Math 116 is a one semester course in College Algebra. Major topics include

• Roots of Polynomials
• Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
• Linear Equations and Matrices
• Sequences and Progressions
• Conic Sections and Analytic Geometry

• Weekly Review Sessions
• Pre-requisite material. A summary of what we expect you to know from your previous post-arithmetic math courses.
• Pre-requisite material practice problems.
• Coursewide Final Exam Time
• Detailed Syllabus , edition 8 of text.
• Coursewide homework problems
• Final Exams Past finals and practice finals
• How installment loans work , an application of geometric progressions, geometric series, and induction.

• Elementary Geometry, including properties of parallel lines, similar triangles, circles and the Pythagorean Theorem for right triangles
• Analytic geometry of lines
• Arithmetic with complex numbers
• The quadratic formula and graphs of quadratic functions
• Algebra of polynomials and rational functions
• Linear equations and inequalities in one and two variables
• Exponents and radicals
• Functions and operations on functions including inversion and composition

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Last updated June 29, 2007 by Eric Key.