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Chapter 3: Polynomial Functions

Three of the families of functions studied thus far – constant, linear and quadratic – belong to a much larger group of functions called polynomials. We begin our formal study of general polynomials with a definition and some examples.

Adapted from Precalculus, 3rd corrected edition, by Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager (stitz-zeager.com), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition. License: CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0.

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