Problem sets and exams

Almost every other Thursday, starting on July 27, but on September 12 Tuesday the last time, there will be an exam during the last hour of the class period, closely based on an associated problem set. (There is also a final exam on September 19 Tuesday, but this page is not about that.) Unless otherwise specified, all problems in the problem sets are from the 4th Edition of Elementary & Intermediate Algebra written by Sullivan et al and published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson).

Here are the exam dates and the associated problem sets (Exam 1, Exam 2, Exam 3, Exam 4):

Arithmetic:
- Date taken: July 27 Thursday.
- After Reading 1:
  - Problems from §1.1 (pages 7&8): 1, 2, 7, 8.
  - Extra-credit essay question: explain your background in mathematics and what you are going to use this course for.
  - Problems from Section 1.2 (Quick Check, pages 8–16): 3–6, 20, 21, 22, 27–38.
- After Reading 2:
  - Problems from Section 1.3 (pages 25–27): 37–42, 43–67 odd, 79–88.
  - Problems from Section 1.4 (pages 35–37): 59–62, 95–100.
  - Problems from Section 1.5 (pages 46&47): 53–56.
  - Problems from Section 1.6 (pages 54&55): 19–27 odd.
- After Reading 3:
  - Problems from Section 1.7 (pages 62&63): 29, 30, 31, 32, 33–71 odd, 75, 77, 79, 83, 87, 89, 91, 95, 97, 99.
  - Problems from Section 5.4 (pages 343&345): 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 71, 73.
  - Problems from Section 9.1 (pages 619&620):
    - 23–32;
    - Optional (using a calculator): 39–42.
- After Reading 4:
  - Problems from Section 1.6 (pages 54&55): Use identities to make these problems simpler: 45–55 odd, 56, 59, 60, 61.
  - Problems from Section 1.4 (pages 35–37):
    - Optional if you need practice adding with negative numbers: 43–57 odd;
    - Optional if you need practice subtracting with negative numbers: 63–77 odd;
    - Optional if you need practice multiplying with negative numbers: 79–93 odd;
    - Required: 113–127 odd.
  - Problems from Section 1.5 (pages 46&47):
    - Optional if you need practice multiplying with fractions: 43–51 odd;
    - Optional if you need practice dividing with fractions: 57–65 odd;
    - Optional if you need practice adding and subtracting with fractions: 67–81 odd;
    - Required: 103–111 odd.
  - Problems from Section 5.2 (pages 322&323): 21–24, 35–38.
  - Problems from Section 5.4 (pages 343&345): 33, 34, 43, 44, 79, 80, 97, 99, 101.
  - Problems from Section 5.6 (pages 357–359): 27–87 odd.
  - Problems from Section 9.1 (pages 619&620): 45–48, 57–60, 63–68, 75, 76.
Expressions and equations:
- Date taken: August 10 Thursday.
- After Reading 5:
  - Problems from Section 1.8 (pages 69–71): 39–49 odd, 51–54, 63–91 odd, 103.
  - Problems from Section 5.1 (pages 315–318):
    - 29–40;
    - ignore ‘binomial’ and ‘trinomial’ but instead classify polynomials as monomial or other: 41–56;
    - 57–65 odd, 71–81 odd, 87, 89, 93–99 odd, 107.
  - Problems from Section 3.2 (pages 192–195): 25–32.
  - Problems from Section 2.4 (pages 115–119): 23–39 odd.
- After Reading 6:
  - Problems from Section 3.1 (pages 178–181): 19, 25, 27, 29, 31, 39, 41.
  - Problems from Section 3.2 (pages 192–195): use at least three values of x, at least one negative and at least one positive: 33, 35, 37.
  - Problems from Section 2.5 (pages 129–131): 27–52.
  - Problem from Section 1.8 (pages 69–71): 121.
  - Problems from Section 5.1 (pages 315–318): 119–129 odd.
  - Problems from Section 2.1 (pages 89–91): 25–31 odd.
