Pre-Calculus Workbook For Dummies
Chapter One
Beginning at the Very Beginning:
Pre-Pre-Calculus
In This Chapter
* Brushing up on order of operations
* Solving equalities
* Graphing equalities and inequalities
* Finding distance, midpoint, and slope
Pre-calculus is the stepping stone for Calculus. It's the final hurdle after all those years of
math: Pre-algebra, Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra II. Now all you need is Pre-calculus
to get to that ultimate goal - Calculus. And as you may recall from your Algebra II class, you
were subjected to much of the same material you saw in Algebra and even Pre-algebra (just
a couple steps up in terms of complexity - but really the same stuff). As the stepping stone,
pre-calculus begins with certain concepts that you're expected to solidly understand.
Therefore, we're starting here, at the very beginning, reviewing those concepts. If you feel
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