This course briefly reviews the arithmetic processes, including fractions and percentages. It then focuses on the manipulation of first degree algebraic expressions involving multiple variables, graphing, and function development from verbally described situations. Problem applications will be drawn from business and will include checking accounts, payroll, simple and compound interest, discounts, markups, rule of 78's, balance sheet and income statements, inventory, depreciation, and dividends. This course is primarily intended for business, life science, or social science majors. Topics include functions, matrix algebra, linear programming, and an introduction to probability and counting techniques.
Emphasis is on applications.
The course may include other topics, such as statistics, when time permits. For business, life science, and social science majors. Derivatives, integrals, and their applications are included with attention restricted to algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Two years of high school algebra and one year of high school geometry and placement exam. Topics in algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and elementary functions designed for the students who intend to take the calculus sequence.