Title:
Beginning and intermediate algebra : an integrated approach
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole, 2002
Physical Description:
1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
ISBN:
9780534384852
General Note:
Accompanies text with the same title : (QA152.3 G87 2000)
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Summary
Summary
BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA is the ideal text for professors who want to eliminate the significant overlap of topics found in separate beginning and intermediate algebra texts. This best-selling text helps students develop the ability to synthesize and conceptualize material by thoroughly integrating coverage of graphing and problem solving without sacrificing manipulative skills. Students appreciate the non-technical writing and the Authors' Notes in worked examples, while instructors appreciate the realistic applications, mathematical accuracy, and the flexibility Gustafson/Frisk affords.
Table of Contents
| 1 Real Numbers And Their Basic Properties |
| Real Numbers and Their Graphs |
| Fractions |
| Exponents and Order of Operations |
| Adding and Subtracting Real Numbers |
| Multiplying and Dividing Real Numbers |
| Algebraic Expressions |
| Properties of Real Numbers |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 1 Test |
| 2 Equations And Inequalities |
| Solving Basic Equations |
| Solving More Equations |
| Simplifying Expressions to Solve Equations |
| Introduction to Problem Solving |
| Motion and Mixture Problems |
| Formulas |
| Solving Inequalities |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 2 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 3 Graphing And Solving Systems Of Equations And Inequalities |
| The Rectangular Coordinate System |
| Graphing Linear Equations |
| Solving Systems of Equations by Graphing |
| Solving Systems of Equations by Substitutions |
| Solving Systems of Equations by Addition |
| Applications of Systems of Equations |
| Systems of Linear Inequalities |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 3 Test |
| 4 Polynomials |
| Natural-Number Exponents |
| Zero and Negative Integral Exponents |
| Scientific Notation |
| Polynomials |
| Adding and Subtracting Polynomials |
| Multiplying Polynomials |
| Dividing Polynomials by Monomials |
| Dividing Polynomials by Polynomials |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 4 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 5 Factoring Polynomials |
| Factoring out the Greatest Common Factor: Factoring by Grouping |
| Factoring the Difference of Two Squares |
| Factoring Trinomials with Lead Coefficients of 1 |
| Factoring General Trinomials |
| Factoring the Sum and Difference of Two Cubes |
| Summary of Factoring Techniques |
| Solving Equations by Factoring |
| Problem Solving |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 5 Test |
| 6 Proportions And Rational Expressions |
| Ratios |
| Proportions and Similar Triangles |
| Simplifying Rational Expressions |
| Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions |
| Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions |
| Complex Fractions |
| Solving Equations That Contain Rational Expressions |
| Applications of Equations That Contain Rational Expressions |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 6 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 7 More Equations, Inequalities, And Factoring |
| Review of Equations and Inequalities |
| Equations Containing Absolute Values |
| Inequalities Containing Absolute Values |
| Review of Factoring |
| Review of Rational Expressions |
| Synthetic Division |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 7 Test |
| 8 Writing Equations Of Lines, Functions, And Variation |
| A Review of the Rectangular Coordinate System |
| Slope of a Nonvertical Line |
| Writing Equations of Lines |
| A Review of Functions |
| Graphs of Nonlinear Functions |
| Variation |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 8 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 9 Radicals And Rational Exponents |
| Radical Expressions |
| Applications of Radicals |
| Rational Exponents |
| Simplifying and Combining Radical Expressions |
| Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions |
| Radical Equations |
| Complex Numbers |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 9 Test |
| 10 Quadratic Functions, Inequalities, And Algebra Of Functions |
| Solving Quadratic Equations by completing the square |
| Solving Quadratic Equations by the Quadratic Formula |
| The Discriminant and Equations that can be Written in Quadratic Form |
| Graphs of Quadratic Functions |
| Quadratic and Other Nonlinear Inequalities |
| Algebra and Composition of Functions |
| Inverses of Functions |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 10 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 11 Exponential And Logarithmic Functions |
| Exponential Functions |
| Base-e Exponential Functions |
| Logarithmic Functions |
| Base-e Logarithms |
| Properties of Logarithms |
| Exponential and Logarithmic Equations |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 11 Test |
| 12 Conic sections and more graphing |
| The Circle and the Parabola |
| The Ellipse |
| The Hyperbola |
| Piecewise-Defined Functions and the Greatest Integer Function |
| Projects |
| Chapter Summary |
| Chapter 12 Test |
| Cumulative Review Exercises |
| 13 More On Systems Of Equations And Inequalities |
| Solutions of Two Equations and Two Variables |
| Solutions of Three Equati |
