Question

What is the degree of the given monomial $-x{y}^2$?

• A. $2$
• B. $3$
• C. $4$
• D. none

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$3$

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 $-x{y}^2$ has two variables $x$ and $y$ where the power of $x$ is $1$ and power of $y$ is $2$. Therefore degree of the monomial $-x{y}^2$ is:

$1+2=3$ (Adding the exponents of both the variables)

Hence, the degree of the monomial $-x{y}^2$ is $3$.