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Is a quadratic polynomial a second-degree polynomial?
Yes.
At most how many unique roots will a fourth degree polynomial have?
4, the same as the degree of the polynomial.
Is a polynomial of degree zero is a constant term true or false?
True. A polynomial of degree zero is defined as a polynomial where the highest degree term has a degree of zero. This means that the polynomial is a constant term, as it does not contain any variables raised to a power greater than zero. Therefore, a polynomial of degree zero is indeed a constant term.
What is the relationship between the degree of a polynomial and the number of roots it has?
In answering this question it is important that the roots are counted along with their multiplicity. Thus a double root is counted as two roots, and so on. The degree of a polynomial is exactly the same as the number of roots that it has in the complex field. If the polynomial has real coefficients, then a polynomial with an odd degree has an odd number of roots up to the degree, while a polynomial of even degree has an even number of roots up to the degree. The difference between the degree and the number of roots is the number of complex roots which come as complex conjugate pairs.
What is a rational equation or rational function?
It is any function which can be written as the ratio of two polynomial functions.
