MAT 082 * Elementary Algebra (3)
Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement test score or MAT 071.
An introduction to the basic algebra normally included in a first-year high school algebra course. Includes fundamental axioms and operations applied to rational numbers, laws of integral exponents, solutions of equations, polynomials and factoring, systems of equations, graphing equations and inequalities, rational expressions, radicals, quadratic equations and applications.
3 hours lecture.