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Oct 30, 2025
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2023-2024 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]
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MAT 091 - Beginning Algebra
Credits: 4
Lab/Lecture: Four lecture.
Basic algebraic concepts including operations with signed numbers, exponents and radicals, linear equations and inequalities, polynomials, and graphing.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- perform the four basic operations, absolute values, and exponents on rational numbers;
- simplify algebraic expressions;
- solve linear equations;
- verify solutions of algebraic equations;
- use interval notation to describe solutions of inequalities;
- solve and graph linear inequalities;
- graph linear equations in two dimensions;
- solve systems of equations graphically and algebraically;
- simplify exponential expressions;
- perform basic operations on polynomial expressions;
- factor polynomials by removing the greatest common factor;
- factor polynomials by grouping;
- factor trinomials by using various methods including special forms;
- solve quadratic equations by factoring;
- and solve application problems.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 088 or placement.
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