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REAs Problem Solvers is a series of useful, practical, and informative study guides. Each title in the series is complete step-by-step solution guide. The Pre-Calculus Problem Solver enables students to solve difficult problems by showing them step-by-step solutions to Pre-Calculus problems. The Problem Solvers cover material ranging from the elementary to the advanced and make excellent review books and textbook companions. The Pre-Calculus Problem Solver is the perfect resource for any class, any exam, and any problem!
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This highly useful reference provides thorough coverage of first-year college math, including algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their graphs. Includes solutions of linear and quadratic equations, analytic geometry, elementary statistics, differentiation and integration, determinants, matrices, and systems of equations. Problem-solving strategies are included at the beginning of every chapter for each topic covered.
About the Author
Dennis Smolarski, Ph.D., is associate professor of mathematics at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.
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Table of Contents
Chapter No. Page No.
SECTION 1: ALGEBRA
1 THE NUMBER SYSTEM
2 DEFINITIONS AND NOTATION OF SETS
AND SET OPERATIONS
3 FUNDAMENTAL ALGEBRAIC LAWS AND
OPERATIONS WITH NUMBERS
4 FUNDAMENTAL ALGEBRAIC LAWS AND
OPERATIONS WITH ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
5 FACTORING EXPRESSIONS
6 EXPONENT, RADICAL AND POWER
7 FUNCTIONS AND GRAPHS
8 RATIOS, PROPORTIONS AND VARIATIONS
9 EQUATIONS AND GRAPHS
10 LINEAR FUNCTIONS AND EQUATIONS
11 SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
12 QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS AND GRAPHS
13 QUADRATIC EQUATIONS AND SYSTEMS OF
EQUATIONS INVOLVING QUADRATICS
14 EQUATIONS OF DEGREE GREATER THAN 2
15 THEORY OF EQUATIONS
16 INEQUALITIES AND GRAPHS
17 PROGRESSIONS AND SEQUENCES
18 MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION
19 THE BINOMIAL THEOREM
20 LOGARITHMS AND EXPONENTIALS
21 PERMUTATIONS
22 COMBINATIONS
23 PROBABILITY
24 VECTORS, MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS
25 DETERMINANTS, MATRICES AND
SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
26 PARTIAL FRACTIONS
27 SERIES
SECTION 2: PLANE TRIGONOMETRY
28 ANGLES AND ARCS
29 DEFINITIONS OF THE
TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
30 TABLES AND LOGARITHMS OF THE
TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
31 PROPERTIES, GRAPHS AND SPECIAL VALUES
OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
32 TRIGONOMETRIC IDENTITIES AND FORMULAS
33 SOLVING TRIANGLES
34 INVERSE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
35 TRIGONOMETRIC EQUATIONS
36 COMPLEX NUMBERS
37 THE HYPERBOLIC AND INVERSE
HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS
SECTION 3: ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
38 COORDINATES
39 STRAIGHT LINES AND FAMILIES
OF STRAIGHT LINES
40 CIRCLES
41 PARABOLAS
42 ELLIPSES
43 HYPERBOLAS
44 TRANSFORMATION OF COORDINATES
45 POLAR COORDINATES
46 PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS
47 SPACE-RELATED PROBLEMS
SECTION 4: INTRODUCTION TO CALCULUS
48 LIMITS
49 CONTINUITY
50 D - FUNCTION
51 THE DERIVATIVE
52 DIFFERENTIATION OF ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONS
53 APPLICATIONS
54 INTEGRAL
SECTION 5
55 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
INDEX