Prerequisites: C (2.0) or better in MAT 1033, or SAT Math score of 490 or better, or ACT Math score of 21 or better, or Elementary Algebra CPT score of 90 or better, or College-Level Math CPT score of 40 or better.
Course Description: The course meets for 3 hours per week for 15 weeks. Successful completion of the course merits 3 semester hours of credit and provides sufficient background for either Precalculus or Calculus that does not use trigonometry. There are typically four midterm exams plus a final. The final exam is cumulative and all multiple choice.
Text: Precalculus, Mathematics for Calculus, 4th Edition, by Stewart, Redlin, and Watson.
Chapter 1: Fundamentals (This chapter is not covered.)
Chapter 2: Functions (11-12 hours of lecture)
2.1: What is a function?
2.2: Graphs of Functions
2.3: Applied Functions: Variation
2.4: Average Rate of Change: Increasing and Decreasing Functions
2.5: Transformations of Functions
2.6: Extreme Values of Functions
2.7: Modeling with Functions
2.8: Combining Functions
2.9: One-to-One Functions and their Inverses
Chapter 3: Polynomials and Rational Functions (7-8 hours of lecture)
3.1: Polynomial Functions and their Graphs
3.2: Dividing Polynomials
3.3: Real Zeros of Polynomials
3.4: Complex Numbers
3.5: Complex Zeros and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
3.6: Rational Functions
Chapter 4: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (11-12 hours of lecture)
4.1: Exponential Functions
4.2: Logarithmic Functions
4.3: Laws of Logarithms
4.4: Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
4.5: Modeling with Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Chapter 8: Systems of Equations and Inequalities (5-6 hours of lecture)
8.2: Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables
8.8: Systems of Inequalities
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