Math 1090.004 College Algebra
Homework 01
Due: 16 January 2013
Name
Student ID Number:
Instructions:
• Attach this cover sheet to the front of your homework assignment.
• Follow the Homework Guidelines listed on the course webpage.
• Solve the Part A problems on your own paper and attach.
• Solve the Part B problems listed in this handout and attach.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS TABLE!!!
(It is for grading purposes.)
Quantity of Completed Homework Problems:
Grade: Homework
Quiz
1
out of 100
Reading Assignment:
• Chapter 1.1 - Text pages 1-6
• Chapter 1.2 - Text pages 12 - 16
Part A:
• Review Assignment - Text pages: xi - xiii [Worth 33 problems]
• Chapter 1.1 - Text pages: 7 - 11
Problems: 1-4, 15-27 odds, 44-52 evens, 54-60 all, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66,
68, 70, 72, 80-82, 94
• Chapter 1.2 - Text pages: 17 - 20
Problems: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19-21, 46 - 50, 51, 55, 56, 59, 60, 63
Part B:
1. Simplify: (−5)(−3)−(−2)(4)
−9+2
2. Simplify:
|3−|4−11||
−|52 −32 |
2
3. Simmplify: (−32x5 )−3
−1 −15
4. Simplify: ( 24x−2 x5yy−5 )−2
5. Simplify:
p
32x5 y 2
6. Rationalize the Denominator:
√5
2−x
3
7. Rationalize the Denominator:
√5
2x
8. Solve for x and then check your work: 6x + 9 = 2x + 21
9. Solve for x and then check your work:
5x
2
−4=
2x−7
6
10. Nine more than six times a number is twenty-one more than two times
a number. What is the number?
4
11. Solve for x and graph on a number line: 3x + 6 <= 4(x + 1) + 3
12. Acme Car Rental Agency charges $ 4 a day plus $ 0.15 whereas Interstate Rental charges $ 20 a day and $ 0.05 a mile. How many miles
must be driven per day to make the daily cost of Acme a better deal
than Interstate Rental?
5