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Credit Hours: 4 Total Contact Hours: 56
Instructor: Rashid Ahmad
E-Mail: rashidahmad@juno.com
Office: Preble Rm. 202 (By appointment only)
Ph: 207-571-4383 (H), (207) 450-0277 (C)
4 credits
This course covers variables and symbols; scientific notation; formulas and literal equations; slope, intercepts, and equations of lines; graphs of linear and quadratic functions; graphs of linear inequalities; solving systems of linear equations; polynomials, products and factors; roots, rational exponents, and complex numbers; rational expressions; solving linear, quadratic, and higher order equations; solving linear inequalities; an introduction to exponential and logarithmic functions; degree and radian angle measure; right triangle trigonometry and its applications; trigonometric functions and their inverses; graphing trigonometric functions; solutions of oblique triangles; vectors; and applied problem solving.
Prerequisite: MATH-050 or equivalent or placement test
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
1.
Use the properties of real numbers to simplify and evaluate expressions.
2.
Solve linear equations and inequalities.
3.
Use and transform formulas and functions.
4.
Graph linear equations and inequalities in one and two variables.
5.
Write the three forms of the equation of a line.
6.
Solve systems of linear equations by graphing, substitution, and addition.
7.
Apply the laws of exponents and use scientific notation .
8.
Factor and perform operations with polynomials .
9.
Solve quadratic equations by three methods: factoring, completing the square, and using the Quadratic Formula.
10. Graph quadratic equations ( Parabolas ).
11. Perform operations with rational algebraic expressions , and solve rational equations.
12. Simplify and perform operations with radical expressions and rational exponents .
13. Use exponential and logarithmic functions .
14.
Convert angles from degrees to radians and radians to degrees.
15.
Solve right triangles using trigonometry.
16.
Calculate the six trigonometric functions of any angle and find their inverses.
17.
Graph the trigonometric functions.
18.
Solve oblique triangles using the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines.
19.
Use trigonometry to find the components of vectors and to add vectors.
20.
Solve word problems using one or more of the skills above.

Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes, do the homework assigned each day for the next class, take tests, and be active participants in the class.
Student evaluation may include in-class testing, class attendance, participation in class work, and homework assignments. Your instructor will make clear his/her grading policy.
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, Margaret Lial et al, 7 th ed., Addison Wesley, 2012.
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Beecher, Penna, and Bittinger , Pearson-Addison Wesley, 2008.
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If purchased in the SMCC bookstore, the Lial text will be packaged with the Student
Solutions Manual and access to My Math Lab. In addition, there is a nice set of CDs packaged with the Beecher book that cover topics in both books.
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(required).
There is an optional set of digitized videos on CD-ROM or DVD, aligned with the Lial textbook, for students to use at home. These include a full lecture for selected sections.
CDs ISBN: 0-321-44626-7 and 978-0-321-44626-8
DVDs ISBN: 0-321-44789-1 and 978-0-321-44789-0
In order to gain access to final course grades, students must complete evaluations for each course attended at SMCC. Evaluations are submitted online and can be accessed through the student portal site. Students can access the course evaluation report beginning two weeks before the end of classes. The deadline for submission of evaluations occurs 24 hours after the last day of classes each semester. Instructors will announce when the online course evaluation is available.
Southern Maine Community College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution and employer. For more information, please call 207-741-5798 . If you have a disabling condition and wish to request accommodations in order to have reasonable access to the programs and services offered by SMCC, you must register with the Disability
Services Coordinator, Sandra Lynham, who can be reached at 741-5923. Further information about services for students with disabilities and the accommodation process is available upon request at this number. Course policies about online testing are modified to suit each individual’s accommodations.

