• When you first arrive in class:
– If you have any questions about the homework
please put the question #’s on the board
• If someone has already put your question # up, and
you’d like to see an explanation, please put a check
mark next to the problem
• The idea being that problems that lots of people are
finding difficult will be clearly marked
• We’ll start with ≤ 10 minutes of Q+A
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Math 110:
Pre-Calculus 1
Instructor: Mike Panitz
(mpanitz@cascadia.ctc.edu)
Contact Info
• Sending me your email address before Friday,
5pm, and you will get you 2.5 points of extra
credit.
• Subscribing to the Google Group before Friday,
5pm, will get you 2.5 points of extra credit.
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Calculators on Exams
• You’re allowed/encouraged to use your
graphing calculators on the exams
• ALL MEMORY WILL BE CLEARED!!
– So any programs that you’ve loaded into it will
be removed.
– This will be done immediately before each
exam
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Exam #1
• This will be on Wednesday, April 18th
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• Today’s Topics
– Q+A
– Solving Equations using your Graphing Calculator
– Quadratic Equations:
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Discriminant
Solving By Factoring
Solving By Completing the Square
Solving By the Quad. Formula
– Radical Equations:
• Strategy for Solving
• Equations that are quadratic in form
– Absolute Value Equations
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• Reading review for this class:
– § 1.2 – Using Your Calculator To Solve Equations
– § 1.3 - Quadratic Equations
– § 1.5 - Radical and Absolute Value Equations
• Reading for next class:
– § 2.2 – Functions
• Ignore § 2.2.4 (“Operations On Functions”) for now
– § 2.3 – Graphs of a Function
– § 2.5 - Linear Function & Models
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