Pre-Calculus Workbook For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Index

A

• AAS (angle-angle-side), 193–194, 202
• absolute value
  • absolute value function parent graph, 43–44, 334
  • absolute value inequalities, 26, 35
  • defined, 10
  • isolating absolute value terms, 10–11, 20–21
  • multiple absolute value terms, 20
• additive identity, 8
• additive inverse property, 8
• angle of depression, 118
• angle of elevation, 118–120
• angle-angle-side (AAS), 193–194, 202
• angle-side-angle (ASA), 193–194, 200, 202
• Archimedean spirals, 220, 222, 226
• arcs, 129–130
  • example question and answer, 130
  • measuring, 129
  • workbook questions, 130
  • workbook solutions, 136
• arithmetic sequences and series, 303–305
  • common difference (d), 303
  • example questions and answers, 304
  • workbook questions, 304–305
  • workbook solutions, 311–312
• ASA (angle-side-angle), 193–194, 200, 202
• associative property of addition, 8–9
• associative property of multiplication, 8
• average rate of change, 322–323, 327

B

• binomial theorem, 301, 308–309
  • example questions and answers, 308
  • workbook questions, 309
  • workbook solutions, 313–314
• binomials
  • binomial expansion, 308
  • binomial polynomials, 76
  • defined, 308
  • FOILing, 212, 342
  • rationalizing expressions with, 33
• box method, 76, 89

C

• calculus, 315–325
  • average rate of change, 322–323, 327
  • continuity, 323–325, 328
  • defined, 315
  • finding limits of functions, 316–322
    • algebraically, 319–320, 326–327
    • analytically, 318–319, 326
    • combined functions, 321–322, 327
    • equal left and right limits, 316
    • graphically, 316–318, 326
• cardioids, 220–222, 227
• Cartesian coordinate system, 12
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