This policy identifies the cost per page for black and white as well as color printing in varying page sizes. Specifics of the policy are outlined below:
Per Page Costs
Each semester students receive a $20 printing credit. The balance resets at the end of the semester and any remaining credits are removed. The cost varies depending upon page size and whether printing is done in black and white or color. a. There is a $0.10 per page fee for standard 8.5” by 11” black and white documents. b. The reverse sides of duplex (double-sided) documents are free. c. There is a $.50 per page fee for standard 8.5” by 11” color documents. d. There is a $.20 per page fee for 8.5” by 14” (legal) or 11” by 17” (tabloid) black and white documents. e. There is a $1.00 per page fee for 8.5” by 14” (legal) or 11” by 17” (tabloid) color documents.
Duplex charges (printing on both sides of a page) work in the following fashion: One page is $0.10, two pages are $0.10, three pages are $0.20, and four pages are
$0.20, etc . The flipsides are free, but another sheet of paper is $0.10. Please be aware that a document with any color at all (when printed to a color printer) will by default be printed in color. You are responsible for setting the print job to print black and white if you do not need color. For directions, please go to the IT Help tab in My
SMCC.
How does it work?
The College’s pay-for-print system monitors printing on all printers (including those in general access labs, library printers, the Academic Achievement Center, Noisy Lounge and technology labs). Students can check the number of pages they have printed by using the Printing Balance tool available on SMCC computers (located in the lower right corner of the screen, near the clock). Departments with work study students who need to print documents for the department should contact the HelpDesk at 741-5696 to have a special account set up.
Refunds
Print jobs are eligible for a refund in the event of mechanical or electronic error on the part of the printer, print server, or software used to submit the job. Jobs are not eligible for a refund in cases where the job was not set up correctly, was submitted multiple times, or the student is not satisfied with the result. To request a refund, please bring the offending print to the IT Department in the basement of the Ross Technology
Center. Refunds will be granted in the form of a credit to the student’s account.
Why is SMCC charging for printing?
The pay-for-print system is an effort to control escalating printing costs. Charging for printing helps offset the increasing cost of supplies and encourages students to conserve resources. To find ways to reduce your printing charges, please go to the IT
Help tab on My SMCC. If you have questions about the pay-for-printing policy or your printing charges, please contact the HelpDesk at 741-5696 or send an email to helpdesk@smccme.edu
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Be sure to log OUT of the system when you’ve finished your printing, to prevent unauthorized access to your account.

Students who drop a course during the one-week “add/drop” period in the fall and spring semesters and the first three days of summer sessions receive a 100% refund of the tuition and associated fees for that course. Please note any course that meets for less than the traditional semester length, i.e., 15 weeks, has a pro-rated add/drop period. There is no refund for non-attendance.
A student may withdraw from a course only during the semester in which s/he is registered for that course. The withdrawal period is the second through twelfth week of the fall and spring semesters and the second through ninth week of twelve-week summer courses. This period is pro-rated for shorter-length courses. To withdraw from a course, a student must complete and submit the appropriate course withdrawal form, available at the Enrollment
Service Center (no phone calls, please). The designation “W” will appear on the transcript after a student has officially withdrawn. A course withdrawal is an uncompleted course and may adversely affect financial aid eligibility. Failure to attend or ceasing to attend class does not constitute withdrawal from the course. There is no refund associated with a withdrawal.
Adherence to ethical academic standards is obligatory. Cheating is a serious offense, whether it consists of taking credit for work done by another person or doing work for which another person will receive credit. Taking and using the ideas or writings of another person without clearly and fully crediting the source is plagiarism and violates the academic code as well as the Student Code of Conduct. If it is suspected that a student in any course in which s/he is enrolled has knowingly committed such a violation, the faculty member should refer the matter to the College’s Disciplinary Officer and appropriate action will be taken under the Student Code of Conduct. Sanctions may include suspension from the course and a failing grade in the course. Students have the right to appeal these actions to the Disciplinary Committee under the terms outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.
With an eighteen-week term, there are approximately 15 weeks available for Algebra, and 3 weeks for Trigonometry. This means the course is very fast-paced for both the students and the teacher. Since much of the material in Chapters 1 and 2 of Margaret
Lial’s Algebra book are review, one way to find a little extra time for the later topics is to keep these lectures very brief. Students should be able to review these skills on their own if they are well prepared for the course.
CH 1 REVIEW OF THE REAL NUMBERS all sections
1.1 Basic Concepts (Sets and Set Builder Notation)
1.2 Operations on Real Numbers
1.3 Exponents, Roots, and Order of Operations
1.4 Properties of Real Numbers

