"Convert the decimal number to a fraction by placing the decimal number over a power of ten. Since there is 1 number to the right of the decimal point, place the decimal number over 1 (10). Next, add the whole number to the left of the decimal.
x^2 in the function that you typed is x * x ( x multiplied by x). It represents a second degree because there are only 2 "x"s multiplied together. If there were 3 "x"s multiplied together, we would have x^3. Since the highest exponent in this function is 2 (in x^2), we call this function a 2nd degree polynomial.
