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Intermediate Algebra, 5/E
John Jr Tobey, North Shore Community College
Jeffrey Slater, North Shore Community College

ISBN-10: 0131490788
ISBN-13: 9780131490789

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 800 pp
Published: 02/03/2005

This item has been replaced by Intermediate Algebra, 6/E.

A worktext format for basic college math or arithmetic courses including lecture-based, self-paced, and modular classes.

John Tobey and Jeff Slater are experienced developmental math authors and active classroom teachers. The Tobey approach focuses on building skills one at a time by breaking math down into manageable pieces. This building block organization is a practical approach to basic math skill development that makes it easier for students to understand each topic, gaining confidence as they move through each section. Knowing students crave feedback, Tobey has enhanced the new edition with a "How am I Doing?" guide to math success. The combination of continual reinforcement of basic skill development, ongoing feedback and a fine balance of exercises makes the fifth edition of Tobey/Slater Intermediate Algebra even more practical and accessible.

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New! Ongoing feedback: Now when a student thinks, "I wonder how I'm doing?" the can do more than just guess. A new "How Am I Doing" emphasis gives students the feedback they crave.

"How Am I Doing?" navigation guide to math success shows students how to more effectively use the text to succeed in this math course.

"How Am I Doing ?" mid-chapter review exercise set lets students pause at a critical juncture to assess whether they are 'getting it" so far.

"How Am I Doing ?" Chapter Test helps students determine whether they've mastered the important concepts in the chapter.

Where do your students get help the night before the test?

New Chapter Test Prep Video: The Chapter Test Prep Video provides step-by-step solutions to every problem in the textbook Chapter Test, free inside the back cover. The night before the exam is an important "teachable moment" and the CTPV helps students better prepare for the exam at a point when they most need it.

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New MyMathlab: Powered by CourseCompass and MathXL, MyMathLab is a series of text-specific online courses that accompany select Prentice Hall Mathematics and Statistics textbooks. MyMathLab provides powerful homework and assessment functionality in addition to a rich and flexible set of course materials to accompany the text. Course management tools make it easy to customize online courses. MyMathLab provides everything necessary to deliver all or a portion of math courses online.

Chapter Organizers neatly summarize the chapter topics, procedures and corresponding examples all in one place to simplify chapter review.

Develop Your Study Skills boxes throughout remind and encourage students to hone these all-important study skills.

A Mathematics Blueprint for Problem Solving provides a consistent and interactive outline that helps students organize their approach to problem solving. The Blueprint helps students know where to begin, and how to understand the process, plan subsequent steps, and successfully solve applications.

Problem Solving is thorough, integrated throughout and easy to follow with key steps highlighted with the pedagogical use of color.

Putting Your Skills to Work applications provide opportunities to solve real world situations using newly mastered math skills. Students utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data and solve using situations encountered in daily life.

Math in the Media exercises offer students yet another opportunity to see how the math they are learning applies to the world around them.

Exercises are paired and graded (easy to more difficult) and each exercise set includes Verbal and Writing Skills and Mixed Practice exercises.

A built-in solutions manual offers worked out solutions to the practice problems and reinforces the problem solving process.

How does your current book provide students with repetition, reinforcement, and feedback?

New! Ongoing feedback: Now when a student thinks, "I wonder how I'm doing?" the can do more than just guess. A new "How Am I Doing" emphasis gives students the feedback they crave.

"How Am I Doing?" navigation guide to math success shows students how to more effectively use the text to succeed in this math course.

"How Am I Doing ?" mid-chapter review exercise set lets students pause at a critical juncture to assess whether they are 'getting it" so far.

"How Am I Doing ?" Chapter Test helps students determine whether they've mastered the important concepts in the chapter.

Where do your students get help the night before the test?

Do your students work enough problems?

Do you assign homework? Do you grade it?

How do your students get feedback?

Better Example, Practice Problem format. Although virtually all worktexts feature an example and corresponding practice problem, Tobey's format has been redesigned to provide better pairing of the practice problem and example into a cohesive "see it solved here, now try it yourself" pattern. Tobey knows that his successful students gain confidence as they move through each section by working the corresponding practice problems.

New and updated exercises and applications contain 30% contributed by students.

New Appendix A: Consumer Finance Applications Appendix covers three practical, common financial decisions--Balancing a Checkbook, Purchasing a Home, and Determining the Best Deal when Purchasing a Vehicle and includes Examples, Practice Problems and Exercises for each.

No major changes to the fifth edition organization/table of contents.