CH 2 LINEAR EQUATION, INEQUALITIES, and APPLICATIONS
2.1 Linear Equations in One Variable
2.2 Formulas and Percent
2.3 Applications of Linear Equations
all sections
2.4 Further Applications of Linear Equations
2.5 Linear Inequalities in One Variable
2.6 Set Operations and Compound Inequalities
2.7 Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
CH 3 GRAPHS, LINEAR EQUATIONS, and FUNCTIONS
(Objectives 2 & 4 only)
all sections
3.1 The Rectangular Coordinate System (Objectives 1–6 only)
3.2 The Slope of a Line
3.3 Linear Equations in Two Variables
3.4 Linear Inequalities in Two Variables
3.5 Introduction to Relations and Functions
3.6 Evaluating functions
(Objectives 1–6 only)
(Objectives 1–3 only)
(Objective 1 only)
CH 4 SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
4.1 Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables
4.2 Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables
4.3 Applications of Systems of Linear Equations
CH 6 FACTORING
4.1, 4.2, 4.3 (omit 4.4)
(Objectives 1–5 only)
(Objectives 1 & 2 only)
(Objectives 1–3 only)
CH 5 EXPONENTS, POLYNOMIALS, and POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS all sections
5.1 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation
5.2 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
5.3 Polynomial Functions, Graphs, and Composition Objectives 1 & 2 only)
5.4 Multiplying Polynomials (Objectives 1–5 only)
5.5 Dividing Polynomials (Objectives 1 & 2 only)
all sections
6.1 Greatest Common Factors and Factoring by Grouping
6.2 Factoring Trinomials
6.3 Special Factoring
6.4 A General Approach to Factoring
6.5 Solving Equations by Factoring
Objectives 1, 2, & 4 only)
CH 7 RATIONAL EXPRESSIONS and FUNCTIONS
7.1 Rational Expressions and Functions; Multiplying and Dividing
7.2 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
7.3 Complex Fractions
7.4 Equations with Rational Expressions and Graphs
7.5 Applications of Rational Expressions
7.6 Variation all sections
(Objectives 1 & 2 only)
(Objectives 1, 3, & 5 only)

CH 8 ROOTS, RADICALS, and ROOT FUNCTIONS
8.1 Radical Expressions and Graphs
all sections
(Objectives 1, 2, 4, & 5 only)
8.2 Rational Exponents
8.3 Simplifying Radical Expressions
8.4 Adding and Subtracting Radical Expressions
(Objectives 1–5 only)
8.5 Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions
8.6 Solving Equations with Radicals
8.7 Complex Numbers
(Objectives 1, 2, and 3 only)
CH 9 QUADRATIC EQUATIONS and INEQUALITIES 9.1–9.4 only (omit 9.5)
9.1 The Square Root Property and Completing the Square
9.2 The Quadratic Formula
9.3 Equations Quadratic in Form
(Objectives 2 & 3 only)
9.4 Formulas and Further Applications (Objectives 1, 3, & 4 only)
CH 10 ADDITIONAL GRAPHS of FUNCTIONS and RELATIONS 10.3 (only)
10.3 More about Parabolas and Their Applications (Objectives 1, 2, 3, & 4 only; for objective 1, begin with example to exclude finding the vertex by completing the square)
CH 11 INVERSE, EXPONENTIAL, and LOGTHMIC FUNCTIONS 11.2 & 11.3 (only)
11.2 Exponential Functions (Objectives 1 & 3 only)
(Objectives 1, 2, & 3 only) 11.3 Logarithmic Functions
CH 1 THE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS selected topics from 1.1 – 1.5 (Omit1.6)
1.1 Trigonometric Functions of Acute Angles
1.2 Applications of Right Triangles
1.3 Trigonometric Functions of Any Angle
1.4 Radians, Arc Length, and Angular Speed
1.5 Circular Functions: Graphs and Properties
CH 3 APPLICATIONS OF TRIGONOMETRY 3.1, 3.2, and selected topics in 3.5
3.1 The Law of Sines
3.2 The Law of Cosines
Omit 3.3, 3.4 & 3.6)
3.5 Vectors and Applications