If f(x) = 2x^5 - x^4 + x^2 - 3, and g(x) is a polynomial such that the degree of f(x) + g(x) is 8, then what is the degree of g(x)?
g(x) would have to be of degree 8 for the sum of the two to be degree 8 ( since f(x) is only degree 5)