Homework
In case you miss a homework assignment in class, you can find it below.
Unless otherwise specified,
all problems
are from the 9th Edition
of Algebra and Trigonometry published by Prentice Hall (Pearson).
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if you have trouble reading them.
(See the grading policies
for general instructions on doing homework and how it will be graded.)
- Introduction and review:
- Date assigned: October 2 Wednesday.
- Date due: October 4 Friday.
- Problems from the Chapter 1 Test (page 147):
- Show at least one intermediate step: 1–12;
- Show what equation you solve: 13.
- Extra credit (essay):
Explain your background in mathematics
and what you are going to use this course for.
- Some answers:
DjVu format,
PDF format.
- Graphs of points in the plane:
- Date assigned: October 4 Friday.
- Date due: October 7 Monday.
- Problems from Section 2.1 (pages 154–157):
- No additional work needed: 2, 3, 4, 13.
- Show what numerical calculation you make or what equation you solve:
17, 19, 21, 29, 35, 37.
- No additional work needed: 43.
- Show what numerical calculation you make or what equation you solve:
59, 67.
- Graphs of equations in the plane:
- Date assigned: October 7 Monday.
- Date due: October 9 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 2.2 (pages 164–167):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7.
- Show what numerical calculations you make: 11, 15.
- Show your table of values: 21, 27.
- Label which point is which: 29, 32, 33.
- No additional work needed: 39–45 odd, 51, 53.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each result: 59, 65, 69.
- Show what equation you solve: 77.
- No additional work needed: 85.
- Lines:
- Date assigned: October 9 Wednesday.
- Date due: October 11 Friday.
- Problems from Section 2.3 (pages 178–182):
- No additional work needed:
1, 2, 8, 9.
- Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
11, 13, 15, 17.
- No additional work needed: 23, 29.
- Show the slope of each line: 37, 43.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each:
45, 49, 55, 59, 66, 67, 71.
- No additional work needed: 77, 83&85 (one is a trick question).
- Give a reason for each answer: 103, 105.
- Systems of linear equations:
- Date assigned: October 11 Friday.
- Date due: October 14 Monday.
- Problems from Section 12.1 (pages 854–858):
- No additional work needed: 1, 3, 5.
- Show what numerical calculations you make: 9.
- Show enough work that I can tell which method you used:
17, 19, 25, 29, 43, 45.
- Show what equation or equations you solve: 61, 67, 69.
- No additional work needed: 84.
- Functions:
- Date assigned: October 16 Wednesday.
- Date due: October 21 Monday.
- Problems from Section 3.1 (pages 210–213):
- No additional work needed: 1, 3, 4, 7, 31, 36.
- Show what calculation you make for each part: 39, 45.
- Show what equations or inequalities you solve, if any:
47, 49, 51, 55, 57.
- Show what calculation you make for each part: 63, 71.
- Show what calculation you make or what equation you solve:
73, 85.
- Problems from Section 3.2 (pages 218–222):
- No additional work needed: 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12–15.
- Show what calculation you make or what equation you solve for each part:
23, 25.
- No additional work needed: 37, 39, 40.
- Properties of functions:
- Date assigned: October 21 Monday.
- Date due: October 23 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 3.3 (pages 230–234):
- No additional work needed:
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11–20, 21–31 odd.
- Show what calculations you make or what equations you check:
33, 35, 39, 43.
- No additional work needed: 45–48.
- Show what calculations you make or what equations you solve:
61, 63, 67.
- Setting up word problems using functions:
- Date assigned: October 23 Wednesday.
- Date due: October 25 Friday.
- Problems from Section 3.6 (pages 260–263):
- Show at least one intermediate step for each part (except for 13.a):
1.a–c, 3.a, 5, 11.a&b, 13, 15, 19.a, 22.a–c, 24.
- Optional (using a graphing calculator):
1.d&e, 3.b&c, 11.c, 19.b, 22.d&e.
- Linear functions, other basic functions:
- Date assigned: October 25 Friday.
- Date due: October 28 Monday.
- Problems from Section 4.1 (pages 278–281):
- No additional work needed:
1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 13, 18, 19.
- Show what calculations you make to check: 21–27 odd.
- No additional work needed: 33, 34.
- Show what equations you solve or what numerical calculations you make:
37, 47, 49.
- Problems from Section 3.4 (pages 241–244):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 4, 9–24;
- Optional (using a graphing calculator): 66, 67.
- Piecewise-defined functions, basic composition:
- Date assigned: October 28 Monday.
- Date due: October 31 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 3.4 (pages 241–244):
- Show what numerical calculations you make: 25, 27.
- Show at least what equations you solve for part B:
29, 31, 33.
- No additional work needed: 41, 43.
- Show what numerical calculation you make: 47.
- Problems from Section 6.1 (pages 406–408):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 3.
- Show one intermediate step for each part:
9, 11, 15, 19.
- Composite functions:
- Date assigned: October 30 Wednesday.
- Date due: November 1 Friday.
- Problems from Section 6.1 (pages 406–408):
- Show what equations or inequalities you solve: 21, 23.
- Show what equations or inequalities you solve, if any, for each domain
and show one other intermediate step for each part:
31, 33, 35, 39.
- Show what equation you solve: 61, 62.
- Show at least one intermediate step: 65, 67.
- Inverse functions:
- Date assigned: November 1 Friday.
- Date due: November 4 Monday.
- Problems from Section 6.2 (pages 417–421):
- No additional work needed: 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 19–24.
- Show at least one intermediate step in each direction: 35, 37, 41.
- No additional work needed: 43–48.
- The graphs are optional, but show what equation you solve:
51, 53, 55, 61, 63, 65, 67.
- No additional work needed: 73–80.
