Автор: Stan Gibilisco
Название: Algebra Know-It-ALL: Beginner to Advanced, and Everything in Between
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год: 2008
ISBN: 9780071546171
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,1 mb
Страниц: 730
If you want to improve your understanding of algebra, then this book is for you. It can supplement standard texts at the middle-school and high-school levels. It can also serve as a self-teaching or home-schooling supplement. The essential prerequisite is a solid background in arithmetic. It will help if you’ve had some pre-algebra as well.
This book contains three major sections. Part 1 involves numbers, sets, arithmetic operations, and basic equations. Part 2 is devoted to first-degree equations, relations, functions, and systems of linear equations. Part 3 deals with quadratic, cubic, and higher-degree equations, and introduces you to logarithms, exponentials, and systems of nonlinear equations.
Chapters 1 through 9, 11 through 19, and 21 through 29 end with practice exercises. You may (and should) refer to the text as you solve these problems. Worked-out solutions appear in Apps. A, B, and C. Often, these solutions do not represent the only way a problem can be figured out. Feel free to try alternatives!
Chapters 10, 20, and 30 contain question-and-answer sets that finish up Parts 1, 2, and 3, respectively. These chapters will help you review the material. A multiple-choice final exam concludes the course. Don’t refer to the text while taking the exam. The questions in the exam are more general (and less time consuming) than the practice exercises at the ends of the chapters. The final exam is designed to test your grasp of the concepts, not to see how well you can execute calculations. The correct answers are listed in App. D.