How do you find the coefficient of the cubic term?

Question

5x³-4x²+2x+3

Answer 1

The coefficient of the cubic term is the number of x³ 's and there are 5 of them.  There are other coefficients.

The other coefficients are -4, 2 and I almost said 3.  I guess 3 is the coefficient of the xº term.  x raised to the zero power is one, so 3x⁰ always is 3.  Since it is always 3, it is called the constant term in this expression.