How do you find the degree of polynomials?

Answer 1

First look at the degree of each term: this is the power of the variable. The highest such number, from all the terms in the polynomial is the degree of the polynomial.

Thus

x2 + 1/7*x + 3 has degree 2.

x + 7 - 2x3 + 0.8x5 has degree 5.

Answer 2

The degree of a polynomial is the highest degree of its terms. The degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of the variables that appear in it.

7x2y2 + 4x2 + 5y + 13 is a polynomial with four terms. The first term has a degree of 4, the second term has a degree of 2, the third term has a degree of 1 and the fourth term has a degree of 0. The polynomial has a degree of 4.