Which of the following is a monomial?

Question

Which of the following is a monomial?

Choose one answer.

A. 12c
 

B. c2 - 16
 

C. c2 + c + 6
 

D. c3 + 4c2 - 12c + 7

Answer 1

The "Mon" in "monomial" means one, so they are looking for an expression that consists of just one term, which in this case would be A.  A binomial would have 2 terms, and a trinomial 3 terms.  After that, we typically just say polynomial, which means many terms.