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Question
Which of the following expression are polynomial? Justify your answer:
`1/(x + 1)`
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Solution
`1/(x + 1) = (x + 1)^-1`
Here, the power of x is not a whole number.
Hence, `1/(x + 1)` is not a polynomial.
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