LEADER 00000cam 2200385 a 4500 001 ocm45855832 003 OCoLC 005 20141231171052.0 008 010213t20012001nyua 001 0 eng d 010 2001265394 015 GBA1-72288 020 0471378232 (pbk.) 035 491144 040 ORX|cORX|dDLC|dUKM|dXY4|dUtOrBLW|erda 049 JFNA 082 00 512/.1|221 092 512.1|bSLA 100 1 Slavin, Stephen L. 245 10 Precalculus :|ba self-teaching guide /|cSteve Slavin, Ginny Crisonino. 264 1 New York :|bJohn Wiley,|c[2001] 264 4 |c©2001 300 vi, 216 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 505 0 Basics: Exponents -- Polynomials -- Rational exponents and radicals -- Factoring -- Basic geometry -- Applications -- Functions: Definition of a function -- Operations on functions -- Composite functions -- Inverse functions -- Graphs of functions: Intercepts -- Slope of a straight line -- Writing the equation of a straight line -- Graphs of linear functions -- Graphs of quadratic functions -- Graphs of polynomial functions of degree 3 and higher -- Asymptotes -- Oblique asymptotes and graphs of rational functions -- Exponential and logarithmic functions: Exponential functions -- Logarithmic functions -- Properties of logarithmic functions -- Solving logarithmic equations -- Applications -- Trigonometry: Angles and their measure -- Right-triangle trigonometry -- Trigonometric functions of any angle -- Graphs of the basic trigonometric functions -- Inverse trigonometric functions -- Applications -- Analytic trigonometry: Using fundamental identities -- Verifying trigonometric identities -- Solving trigonometric equations -- Sum and difference formulas -- Multiple-angle and product-to-sum formulas -- Additional topics in trigonometry: Law of sines -- Law of cosines -- Area of a triangle -- Miscellaneous topics: Solving systems of inequalities and linear programming -- Partial fraction decomposition. 650 0 Algebra. 650 0 Trigonometry. 650 0 Linear programming. 650 0 Exponential functions. 700 1 Crisonino, Ginny. 830 0 Self-teaching guide.
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