  - Problems from Section 3.7 (pages 237–239): 15, 16, 17, 21.
  - Problems from Section 1.3 (pages 25–27): 25–30.
  - Problems from Section 2.8 (pages 157–159): 37–50.
- After Reading 7:
  - Problems from Section 2.1 (pages 89–91): 33–85 odd.
  - Problems from Section 2.2 (pages 96–98):
    - 25–55 odd, 63–71 odd, 91;
    - extra credit: 98.
  - Problems from Section 2.3 (pages 105–107): 27–35 odd, 45–53 odd, 63–79 odd.
  - Problems from Section 2.8 (pages 157–159): 59–81 odd.
- After Reading 8:
  - Problems from Section 1.4 (pages 35–37): 141–146.
  - Problems from Section 1.5 (pages 46&47): 135, 137.
  - Problems from Section 2.1 (pages 89–91): think about how you could come up with the equation on your own: 103, 105.
  - Problems from Section 2.2 (pages 96–98): think about how you could come up with the equation on your own: 77, 79, 81.
  - Problems from Section 2.3 (pages 105–107): think about how you could come up with the equation on your own: 105–111 odd.
  - Problems from Section 2.5 (pages 129–131): 53–60, 61–73 odd, 79, 81.
  - Problems from Section 2.8 (pages 157–159): 89–98, 117, 119, 121.
Multiple variables:
- Date taken: August 24 Thursday.
- After Reading 9:
  - Problems from Section 2.6 (pages 136–138): 19–53 odd.
  - Problems from Section 2.7 (pages 145–147): 21, 23, 27, 29, 30, 39–45 odd.
- After Reading 10:
  - Problems from Section 2.4 (pages 115–119):
    - assume that all variables stand for positive numbers: 45, 47, 49, 51;
    - 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 71, 83, 85.
  - Problems from Section 3.1 (pages 178–181): 33, 35, 37, 43, 45, 47.
  - Problems from Section 3.2 (pages 192–195):
    - use at least three entries in your table of values: 39–49 odd;
    - 51–75 odd, 87–93 odd, 107–117 odd.
- After Reading 11:
  - Problems from Section 3.4 (pages 212–214): 21–67 odd.
  - Problems from Section 3.3 (pages 202–205):
    - 13–31 odd, 37–44, 45–57 odd;
    - Optional: 69;
    - Extra credit (show what equation you solve or what numerical calculation you make): 70.
  - Problems from Section 3.5 (pages 219–221): 13–27 odd, 29–36, 37–47 odd, 87, 88.
- After Reading 12:
  - Problems from Section 5.2 (pages 322&323): 25–31 odd, 39, 43–59 odd, 67–79 odd.
  - Problems from Section 5.4 (pages 343&345): 35–41 odd, 45, 47, 49, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 75, 77, 81–95 odd, 105–109 odd, 123, 125, 127.
Factoring polynomials:
- Date taken: September 12 Tuesday.
- Problems from Section 5.3 (pages 331–333): 35–93 odd, 111, 129, 131.
- Problems from Section 5.5 (pages 350–352): 13–43 odd, 55–69 odd.
- Problems from §6.1 (pages 375&376): 6–8, 13–18, 27–39 odd, 47–63 odd, 81, 83, 85, 95, 97, 71–79 odd, 89, 93, 99.
- Problems from §6.2 (pages 383–385): 23–57 odd, 99, 101.
- Problems from §6.3 (pages 393&394): These do not have to be done by grouping if you prefer another method: 23–45 odd, 105.
- Problems from §6.4 (pages 401&402): 3–7, 29–57 odd.
- Problems from §6.5 (pages 406&407): 29, 39, 47, 53, 61, 69, 81.
- Problems from §6.6 (pages 414–416): 29, 35, 37, 45, 53, 61, 69, 71, 79, 83, 85, 103, 104, 107, 109, 111.
- Problems from §7.1 (pages 438&439): 21–27 odd, 29–39 odd, 41–51 odd, 89, 90.
- Problems from §7.2 (pages 445–447): 31–51 odd.
- Problems from §7.3 (pages 452–454):
  - 17, 23, 29, 31, 35, 41, 44, 49, 55, 61, 65, 73, 89;
  - Extra credit: Show at least one additional intermediate step in your correction: 100.

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