Preface

To the Instructor

If you are familiar with our current companion volume, Essentials of Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Fifth Edition, you may know that for our 3-hour semester course in precalculus mathematics at Loyola Marymount University we have long favored a short text covering only what we consider to be basic material necessary for the successful completion of a course in calculus; a text that would allow time for instructors to work with their students to focus on strengthening their algebraic, logarithmic, and trigonometric skills.

This longer text, Precalculus with Calculus Previews, Fifth Edition, is a recognition of the needs of those instructors whose course syllabus contains topics not covered in Essentials of Precalculus ...

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