How Am I Doing? Guide to Math Success (inside front cover)

To the Student

Preface

Acknowledgments

Diagnostic Pretest

Chapter 1 Basic Concepts

1.1 The Real Number System

1.2 Operations with Real Numbers

1.3 Powers, Square Roots, and the Order of Operations

How Am I Doing? Sections 1.1—1.3

1.4 Integer Exponents and Scientific Notation

1.5 Operations with Variables and Grouping Symbols

1.6 Evaluating Variable Expressions and Formulas

Chapter 1 Organizer

Chapter 1 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 1 Test

Chapter 2 Linear Equations and Inequalities

2.1 First-Degree Equations with One Unknown

2.2 Literal Equations and Formulas

2.3 Absolute Value Equations

2.4 Using Equations to Solve Word Problems

How Am I Doing? Sections 2.1—2.4

2.5 Solving More-Involved Word Problems

2.6 Linear Inequalities

2.7 Compound Inequalities

2.8 Absolute Value Inequalities

Chapter 2 Organizer

Chapter 2 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 2 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—2

Chapter 3 Equations and Inequalities in Two Variables and Functions

3.1 Graphing Linear Equations with Two Unknowns

3.2 Slope of a Line

3.3 Graphs and the Equations of a Line

How Am I Doing? Sections 3.1—3.3

3.4 Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

3.5 Concept of a Function

3.6 Graphing Functions from Equations and Tables of Data

Chapter 3 Organizer

Chapter 3 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 3 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—3

Chapter 4 Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities

4.1 Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables

4.2 Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables

How Am I Doing? Sections 4.1—4.2

4.3 Applications of Systems of Linear Equations

4.4 Systems of Linear Inequalities

Chapter 4 Organizer

Chapter 4 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 4 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—4

Chapter 5 Polynomials

5.1 Introduction to Polynomials and Polynomial Functions: Adding, Subtracting, and

Multiplying

5.2 Dividing Polynomials

5.3 Synthetic Division

5.4 Removing Common Factors; Factoring by Grouping

5.5 Factoring Trinomials

How Am I Doing? Sections 5.1—5.5

5.6 Special Cases of Factoring

5.7 Factoring a Polynomial Completely

5.8 Solving Equations and Applications Using Polynomials

Chapter 5 Organizer

Chapter 5 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 5 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—5

Chapter 6 Rational Expressions and Equations

6.1 Rational Expressions and Functions: Simplifying, Multiplying, and Dividing

6.2 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions

6.3 Complex Rational Expressions

How Am I Doing? Sections 6.1—6.3

6.4 Rational Equations

6.5 Applications: Formulas and Advanced Ratio Exercises

Chapter 6 Organizer

Chapter 6 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 6 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—6

Chapter 7 Rational Exponents and Radicals

7.1 Rational Exponents

7.2 Radical Expressions and Functions

7.3 Simplifying, Adding, and Subtracting Radicals

7.4 Multiplying and Dividing Radicals

How Am I Doing? Sections 7.1—7.4

7.5 Radical Equations

7.6 Complex Numbers

7.7 Variation

Chapter 7 Organizer

Chapter 7 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 7 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—7

Chapter 8 Quadratic Equations and Inequalities

8.1 Quadratic Equations

8.2 The Quadratic Formula and Solutions to Quadratic Equations

8.3 Equations That Can Be Transformed into Quadratic Form

How Am I Doing? Sections 8.1—8.3

8.4 Formulas and Applications

8.5 Quadratic Functions

8.6 Quadratic Inequalities in One Variable

Chapter 8 Organizer

Chapter 8 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 8 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—8

Chapter 9 The Conic Sections

9.1 The Distance Formula and the Circle

9.2 The Parabola

9.3 The Ellipse

How Am I Doing? Sections 9.1—9.3

9.4 The Hyperbola

9.5 Nonlinear Systems of Equations

Chapter 9 Organizer

Chapter 9 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 9 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—9

Chapter 10 Additional Properties of Functions

10.1 Function Notation

10.2 General Graphing Procedures for Functions

How Am I Doing? Sections 10.1—10.2

10.3 Algebraic Operations on Functions

10.4 Inverse of a Function

Chapter 10 Organizer

Chapter 10 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 10 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—10

Chapter 11 Logarithmic and Exponential Functions

11.1 The Exponential Function

11.2 The Logarithmic Function

11.3 Properties of Logarithms

How Am I Doing? Sections 11.1—11.3

11.4 Common Logarithms, Natural Logarithms, and Change of Base of Logarithms

11.5 Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

Chapter 11 Organizer

Chapter 11 Review Problems

How Am I Doing? Chapter 11 Test

Cumulative Test for Chapters 1—11

Practice Final Examination

Glossary

Appendix A: Tables

Table A-1: Table of Square Roots

Table A-2: Table of Exponential Values

Appendix B: Determinants and Cramer’s Rule

Appendix C: Solving Systems of Linear Equations Using Matrices

Solutions to Practice Problems

Answers to Selected Exercises

Applications Index

Index

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