Week 1 - Chapter P

Introduction

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

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 :

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Pages 12 - 20

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• 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 :

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Pages 24-31

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• 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)

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• 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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