- Linear coordinate transformations:
- Date assigned: November 4 Monday.
- Date due: November 6 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 3.5 (pages 253–257):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 3, 7–26.
- Show both intermediate formulas: 27, 28.
- No additional work needed: 31–36.
- Show all stages: 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 55.
- No additional work needed: 63, 64, 86, 87.
- Quadratic functions:
- Date assigned: November 6 Wednesday.
- Date due: November 8 Friday.
- Problems from Section 4.3 (pages 297–299):
- No additional work needed: 1–4, 7, 11–18.
- Show the intermediate steps in the graph by transformations: 19, 21.
- Show the form
f(x) =
a(x − h)2 + k,
and show the intermediate steps in the graph by transformations:
23, 25.
- State the vertex and intercepts,
and show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve
to find them:
31, 37, 41, 43.
- Show at least one intermediate step: 49, 51.
- Show what numerical calculations you make: 55, 57.
- No additional work needed: 89.
- Applications of quadratic functions:
- Date assigned: November 11 Monday.
- Date due: November 13 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 4.4 (pages 305–309):
- No additional work needed: 1.
- Show what numerical calculations you make
or what equations or inequalities you solve:
3–9 odd, 11.a–c, 13, 15, 17, 31.
- Exponential functions:
- Date assigned: November 13 Wednesday.
- Date due: November 15 Friday.
- Problems from Section 6.3 (pages 432–437):
- No additional work needed: 1, 7, 12, 13.
- Optional, using a calculator: 15.
- Show what calculations you make to check: 25–31 odd.
- No additional work needed: 33–40.
- Show the graph before transforming as well:
41, 43, 47, 49, 53, 55, 57.
- No additional work needed: 61.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each:
63, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 79, 81.
- No additional work needed: 85, 87.
- Logarithmic functions:
- Date assigned: November 15 Friday.
- Date due: November 18 Monday.
- Problems from Section 6.4 (pages 446–450):
- No additional work needed: 1.a, 4, 6, 9–24.
- Show at least one intermediate step: 25–35 odd.
- Show what equations or inequalities you solve: 37, 41.
- Optional, using a calculator: 49.
- No additional work needed: 63–70.
- Show what equations or inequalities you solve: 71, 77, 81, 83.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each: 87–109 odd.
- Show what numerical calculations you make:
117, 127–130.
- Laws of logarithms:
- Date assigned: November 18 Monday.
- Date due: November 20 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 6.5 (pages 457&458):
- No additional work needed: 1–9, 13, 15, 17.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each: 19–27 odd, 37.
- No additional work needed: 39.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each: 41–55 odd.
- No additional work needed: 57.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each: 59–69 odd.
- Optional, using a calculator: 71, 77.
- Show an intermediate step for each: 87, 91, 97.
- Logarithmic and exponential equations:
- Date assigned: November 20 Wednesday.
- Date due: November 22 Friday.
- Problems from Section 6.6 (pages 463–465):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2.
- Show at least one intermediate step for each:
5–9, 13–25 odd, 31, 35, 39, 41, 45.
- Applications of exponents and logarithms:
- Date assigned: November 25 Monday.
- Date due: December 2 Monday.
- Problems from Section 6.7 (pages 472–475):
Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 21, 31, 32, 41, 43.
- Problems from Section 6.8 (pages 484–486):
Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
1, 3, 5.b&c, 7.b, 9–21 odd.
- Logistic growth, analysing factored polynomials:
- Date assigned: December 2 Monday.
- Date due: December 4 Wednesday.
- Problems from Section 6.8 (pages 484–486):
Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
23, 24.
- Problems from Section 5.1 (pages 337–341):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19, 21.
- Show the graph before transforming as well: 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 38.
- No additional work needed, but use 1 as the leading coefficient:
41–47 odd.
- Show what numerical calculations you make for part c,
but skip part d: 49, 51, 55, 59.
- No additional work needed: 61, 63, 65.
- Skip Step 4 (turning points),
and show what numerical calculations you make
for Step 5 (behaviour near x-intercepts):
69, 73, 75, 77, 79, 84, 85.
- Factoring polynomials:
- Date assigned: December 6 Friday.
- Date due: Decmeber 9 Monday.
- Problems from Section 5.5 (pages 385–387):
- No additional work necessary:
1–4, 6, 9.
- Show what numerical calculations you make: 11, 15, 19.
- No additional work necessary: 33, 35, 37, 39, 40.
- Show how you check each potential root/zero: 45, 51, 53.
- Show the polynomial in factored form: 57, 59, 65, 67, 91, 97, 99.
- Show what calculation you make: 103, 117.
- Problems from Section 5.6 (pages 392&393):
- No additional work needed: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 15.
- Use 1 as the leading coefficient,
and show the expression before and after expanding:
17, 18, 21.
- Show your factoring or division: 23, 27, 33, 37.
- No additional work needed: 41, 43.
- Rational functions:
- Date assigned: December 11 Wednesday.
- Date due: December 16 Monday.
- Problems from Section 5.2 (pages 350–353):
- No additional work needed: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7;
- Show at least one intermediate step: 13–17, 21;
- No additional work necessary: 25, 29;
- Show the graph before transforming as well: 33;
- Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
43, 47, 48.
- Problems from Section 5.3 (pages 365–367):
- No additional work needed: 1, 3, 6;
- Show what numerical calculations you make or what equations you solve:
7–11, 17–23 odd, 31, 33, 35;
- No additional work needed: 45–48.
That's it!
We didn't get to the following material (inequalities),
but you can look at it if you want.
- Problems from Section 5.4 (pages 371–374):
- Official list:
5–13 odd, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43;
- Old list:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 21, 33, 39, 41, 55, 71.
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