MATH 110: Business Precalculus
Course Description
Textbook Information
Deborah Hughes-Hallett, et al. Functions Modeling Change, Sixth Edition (pack- aged with Wiley Plus). ISBN: 978-1-119-498278
Common Syllabus
Chapter 1: Linear Functions and Change
1.3 Linear Functions
1.4 Formulas for Linear Functions
1.5 Modeling with Linear Functions
Chapter 2: Functions
2.1 Input and Output
2.2 Domain and Range
2.3 Piecewise-defined functions
2.4 Preview of Transformations: Shifts
2.6 Concavity
Chapter 3: Quadratic Functions
3.1 Introduction to the Family of Quadratic Functions
3.2 The vertex of a Parabola
Chapter 4: Exponential Functions
4.1 Introduction to the family of exponential function
4.2 Comparing exponential and linear functions
4.3 Graphs of exponential functions
4.4 Applications to compound interest
4.5 The number e
Chapter 5: Logarithmic functions
5.1 Logarithms and their properties
5.2 Logarithms and exponential models
5.3 The logarithmic function and its applications
Chapter 10: Compositions, inverses, and combinations of functions
10.1 Composition of functions
10.2 Revisiting Inverse Functions
Chapter 11: Polynomial and Rational Functions
11.1 Power functions and proportionality
11.2 Polynomial functions
11.6 Comparing power, exponential, and log functions