Readings and homework

I will assign readings listed below. Most readings will have associated exercises due in class the next day. Unless otherwise specified, all readings and exercises are from the 4th Edition of Elementary & Intermediate Algebra written by Sullivan et al and published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson).

Here are the assigned readings and exercises (Reading 1, Reading 2, Reading 3, Reading 4, Reading 5, Reading 6, Reading 7, Reading 8, Reading 9, Reading 10, Reading 11, Reading 12, Reading 13, Reading 14, Reading 15, Reading 16, Reading 17); but anything whose assigned date is in the future is subject to change!

Introduction:
- Date assigned: July 11 Tuesday.
- Date due: July 13 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 1.1 (pages 2–7);
  - my online introduction.
- Problems due from §1.1: Exercises 3–6 (page 7).
The arithmetic operations:
- Date assigned: July 13 Thursday.
- Date due: July 18 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - my online notes on the real numbers;
  - from Section 1.2 (pages 8–16): nothing, except that as you go through the Quick Check problems from §1.2 in Problem Set 1, review the material just before that if you need to;
  - Section 1.3 (pages 19–25);
  - from Section 1.4:
    - the introduction (page 27 and the top of page 28),
    - the first part of subsection 1 (the rest of page 28),
    - subsection 2 (the bottom of page 30 and the top of page 31),
    - the beginning of subsection 3 (the middle of page 31),
    - the beginning of subsection 4 (the middle of page 32),
    - the beginning of subsection 5 (the bottom of page 33 and the top of page 34);
  - from Section 1.5: the beginning of subsection 2 (the bottom of page 38);
  - from Section 1.6: subsection 1 (pages 48–50).
- Problems due:
  - from §1.3: Quick Check exercises 4 (page 22), 14 (page 24), and 21 (page 25);
  - from §1.4: Quick Check exercises 1 (page 29), 13 (page 31), and 18 (page 31);
  - from §1.5: Quick Check exercise 6 (page 38).
Exponentiation and order of operations:
- Date assigned: July 18 Tuesday.
- Date due: July 20 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - from Section 1.7: subsection 1 (pages 56&57);
  - my online notes on exponentiaton;
  - from Section 5.4:
    - subsection 3 (the middle of page 337),
    - the first part of subsection 4 (the bottom of page 337 and all of page 338),
    - Example 11 and the rule after it (most of page 340);
  - from Section 9.1: the introduction and subsection 1&2 (pages 616–618).
  - from Section 1.7 again: subsection 2 (pages 57–61).
- Problems due:
  - from §1.7: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 56);
  - from §5.4: Quick Check exercises 10 (page 337) and 13 (page 338);
  - from §9.1: Quick Check exercises 2 and 3 (both on page 617);
  - tell in what order you should perform the operations in the expression 5 + 4 ⋅ 3².
Identities for arithmetic:
- Date assigned: July 20 Thursday.
- Date due: July 25 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - From Section 1.6: subsections 2–4 (pages 50–54);
  - my handout on identities for arithmetic;
  - in Sections 1.4&1.5: skim and review for any rules of arithmetic that you need to practice;
  - from Section 5.2:
    - subsection 1 through Example 1 (page 318 and the first half of page 319),
    - subsection 2 through Example 4 (the first half of page 320);
  - from Section 5.4:
    - subsection 1 through Example 1 (most of page 335),
    - the beginning of subsection 2 (the middle of page 336);
  - Section 5.6 (pages 354–358).
- Problems due:
  - from §5.2: Quick Check exercises 2 (page 319) and 9 (page 320);
  - from §5.4: Quick Check exercises 1 (page 336) and 6 (page 337);
  - from §5.6: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 355).
Algebraic expressions:
- Date assigned: July 25 Tuesday.
- Date due: July 27 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 1.8 (pages 63–69);
  - Section 5.1 (pages 309–315);
  - my online notes on polynomials;
  - my handout on identities for simplifying algebraic expressions;
  - from Section 2.4: subsection 1 (pages 108–113).
- Problems due:
  - from §1.8: Quick Check exercises 2 (page 65) and 6 (page 66);
  - from §5.1: Quick Check exercises 2 (page 310) and 12 (page 311);
  - from §2.4: Quick Check exercise 8 (page 111).
Solutions of equations and inequalities:
- Date assigned: July 28 Thursday.
- Date due: August 1 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - from Section 2.1: subsection 1 (pages 82&83);
  - from Section 3.1: subsections 1 and 2 (pages 169–174);
  - from Section 8.1 (because the relevant parts of Section 3.2 are difficult to extract): the introduction and subsection 1 (pages 522–526);
  - from Section 2.5: subsection 1 (pages 120–122);
  - from Section 3.7: subsection 1 (pages 231&232);
  - from Section 1.3: the introduction (on sets, page 19);
  - from Section 2.8: subsections 1 and 2 (pages 148–150);
  - from Section 8.6 (because this clarifies some of the material from Section 2.8): subsection 1 (pages 575&576).
- Problems due:
  - from §2.1: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 83);
  - from §8.1: Quick Check exercises 1 (page 523) and 5 (page 524);
  - from §2.5: Quick Check exercise 3 (page 121);
  - from §2.8: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 149);
  - from §8.6: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 576).
