Question

What is the degree of the given monomial $3mn$?

Answer 1

We know that the degree is the term with the greatest exponent and,

To find the degree of a monomial with more than one variable for the same term, just add the exponents for each variable to get the degree.

Here, the given monomial $3mn$ has two variables $m$ and $n$ where the power of both $m$ and $$n$ is $1$. Therefore, degree of the monomial $3mn$ is:

$1+1=2$ (Adding the exponents of both the variables)

Hence, the degree of the monomial $3mn$ is $2$.