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5.1
Monomials
Question | Answer |
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What is a monomial? | A number, a variable, or the product of a number and one or more variables |
What is a constant? | Monomials that contain no variables |
What is a coefficient | The numerical factor of a monomial or term. (The number in front of the variables) |
What is the degree of a monomial? | The sum of the exponents of its variables. |
What is a power (or exponential expression)? | An expression of the form x^n |
What is Scientific Notation? | A short hand way to write really large and really small numbers |
In Scientific Notation the exponent is positive if . . . | The original number was greater than it's scientific notation (the decimal is moved to the left) |
In Scientific Notation the exponent is negative if . . . | The original number wis less that it's scientific notation (the decimal is moved to the right) |