MATH 100: Mathematics Essentials

(1 Unit)
Prerequisite: Appropriate score on the mathematics placement assessment and permission of department.
A review of the basics from elementary algebra; absolute value equations and inequalities; radical and rational exponents; completing the square; the discriminant; quadratic inequalities; equations of lines; systems of equations; functions, polynomials and factoring, inverses and their graphs; word problems; exponential and logarithmic functions. Emphasizes simplifying expressions, solving equations, and graphing functions, including linear, quadric, polynomial, rational, radical, exponential and logarithmic. Problem solving and mathematical modeling will be integrated throughout. Staff