Need some pre-cal . will mark best answer as brainliest. 5 and 6 are also possible answers, they just didn’t fit in the photo.

Judging by the plot, the polynomial has 2 roots (at -1 and 2), so its degree is at least 2. But if it were 2, we'd expect a parabolic shape, but that's not the case here. In fact, the root at -1 has even multiplicity, which means the degree of the polynomial should be at least 3. But again, you're probably familiar enough with the shape of a cubic function to know that the degree would be higher than that, so at minimum, I think your answer of 4 is correct.

We can use the tools of calculus to verify this. We know of two extrema (a max at -1 and a min between 0 and 1) and one saddle point, which is enough to determine that there are at least 3 critical points, which means the derivative of the function is at least of degree 3, which would in turn mean the original function would have degree at least 4.

the answer is 1 becuz if it were 1.0 that would rip apart the entire so ya. : )

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