This self-teaching brush-up course is designed for students who need more math background before taking calculus, or who are preparing for a standardized exam such as the GRE or GMAT.
Author(s): Barbara Lee Bleau
Edition: 3
Publisher: Barron's
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 364
City: New York
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Contents
Preface
1 Signed Numbers
2 Grouping Symbols and Their Removal
3 Solving First-Degree Equations
4 A Special Type of Equation: The Fractional Equation
5 Another Special Type of Equation: The Literal Equation
6 Applied Problems
7 Positive Integral Exponents
8 Negative Exponents
9 Division of Powers
10 Review of Fractions: Addition and Subtraction
11 Review of Fractions: Multiplication and Division; Complex Fractions
12 Square Roots and Radicals
13 Fractional Exponents
14 Simplifying Expressions with Fractional Exponents
15 Additional Practice with Exponents
16 Multiplication of Monomials and Polynomials
17 Division of Polynomials
18 Factoring Polynomials
19 Factoring a Special Binomial
20 Factoring (Continued)
21 Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring
22 Solving Second-Degree Equations - Quadratic Formula
23 Graphing Linear Equations in Two Variables
24 Graphing Quadratic Equations
25 Functions
26 Solving Systems of Equations
27 Solving Systems of Equations (Continued)
28 Solving Inequalities - First-Degree
29 Solving Quadratic Inequalities
30 Logarithms
31 Right Triangles
Answers to Exercises
Index
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