Location: H-108
Hours per Quarter:
60
Credits:
5
Textbook:
Plato Learning Interactive Mathematics "Intermediate
Algebra". The purchase of used Plato Learning IM textbooks
constitutes a violation of Plato's copyright. Textbooks must be
purchased through RTC's bookstore. Proof of purchase through RTC
is required to gain access to Interactive Mathematics.
Course content:
- Review of selected Beginning Algebra topics
- Factoring of polynomials
- Greatest common factor
- Factoring quadratic forms
- Factoring of special forms
- Quadratic Equations
- Solution methods: factoring, quadratic formula, square root
property
- Complex numbers
- Graphing
- Applications
- Rational expressions
- Simplification, greatest common factor
- Multiplication and division
- Addition and subtraction, least common multiple
- Roots, radicals, rational exponents
- Simplifying expressions containing roots
- Arithmetic operations with roots
- Conversions between radical expressions and exponential
form, rational exponents
- Arithmetic operations with radical expressions expressed in
exponential form
- Functions
- Definition of a function, graph of a function
- Arithmetic operations with functions
- Function composition, inverse functions
- Applications
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