The following expressions are polynomials? Justify your answer:

$\frac{1}{x+1}$

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$\frac{1}{x+1}=(x+1)^{-1}$ which cannot be reduced to an expression in which the exponent of the variable $x$ have only whole numbers in each of its terms.

So, this algebraic expression is not a polynomial.

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