Question

What is the degree of the monomial? -9

A 1
B -10
C -8
D 0

Answer 1

Answer:would the answer not correctly be 1?

Explanation:

Answer 2

recall that the degree of a polynomial or a monomial in this cases, comes from the term with the highest degree.

now, this is a monomial, and is just one term, its degree will come from the sum of all its variables' exponents, so we can see this one as,

`\bf -9\implies -9x^0\textit{ or }-9y^0\impliedby \textit{the exponent of the variable is }\stackrel{\stackrel{degree}{\downarrow }}{0}`

recall that anything raised to 0 is 1, except for 0 itself, so -9x⁰ is really -9*1 or -9.