Posted by Jessi on Friday, October 12, 2007 at 10:50pm.
"poly" is many in Greek and "nomial" means number
so a polynomial is 'several terms'
In highschool mathematics, a polynomial is an expression made up of two or more terms, where each term has an exponent n, so that n is a whole number.
A "graph that is like an upside down V" would be a polynomial, and example would be
f(x) = -x^2 + 3x - 1
The following webpage lets you manipulate the coefficients for different functions to study the effects. Very interesting models.
http://id.mind.net/~zona/mmts/functionInstitute/polynomialFunctions/graphs/polynomialFunctionGraphs.html
write a polynomial function that has given zeros and has a leading coefficient of 1. 2,i,-i
a4b+ a2b3
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