College Algebra Essentials
ISBN: 9780136154341 | 0136154344
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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The Eighth Edition of this highly dependable book retains its best features--accuracy, precision, depth, and abundant exercise sets--while substantially updating its content and pedagogy. Striving to teach mathematics as a way of life, Sullivan provides understandable, realistic applications that are consistent with the abilities of most readers. Chapter topics include Graphs; Polynomial and Rational Functions; Conics; Systems of Equations and Inequalities; Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; Counting and Probability; and more. For individua... MORE
| Review | |
| Real Numbers | |
| Algebra Essentials | |
| Geometry Essentials | |
| Polynomials | |
| Factoring Polynomials | |
| Synthetic Division | |
| Rational Expressions | |
| nth Roots; Rational Exponents | |
| Equations and Inequalities | |
| Linear Equations | |
| Quadratic Equations | |
| Complex Numbers; Quadratic Equations in the Complex Number System | |
| Radical Equations; Equations Quadratic in Form; Factorable Equations | |
| Solving Inequalities | |
| Equations and Inequalities Involving Absolute Value | |
| Problem Solving: Interest, Mixture, Uniform Motion, and Constant Rate Job Applications | |
| Graphs | |
| The Distance and Midpoint Formulas | |
| Graphs of Equations in Two Variables; Intercepts; Symmetry | |
| Lines | |
| Circles | |
| Variation | |
| Functions and Their Graphs | |
| Functions | |
| The Graph of a Function | |
| Properties of Functions | |
| Library of Functions; Piecewise-defined Functions | |
| Graphing Techniques: Transformations | |
| Mathematical Models: Building Functions | |
| Linear and Quadratic Functions | |
| Linear Functions and Their Properties | |
| Building Linear Functions from Data | |
| Quadratic Functions and Their Properties | |
| Quadratic Models; Building Quadratic Functions from Data | |
| Inequalities Involving QuadraticFunctions | |
| Polynomial and Rational Functions | |
| Polynomial Functions and Models | |
| Properties of Rational Functions | |
| The Graph of a Rational Function | |
| Polynomial and Rational Inequalities | |
| The Real Zeros of a Polynomial Function | |
| Complex Zeros: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra | |
| Exponential and Logarithmic Functions | |
| Composite Functions | |
| One-to-One Functions; Inverse Functions | |
| Exponential Functions | |
| Logarithmic Functions | |
| Properties of Logarithms | |
| Logarithmic and Exponential Equations | |
| Compound Interest | |
| Exponential Growth and Decay Models; Newtonrsquo;s Law; Logistic Growth and Decay Models | |
| Building Exponential, Logarithmic, and Logistic Functions from Data | |
| Systems of Equations and Inequalities | |
| Systems of Linear Equations: Substitution and Elimination | |
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