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THS Poly Vocab
Polynomial Vocabulary - Chapter 8
Question | Answer |
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What is a monomial? | a real number, a variable, or a product of a real number and one or more variables with whole number exponents. |
What is a degree of a monomial? | The sum of the exponents of the variables in a monomial. |
What is a polynomial? | A monomial or sum of monomials. |
What is the standard form of a polynomial? | The degrees of monomial terms in order from greatest to least. |
What is the degree of a polynomial? | One variable is the same as the degree of the monomial with the greatest exponent. |
What is a binomial? | A polynomial with exactly two terms. |
What is a trinomial? | A polynomial with exactly three terms. |
What is a perfect square trinomial? | A polynomial that is the result of squaring a binomial. |
What is the difference of two squares? | A polynomial (a^2-b^2) that results from multiplying (a+b)(a-b). |
What does it mean to factor by grouping? | The process of grouping terms in pairs, factoring a GCF, and looking for common binomial factors. |