Answer:
"Evaluation" mostly means "simplifying an expression down to a single numerical value". Sometimes you will be given a numerical expression, where all you have to do is simplify; that is more of an order-of-operations kind of question
example: So let we are given a polynomial function as:
[tex]f(x)=x^4+3x^3-x^2+6[/tex] and we are aksed to evaluate this polynomial at [tex]x=-3[/tex]
Then the value of the polynomial will be:
[tex]f(-3)=(-3)^4+3\times (-3)^3-(-3)^2+6\\\\f(-3)=81+3\times (-27)-9+6\\\\f(-3)=81-81-9+6\\\\f(-3)=-3[/tex]
Hence on evaluating the polynomial function f(x) at [tex]x=-3[/tex] we get the value of the polynomial function as [tex]-3[/tex].
