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01:640:111 - Precalculus I

Precalculus I (2)

Prerequisite: 01:640:026 or appropriate performance on the placement test in mathematics. Corequisites: 01:640:011 for 01:640:111. This course with 01:640:112 covers the same material as 01:640:115, but at a slower pace. Students may not receive more that 4 normal credits for any combination of 01:640:111-112, and 115.

Algebraic expressions, algebraic equations, inequalities, functions, and graphing.

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SYLLABUS
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Lecture

Sections

Topics

Homework Problems

1

1.1

The Real Numbers; Begin Exponents and Radicals.

#16, 40, 42, 43, 50, 51, 55, 63, 76

1.2

#17, 31, 35, 83, 85, 87, 98, 100

2

1.2

Finish Exponents and Radicals.

# 12, 23, 25, 27, 28, 42, 47, 48, 67, 68, 76, 80, 81, 82, 102, 103

3

1.3

Algebraic Expressions; Begin Fractional Expressions.

#35, 41, 49, 52, 57, 58, 60, 65, 66, 67, 70, 81, 86, 90, 92, 93, 96, 101, 102, 115, 122

1.4

# 34, 35, 42, 45, 51, 55, 58

4

  

Catch up and Review

  

5

Exam 1 Covers Ch 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and half of Ch 1.4

6

1.4

Finish Fractional Expressions.

#67, 70, 73, 74, 83, 92, 93

7

1.5

Equations.

#21, 22, 29, 35, 38, 50, 51, 59, 62, 70, 75, 87, 90, 107, 108, 110, 113

8

1.7

Modeling with Equations.

# 13, 19, 25, 28, 34, 38, 41, 44, 53, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74

9

1.8

Inequalities.

# 17, 33, 35, 37, 41, 48, 61, 67, 70, 73, 75, 81, 86, 101, 121, 123

10

1.9

The Coordinate Plane; Graphs of Equations; Circles.

# 17, 18, 31, 36, 41, 52, 67, 69, 91, 92, 95, 99, 100, 105, 109, 111

11

Catch up and Review.

12

EXAM I covers other half of Ch 1.4 and Ch 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9

13

1.10

Lines.

#19, 26, 33, 42, 44, 47, 49, 54, 64, 80, 81, 83, 90, 92, 93

14

1.11

Solving Equations and Inequalities Graphically.

#5, 7, 10, 15, 17, 18, 22, 38, 39

15

2.1

Functions.

# 11, 12, 21, 25, 32, 33, 46, 49, 51, 53, 54, 63, 64, 65, 66, 79, 80, 81, 88, 90, 91, 92

16

2.2

Graphs of Functions; Getting Information from a Graph

#10, 17, 37, 38, 42, 43, 46, 49, 51, 55, 56, 70, 71, 74, 82

2.3

# 7, 8, 9, 31, 34, 37, 38

17

2.5

Linear Functions and Models; Transformation of Functions

#7, 12, 13, 18, 22, 28, 33, 40, 43, 49, 50

2.6

# 8, 13, 32, 33, 48, 49, 52, 66, 71, 73, 78, 86, 93

18

2.7

Combining Functions.

# 13, 14, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 53, 54, 65, 66, 75, 78, 82

19

2.8

One-to-One Functions and Their Inverses.

# 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 26, 27, 43, 45, 51, 59, 67, 69, 70, 72, 80, 87, 88

20

Catch up and Review.

21

EXAM II covers Ch 1.10, 1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8

22

pp 237-244

Modeling with Functions; Modeling Variation.

#3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30

1.12

#15, 17, 20, 24, 28, 37, 42, 47

23

3.1

Quadratic Functions and Models.

#15, 18, 30, 33, 35, 46, 51, 53, 55

24

3.2

Polynomial Functions.

#7, 8, 9-14, 18, 20, 31, 42, 47, 57, 58, 66, 74, 75, 87, 90

25

3.3

Dividing Polynomials.

#7, 18, 23, 34, 42, 47, 54, 64

26

3.6

Rational Functions.

#11, 25, 27, 28, 35, 43, 44, 54, 55, 79, 80, 87, 88

27

3.7

Polynomial and Rational Inequalities

#3, 7, 19, 27, 35, 37, 42, 47

28

Catch up and Review

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