Linear equations and inequalities:
- Date assigned: August 1 Tuesday.
- Date due: August 3 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - from Section 2.1: subsections 2 and 3 (pages 83–89);
  - from Section 2.2: subsections 1, 2, and 3 (pages 91–95);
  - from Section 2.3: subsections 1, 2, and 3 (pages 98–104);
  - from Section 2.8: subsection 3 (pages 150–156);
  - my online notes on solving equations.
- Problems due:
  - from §2.1: Quick Check exercise 6 (page 85);
  - from §2.2: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 92);
  - from §2.3: Quick Check exercises 7 (page 101) and 16 (page 104);
  - from §2.8: Quick Check exercises 13 (page 151), 18 (page 153), and 19 (still page 153).
Word problems:
- Date assigned: August 3 Thursday.
- Date due: August 8 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - from Section 2.2: subsection 4 (page 96);
  - from Section 2.3: subsection 4 (page 105);
  - from Section 2.5: subsections 2 and 3 (pages 123–129);
  - from Section 2.8: subsection 4 (page 157);
  - my online notes on word problems.
- Problems due from §2.5: Quick Check exercises 13 (page 123), 18 (page 125), and 20 (page 127).
Special word problems:
- Date assigned: August 8 Tuesday.
- Date due: August 10 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 2.6 (pages 132–136);
  - from Section 2.7: subsections 3&4 (pages 140–144).
- Problems due:
  - from §2.6: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 133);
  - fill in the correct operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc) in the following rules:
    1. original price ___ discount = sale price,
    2. wholesale price ___ markup = selling price;
  - from §2.7: Quick Check exercises 6 and 7 (both page 141);
  - if you travel at a speed r for a time period t, then what distance d will you travel?
Equations with several variables:
- Date assigned: August 10 Thursday.
- Date due: August 15 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - from Section 2.4: subsection 2 (pages 113–115);
  - from Section 3.1: subsection 3 (pages 174–178);
  - from Section 3.2: subsections 2&3 (pages 186–192).
- Problems due:
  - from §2.4: Quick Check exercise 17 (page 114);
  - from §3.2: Quick Check exercises 12 (page 187) and 21 (page 191).
Lines:
- Date assigned: August 15 Tuesday.
- Date due: August 17 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 3.3 (pages 195–202);
  - Section 3.4 (pages 205–211);
  - Section 3.5 (pages 214–219);
  - my online notes on lines.
- Problems due:
  - from §3.3: Quick Check exercises 4 (page 198) and 7 (page 199);
  - from §3.4: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 206);
  - from §3.5: the first four parts of Quick Check exercise 11 (page 218).
Multiplying and dividing monomials:
- Date assigned: August 17 Thursday.
- Date due: August 22 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - Section 5.2 (pages 318–322);
  - Section 5.4 (pages 334–342);
  - the end of my online notes on polynomials from July 25.
- Problem due: Simplify these two algebraic expressions: 2(3x + 5) + 7x, and x⁷(5x³)². Point out the one place where the artihmetical calculations in these two problems are significantly different.
Multiplying and dividing polynomials:
- Date assigned: August 22 Tuesday.
- Date due: August 24 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 5.3 (pages 323–330);
  - Section 5.5 (pages 345–350);
  - my online notes on arithmetic with polynomials.
- Problems due:
  - from §5.3: Quick Check exercises 7 (page 326), 15 (p 328), and 19 (page 329);
  - from §5.5: Quick Check exercise 6 (page 349).
Basic factoring:
- Date assigned: August 24 Thursday.
- Date due: August 29 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - my online factoring overview;
  - Section 6.1 (pages 369–376);
  - Section 6.2 (pages 378–384).
- Problems due:
  - from §6.1: Quick Check exercises 1, 2, and 3 (all on page 370);
  - from §6.2: Quick Check exercise 2 (page 379).
More factoring:
- Date assigned: August 29 Tuesday.
- Date due: August 31 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 6.3 (pages 386–394);
  - Section 6.4 (pages 396–401);
  - Section 6.5 (pages 403–407);
  - my online summary of factoring techniques.
- Problems due:
  - from §6.3: Quick Check exercise 2 (page 388);
  - from §6.4: Quick Check exercises 2 (page 397), 12 (page 399), and 23 (page 401).
Solving by factoring:
- Date assigned: August 31 Thursday.
- Date due: September 5 Tuesday.
- Reading:
  - Section 6.6 (pages 409–415);
  - my online notes on solving equations by factoring.
- Problems due: from §6.6: Quick Check exercises 1 and 2 (page 410).
Rational expressions:
- Date assigned: September 5 Tuesday.
- Date due: September 7 Thursday.
- Reading:
  - Section 7.1 (pages 433–439);
  - my online notes on rational expressions;
  - Section 7.2 (pages 441–446);
  - Section 7.3 (pages 449–453).
- Problems due:
  - from §7.1: Quick Check exercises 1 (page 434) and 6 (page 436);
  - fill in the blank: to divide by a rational expression, multiply by its _____;
  - from §7.3: Quick Check exercise 1 (page 450).

That's it!

Go back to the the course homepage.

This web page was written between 2003 and 2017 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2017 August 24. Toby reserves no legal rights to it.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2017SU/homework/.