Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 512.9
EAN num: 9780130688347
ISBN number: 0130688347
Label: Prentice Hall College Div
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 576
Printing Date: 1994-02
Publishing house: Prentice Hall College Div
Sale Popularity Level: 3249234
Studio: Prentice Hall College Div
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This is an easy-to-use introductory text designed for a very first course in algebra, offering a clear, concise presentation of the topics with many sample problems to facilitate student understanding. The seventh edition retains the basic subject matter and pedagogy of the previous editions but it differs from them in several significant ways. The very first three chapters have been extensively reorganised to introduce equations and word problems in a spiral approach. Problem solving is developed gradually and integrated with the introduction of standard algebraic topics. The text has also been strengthened by broadening the scope of many topics and by incorporating greater variety and more challenging problems into the exercise sets. New to this edition are sections on the laws of exponents; Nth roots and fractional exponents; and radical equations. In addition, existing material on scientific notation, use of formulas, operations with fractions, and graphing of quadratic equations has been expanded and strengthened. The previous edition of this book was published in 1984.
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If your child is having problems with algebra in high school this is the book for you. (Although the title says for college students it's basic enough for high school algebra.) I had the same problem when I was in high school - Crappy teacher + crappy book = failure. In college I finally had a good teacher who used Drooyan & Wooton. The authors present the material in a very understandable manner with sample problems showing the solution and then give you a set of several exercises. They never throw a curve at you without very first explaining it and then presenting more exercises. All of the odd numbered exercises have answers in the back so you have immediate feedback on whether or not you are doing it correctly. This book got me off to a great start in College Algebra and made up for the problems I had in high school.
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