The wildfire burning near Fort McMurray on May 1, 2016. On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.
A polynomial in. x is defined as a finite sum of terms of the form axn, where a is a real number and. the exponent nis a whole number. For each term,a is called the coefficient, and n. is called the degree of the term. For example: If a polynomial has exactly one term, it is categorized as a monomial. A two-. term polynomial is called a binomial, and a three-term polynomial is called a. trinomial. Usually the terms of a polynomial are written in descending order. according to degree. In descending order, the highest-degree term is written first.
Example 1. 5 x 3 â 4 x 2 + 7 x â 8. The variable, in this case x, is also called the argument of the polynomial. Here is a polynomial with argument t : t 2 â5 t + 1. When we write a polynomial, the style is to begin with the highest exponent and go to the lowest. 4, 3, 2, 1. (For the general form of a polynomial, see Problem 6 below.). 6. The degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of all the variables in that term. In functions of a single variable, such as x, the degree of a term is simply the exponent.