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Although A Graphical Approach to College Algebra has evolved significantly from earlier editions, it retains the strengths of those editions and provides new and relevant opportunities for students and instructors alike. We realize that today’s classroom experience is evolving and that technology-based teaching and learning aids have become essential to address the ever-changing needs of instructors and students. As a result, we’ve worked to provide support for all classroom types—traditional, hybrid, and online. In the sixth edition, text and online materials are more tightly integrated than ever before. This enhances flexibility and ease of use for instructors and increases success for students. See pages xviii–xix for descriptions of these materials.
This text incorporates an open design, helpful features, careful explanations of topics, and a comprehensive package of supplements and study aids. We continue to offer an Annotated Instructor’s Edition, in which answers to both even- and oddnumbered exercises are provided either beside the exercises (if space permits) or in the back of the text for the instructor.
A Graphical Approach to College Algebra was one of the first texts to reorganize the typical college algebra table of contents to maximize the use of graphs to support solutions of equations and inequalities. It maintains its unique table of contents and functions-based approach (as outlined in the Foreword and in front of the text) and includes additional components to build skills, address critical thinking, solve applications, and apply technology to support traditional analytic solutions.
Contents
Linear Functions, Equations, and Inequalities
Analysis of Graphs of Functions
Polynomial Functions
Rational, Power, and Root Functions
Inverse, Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions
Systems and Matrices
Analytic Geometry and Nonlinear Systems
Fur ther Topics in Algebra
Reference: Basic Algebraic Concepts