 This video is called standard form of polynomials. Basically standard form of polynomials is putting your final answer in what's considered a proper form or a standard form. It's just to put your answer so it kind of looks the best and it can stay consistent among everybody. And basically the rule of putting something in standard form or proper form is when the degrees of the monomials decrease from left to right. So basically you're looking at the exponents. 2x to the first, 2x to the third, a negative 7x squared, a 3x to the fourth and a constant. So for them to decrease from left to right you start by choosing the term that has the highest exponent. So in this case a positive 3x to the fourth would be listed first. Then so that one is used. Then would come the positive 2x to the third followed by the negative 7x squared. Now this 2x is really 2x to the first so that would become next and then the only one we haven't used yet is the plus 4, the constant. If there's a number that doesn't have a variable with it the constant will always come last. Let's try looking at this one we have variables of q. It looks like we've got exponents of 4, 11, 2 and a constant. Always pick the term with the highest exponent first. So we have negative 3, q to the 11th. Second would come the positive 10q to the fourth. Then a positive 2q squared and finally finished up with the minus 28. So this is in standard form because looking from left to right the exponents start at the biggest and get to their smallest.