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This text is designed for a variety of students with different mathematical needs. For those students who will take additional mathematics, the text will provide the proper foundation of skills, understanding, and insights necessary for success in further courses. For those students who will not pursue further mathematics, the extensive emphasis on applications and modeling will demonstrate the usefulness and applicability of mathematics in the world today. Many of the applied problems in this text are actually real problems that people have had to solve on the job. With an emphasis on problem solving, this text provides students with an excellent opportunity to sharpen their reasoning and thinking skills. With increased critical thinking skills, students will have the confidence they need to tackle whatever future problems they may encounter inside and outside the classroom.

This text is technology optional. With this approach, teachers will be able to offer either a technology-oriented course or a course that does not make use of technology. For departments requiring both options, this text provides the advantage of flexibility.

• Chapter Opener. Each chapter begins with a discussion of a real-world situation in which the mathematics of the chapter is used. Examples and exercises that relate back to the opener are included within the chapter.

• Applications. Hundreds of exercises based on and involving applications of real-world situations are included in this text. The emphasis of these exercises is on understanding concepts and relationships.

• Regression Problems. Many regression problems have been included in this text, so that students can start with real data, and use a calculator to obtain mathematical models of real problem situations.

• Graphing Calculator Discussions. Optional graphing calculator discussions have been integrated into this text, and are set off by graphing calculator icons so that they can be easily skipped by those not using this technology.

• Highlights. This end-of-chapter feature presents an overview of each section of the chapter and is a useful summary of the basic information that students should master in that chapter.

• Linking Concepts. This feature is located at the end of nearly every exercise set. It is a multi-part exercise or exploration that can be used for individual or group work. The idea of this feature is to use a concept from the current section along with concepts from previous sections, and to ask questions that help students see the links between various concepts.

• For Thought. Each exercise set begins with a set of true or false questions that review the basic concepts in that section, help check student understanding before beginning the exercises, and offer opportunities for writing and/or discussion.

• Graphing Calculator Exercises. Exercises that require a graphing calculator are optional and are marked with an icon.

• Chapter Review Exercises. These exercises are designed to help students review the chapter without referencing individual sections and to prepare students for the Chapter Test.

• Chapter Test. The problems in the Chapter Test are designed to help students measure their readiness for a classroom test. Instructors may use them as a model for their own end-of-chapter tests.

• Tying It All Together. These exercises help students review selected concepts from present and prior chapters. They require students to integrate multiple concepts and skills.

• Now Try Exercises. Following every example, these notes encourage students to "now try" a related problem in the exercise set so that they can immediately and easily test their comprehension as they read through the material.

P. Algebraic Prerequisites.

Plane Trigonometry  (Mathematics)

Mark Dugopolski was born in Menominee, Michigan. After receiving a B.S. from Michigan State University, he taught high school for four years, and then went on to receive an M.S. in mathematics from Northern Illinois University. He also received a Ph.D. in the area of topology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and ever since, Mark has been teaching at Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond, LA. He has been writing textbooks for about fifteen years. He is married and has two daughters, and enjoys playing tennis, jogging, and riding his bicycle in his spare time. Despite the presence of sailboats both on and in his precalculus textbooks, Mark does not sail-- it's his passion for showing students how mathematics is used in the real world that led him to the world of sailing.

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