x^6y^7 Find the degree of the term.

Answer 1

Hi,

The degree of a term is the total of the exponents of all the variables.

For -20x^10, the degree is 10. It's the only exponent on a variable.

For 6x^6y^7, the degree is 6 + 7 or 13, from the x and y exponents.

For a term like 25, the degree is zero because there are no exponents on variables to add.

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

The degree of the term is the sum of the exponents:

for -20x^10 it's 10
for 6•x^6•y^7 it's 13