Schaum's Easy Outlines: Intermediate Algebra

✍ Scribed by Ray Steege, Kerry Bailey

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials. Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject Deliver expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields Perfect for last-minute test preparation So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Definitions......Page 9
Axioms of Equality and Order......Page 13
Properties of Real Numbers......Page 16
Addition......Page 18
Order of Operations......Page 19
Definitions......Page 21
Sums and Differences......Page 23
Products......Page 24
Factoring by Grouping......Page 26
Division......Page 28
Basic Properties......Page 31
Products and Quotients......Page 33
Same Denominator......Page 34
Unlike Denominator......Page 36
Mixed Operations and Complex Fractions......Page 37
Solving First-Degree Equations......Page 38
Graphs of First-Degree Equations......Page 42
Formulas and Literal Equations......Page 45
Applications......Page 46
Solving First-Degree Inequalities......Page 48
Graphs of First-Degree Inequalities......Page 50
Absolute-Value Equations and Inequalities......Page 51
Zero Exponents......Page 54
Negative-Integer Exponents......Page 55
Rational Exponents and Roots......Page 56
Simplifying Radicals......Page 57
Simplest Radical Form......Page 58
Rationalizing the Denominator......Page 59
Multiplying and Dividing......Page 61
Solving by Factoring and Square Root Methods......Page 62
Factor Method......Page 63
Square Root Method......Page 64
Completing the Square and the Quadratic Formula......Page 65
The Quadratic Formula......Page 66
Equations Involving Radicals......Page 68
Graphs of Second-Degree Equations......Page 69
Quadratic Inequalities......Page 72
Procedure for Solving Quadratic Inequalities......Page 74
Linear Systems in Two Variables......Page 75
The Addition Method......Page 78
The Substitution Method......Page 79
Linear Systems in Three Variables......Page 80
Determinants......Page 82
Cramer’s Rule......Page 84
Matrix Methods......Page 85
Addition Method......Page 88
Systems of Inequalities......Page 89
Basic Concepts......Page 91
Function Notation and the Algebra of Functions......Page 93
Distance Between Points in the Plane......Page 94
Slope of a Line......Page 95
Linear Equation Forms......Page 96
Types of Functions......Page 99
Inverse Relations and Functions......Page 101
Exponential Functions......Page 103
Logarithmic Functions......Page 105
Common Logs and Natural Logs......Page 107
Exponential and Logarithmic Equations......Page 108
Interest......Page 110
Exponential Growth and Decay......Page 111
Sequences......Page 113
Series......Page 115
The Binomial Theorem......Page 117
Index......Page 123