Examples of this are:
2 and 
2 and 
4 and 
I'm guessing you have a work sheet going along with this which has actual images of containers. I've attached an example - if you can post the actual work sheet you're referring to I can edit this answer to correctly reflect your specific question.
Answer:
The value of the test statistic is 
Step-by-step explanation:
The null hypothesis is:

The alternate hypotesis is:

Our test statistic is:

In which X is the sample mean,
is the null hypothesis value,
is the standard deviation and n is the size of the sample.
In this problem:

So



The value of the test statistic is 
The degree of a polynomial is the highest power of its terms.
The power of a term is the sum of the powers of all the variables in a term.
A polynomial is written starting with the greatest power in standard form.
In the first case, the power of the first term is 3, the power of the second is 3 (2 from x + 1 from y) but the power of x has decreased so it is the second term, and then so on.
In the second case, the power is starting form 2 and then increasing to 3. This is incorrect.
Therefore, Marcus' suggestion is correct.
12 / 3 so the answer would be 4