<span>Combine like terms. ...Drop all of the constants and coefficients. ...Put the terms in decreasing order of their exponents. ...Find the power of the largest term. ...Identify this number as the degree of the polynomial. ...<span>Know that the degree of a constant is zero.</span></span>
The distributive property....ur basically multiplying the number outside of the parenthesis by everything in the parenthesis....to get rid of the parenthesis.
