The wildfire burning near Fort McMurray on May 1, 2016. On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.
A polynomial in. x is defined as a finite sum of terms of the form axn, where a is a real number and. the exponent nis a whole number. For each term,a is called the coefficient, and n. is called the degree of the term. For example: If a polynomial has exactly one term, it is categorized as a monomial. A two-. term polynomial is called a binomial, and a three-term polynomial is called a. trinomial. Usually the terms of a polynomial are written in descending order. according to degree. In descending order, the highest-degree term is written first.
The words three times tell us the first term is a number multiplied by three. In this expression, we don't need a multiplication sign or parenthesis. Phrases like a number or the number tell us our expression has an unknown quantity, called a variable. In algebra, we use letters to represent variables.the product of a number and the same number less 3 x(x  3). The words the product of tell us we're going to multiply a number times the number less 3.e call these letters variables because the numbers they represent can varythat is, we can substitute one or more numbers for the letters in the expression. Coefficients Coefficients are the number part of the terms with variables. In 3x2 + 2y + 7xy + 5, the coefficient of the first term is 3.