Question

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Janie writes a polynomial expression using only one variable, x, with degree 3. Max writes a polynomial expression using only one variable, x, with degree 7.
What can you determine about the degree of the sum of Janie’s and Max’s polynomials?
What can you determine about the degree of the difference of Janie’s and Max’s polynomials?

Answer 1

Answer:

The sum of the polynomials is a 7th degree polynomial.

The difference of the polynomials is a 7th degree polynomial.

Step-by-step explanation:

Janie's polynomial is a 3rd degree with only x terms. Maybe she wrote:

f(x) = x^3

or maybe she was fancy and wrote:

f(x) =

x^3 + 2x^2 - 7x + 4

could be anything really, but the biggest exponent is 3.

Then Max does like:

g(x) = x^7

or

g(x) = x^7-x^4-3x+2

Whatever he made up, but the biggest exponent is 7.

So if they add or subtract their two polynomials, there's no x^7 in Janie's to add with the x^7 in Max's. MAYBE Max put some x^3 or x^2 or x or constants that might combine with the terms in Janie's.

Either way, anything that Max put in his polynomial that is a bigger power than 3 (4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th power) is just going to end up in the sum or difference.