You need to look at each term and find the degree by adding the exponents of each variable in it. The largest degree is the degree of the polynomial.
8x²
y has a degree of 3 (x has an exponent of 2, y has 1, and 2+1=3)
5xy has a degree of 2 (x has an exponent of 1, y has 1, and 1 + 1 = 2)
So,
degree = 3 The polynomial has 2 terms, so it's binomial ← classification
