MA 125. Intermediate Algebra

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): A score at a predetermined level on a placement instrument or MA 060(or MA 064, MA 065, and MA 066) with a C or better.

This course will enable the student to interpret mathematical symbols and notation and simplify expressions involving complex numbers, rational exponents, and rational functions. The student will solve various equations (including quadratic, radical, and rational equations) and systems of linear equations (including word problems), and graph inequalities in two variables. The student will use function notation and graph quadratic functions.