Intermediate Algebra A Text/Workbook

by McKeague, Charles P.

• ISBN13: 9780495826750
• ISBN10: 0495826758
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-29
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Pat McKeague's eighth edition of INTEMEDIATE ALGEBRA is the book for the modern users like you. Like its predecessors, the eighth edition is clear, concise, and patient in explaining the concepts. This new edition contains hundreds of new and updated examples and applications, a redesign that includes cleaner graphics and images (some from Google Earth) that allow you to see the connection between mathematics and your world. This includes references to contemporary topics like gas prices and some of today's most forward thinking companies like Google.

Table of Contents

Basic Properties And Definitions

Fundamental Definitions and Notation

Sets

The Real Numbers

Simple and Compound Inequalities

Properties of Real Numbers

Arithmetic with Real Numbers

Recognizing Patterns

Equations And Inequalities In One Variable

Linear Equations in One Variable

Formulas

Applications

Linear Inequalities in One Variable

Equations with Absolute Value

Inequalities Involving Absolute Value

Equations And Inequalities In Two Variables

Paired Data and the Rectangle Coordinate System

The Slope of a Line

The Equation of a Line

Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

Introduction to Functions

Function Notation

Algebra and Composition with Functions

Variation

Systems Of Linear Equations And Inequalities

Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables

Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables

Introduction to Determinants

Cramer's Rule

Applications

Systems of Linear Inequalities

Exponents And Polynomials

Properties of Exponents

Polynomials, Sums, and Differences

Multiplication of Polynomials

The Greatest Common Factor and Factoring by Grouping

Factoring Trinomials

Special Factoring

Factoring: A General Review

Solving Equations by Factoring

Rational Expressions And Rational Functions

Basic Properties and Reducing to Lowest Terms

Division of Polynomials and Difference Quotients

Multiplication and Division of Rational Expressions

Addition and Subtraction of Rational Expressions

Complex Fractions

Equations Involving Rational Expressions

Applications

Rational exponents and roots

Rational Exponents

More Expressions Involving Rational Exponents

Simplified Form for Radicals

Addition and Subtraction of Radical Expressions

Multiplication and Division of Radical Expressions

Equations with Radicals

Complex Numbers

Quadratic Functions

Completing the Square

The Quadratic Formula

Additional Items Involving Solutions to Equations

Equations Quadratic in Form

Graphing Parabolas

Quadratic Inequalities

Basic Properties And Definitions

Exponential Functions

The Inverse of a Function

Logarithms Are Exponents

Properties of Logarithms

Common Logarithms and Natural Logarithms

Exponential Equations and Change of Base

Conic Sections

The Circle

Ellipses and Hyperbolas

Second-Degree Inequalities and Nonlinear Systems

Appendixes

One Hundred Addition Facts

One Hundred Multiplication Facts

Solution to Selected Practice Problems

Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems, and Chapter Tests

Index

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