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What is the leading coefficient in the following expression: five π to the fourth plus two π squared plus three? What exactly is the leading coefficient?
The leading coefficient is the number placed before the variable with the highest power.
We have two options. We have five π to the fourth plus two π squared. Which of these has the highest power? That would be five times π to the fourth; π to the fourth has a higher power than π squared. And the number placed before the π to the fourth power is a five. Its coefficient π to the fourth power has a coefficient of five, a constant of five. Our leading coefficient in this expression would be five.
