Week 1 - Chapter P

Introduction

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Quiz 1

*You must have Scientific Notebook to read and do quizzes*

 

Introduction:

Directions:

1. Go to the Disscussion board
2. Write a one-screen introduction of yourself. Tell us something about yourself, your interest(s) in this course, your background as it relates to the course, your future career goals.
3. Then respond to at least one other person's introduction.

 

 

Section 1 :

Read:

Pages 1-8

View:

*If you are having trouble viewing the videos below, please refer to the alternate forms of viewing under the Using Technology section on the Syllabus page*

• Introduction to real numbers
• Order real numbers
• Identify inequalities
• Interval Notation
• Find absolute value
• Find absolute value
• Identify variable expressions
• Define term, coefficient, variable
• Evaluate variable expressions
• Apply properties of the real numbers
• Find the prime factorization of a number

Do Exercises:

Page 9 - # 7-37, 39-63

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Section 2 :

Read:

Pages 12 - 20

View:

• Simplify exponential expressions
• Use properties of exponents
• Use properties of radicals
• Simplify radical expressions
• Add and subtract radical expressions
• Rationalize numerators and denominators of rational expressions
• Rationalize numerators and denominators of rational expressions
• Simplify expressions with rational exponents
• Write exponential expressions as radical expressions and radical expressions as exponential expressions

Do Exercises:

Page 21 - # 1-26, 33-53, 55-61

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Section 3 :

Read:

Pages 24-31

View:

• Identify polynomials
• Write polynomials in standard form
• Add or subtract polynomials
• Multiply two polynomials
• Multiply polynomials that have special products
• Multiply polynomials that have special products
• Factor a monomial from a polynomial
• Factor completely
• Factor the difference of two perfect squares
• Factor perfect-square trinomials
• Factor the sum or the difference of two cubes
• Factor trinomials of the form
• Factor trinomials of the form
• Choose the best factoring technique
• Factor by grouping

Do Exercises:

Page 32, #21-145

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Section 4 :

Read:

Pages 37 (study example 1)

View:

• Identify domain and range
• Simplify rational expressions
• Add and subtract rational expressions
• Multiply rational expressions
• Simplify complex fractions
• Determine the difference quotient

Do Exercises:

Page 44, #1-7

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Section 5 :

Read:

Pages 47-53

View:

• Plot points on the rectangular coordinate system
• Use the Distance Formula to find the distance between two points
• Find the midpoint of a line segment
• Write equations of circles

Do Exercises:

Page 54, #1-19, 41-49, 55-67

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Quiz 1:

Submit Quiz 1 (10 points)

Go to the Quizzes section

This quiz will check your progress in the course and be sure that you are using the correct techniques to solve problems. The problems appearing on this quiz are similar to the problems you solved from the text and you should not have any difficulty with these problems if you understood the material covered in the text. All quizzes are open book but exams in the testing centers are not open book.

• Use inequalities and interval notation to describe a set.
• Evaluate quantities with your calculator.
• Factor expressions completely.
• Find the midpoint and distance between points.
• Find the equation of a circle or the center and radius of a circle.

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