Question

1. what is the degree of the monomial 15x^3y^9? a) 12 b) 3 c) 9 d) 15

Answer 1

The answer is a twelve

Answer 2

Answer:

a) 12

Explanation:

The dregree of a monomial is calculated by adding up all of the exponents of it different components, includin the implicit degrees of the terms, when a exponent is not shown it is implicit that that exponent is 1, so in this case we have as exponents 3 and 9, after adding them up we get 12, so the degree of the monomial would be 12.