Precalculus I

MTH 161-004N

Annandale Campus

Northern Virginia Community College

Dr. Don Goral

Homework for the semester


I do not collect homework, but you must attempt each assigned problem if you hope to pass this course. The homework exercises provide the foundation for quizzes and exams.


Precalculus, Stitz & Zeager, 2013

https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/stitz-zeager/

 1 Relations and Functions 

 1.1 Sets of Real Numbers and the Cartesian Coordinate Plane

   1.1.4 Exercises

   page 14: 1, 3, 5, 11, 17, 23, 31


1.2 Relations

    1.2.2 Exercises

    page 29: 1, 3, 7, 18, 21, 22, 27, 37, 41, 50


1.3 Introduction to Functions

    1.3.1 Exercises

    page 43: 1, 2, 6, 14, 16, 39, 46


1.4 Function Notation

    1.4.2  Exercises

    page 63: 1, 4, 15, 19, 31, 35, 37, 39, 67


1.5 Function Arithmetic

    1.5.1 Exercises

    page 84: 1, 11, 17, 21,23,25, 46, 57


1.6 Graphs of Functions

    1.6.2 Exercises

    page 107: 1, 7, 9, 14, 21, 24, 32, 75


 1.7 Transformations

    1.7.1 Exercises

    page 140: 1,4, 19, 24, 48, 56


2 Linear and Quadratic Functions

   

2.1 Linear Functions

    2.1.1 Exercises

    page 163: 5, 7, 15, 18, 26, 28, 32, 35, 45


2.2 Absolute Value Functions

    2.2.1 Exercises

    page 183: 1, 2, 15, 17, 22, 29


2.3 Quadratic Functions

    2.3.1 Exercises

    page 200:  1, 4, 11, 21, 26


2.4 Inequalities with Absolute Value and Quadratic Functions

    2.4.1 Exercises

    page 220: 1, 8, 17, 34, 36



3 Polynomial Functions

 

3.1 Graphs of Polynomials

    3.1.1 Exercises

    page 246: 3, 7, 13, 21, 27


3.2 The Factor Theorem and the Remainder Theorem

    3.2.1 Exercises

    page 265: 1, 3, 9, 21, 35, 42


3.3 Real Zeros of Polynomials

    3.3.3: Exercises

    page 280: 1, 31, 37, 48


 3.4 Complex Zeros and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

    3.4.1 Exercises

    page 295: 1, 11, 13, 23, 27, 50


4 Rational Functions

 

4.1 Introduction to Rational Functions

    4.1.1 Exercises

    page 314: 1, 3, 12, 19


4.2 Graphs of Rational Functions

    4.2.1 Exercises

    page 333: 5, 14


4.3 Rational Inequalities and Applications

    4.3.2 Exercises

    page 353: 2, 5, 13, 23, 25, 38


5 Further Topics in Functions

   

5.1 Function Composition

    5.1.1 Exercises

    page 369: 1, 9, 13, 17, 22, 31, 39, 62


5.2 Inverse Functions

    5.2.1 Exercises

    page 391: 1, 5, 11, 17, 23


6 Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

 

6.1 Introduction to Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

    6.1.1 Exercises

    page 429: 1, 5, 16, 26, 45, 56, 71, 75


  6.2 Properties of Logarithms

    6.2.1 Exercises

    page 445: 1, 5, 10, 16, 23, 30, 42


 6.3 Exponential Equations and Inequalities

    6.3.1 Exercises

    page 456: 1, 11, 19, 36, 40, 44


 6.4 Logarithmic Equations and Inequalities

    6.4.1 Exercises

    page 466: 3, 9, 22, 26, 33


6.5 Applications of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

    6.5.3 Exercises

    page 482: 1, 14, 23, 27


8 Systems of Equations and Matrices
8.1 Systems of Linear Equations: Gaussian Elimination

    8.1.1 Exercises

    page 562: 5, 10, 11, 16, 28


8.2 Systems of Linear Equations: Augmented Matrices

    8.2.1 Exercises

    page 574: 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 14, 15, 18

 

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