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    Dec 21, 2024  
2023-2024 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]

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:
  1. perform the four basic operations, absolute values, and exponents on rational numbers;
  2. simplify algebraic expressions;
  3. solve linear equations;
  4. verify solutions of algebraic equations;
  5. use interval notation to describe solutions of inequalities;
  6. solve and graph linear inequalities;
  7. graph linear equations in two dimensions;
  8. solve systems of equations graphically and algebraically;
  9. simplify exponential expressions;
  10. perform basic operations on polynomial expressions;
  11. factor polynomials by removing the greatest common factor;
  12. factor polynomials by grouping;
  13. factor trinomials by using various methods including special forms;
  14. solve quadratic equations by factoring; 
  15. and solve application problems.


Prerequisite(s): MAT 088  or placement.