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This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers. The Putting Your Skills to Work and new chapter-end feature, Math in the Media, present readers with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data, and problem solve using applied situations encountered in daily life. Earlier coverage of the Order of Arithmetic Operations--now section 1.5 so that operations is now covered together before Introduction to Algebra. The discussion of solving linear equations in Chapter 2 now includes coverage of equations with no solution and equations with infinitely many solutions. Section 4.3 now offers a more thorough introduction to polynomials, with the addition of new terminology at the beginning of the section and a new lesson on evaluating polynomials at the end. Revised Ch. 7 on Graphing and Functions includes new coverage of the rectangular coordinate system and slope. The coverage of the rectangular coordinate system in Chapter 7 has been improved for greater clarity.

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• How Am I Doing? Guide to Math Success (inside front cover)
• To the Student
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Diagnostic Pretest
• Chapter 0 A Brief Review of Arithmetic Skills
• 0.1 Simplifying Fractions
• 0.2 Adding and Subtracting Fractions
• 0.3 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
• 0.4 Using Decimals
• How Am I Doing?
• Sections 0.1-0.4
• 0.5 Using Percent
• 0.6 Rounding and Estimating
• 0.7 Using the Mathematics Blueprint for Problem Solving
• Chapter 0 Organizer
• Chapter 0 Review Problems
• How Am I Doing?
• Chapter 0 Test
• Chapter 1 Real Numbers and Variables
• 1.1 Adding Real Numbers
• 1.2 Subtracting Real Numbers
• 1.3 Multiplying and Dividing Real Numbers
• 1.4 Exponents
• 1.5 The Order of Operations
• How Am I Doing?
• Sections 1.1-1.5
• 1.6 Using the Distributive Property to Simplify Algebraic Expressions
• 1.7 Combining Like Terms
• 1.8 Using Substitution to Evaluate Algebraic Expressions and Formulas
• 1.9 Grouping Symbols
• Chapter 1 Organizer
• Chapter 1 Review Problems
• How Am I Doing?
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 Equations and Inequalities
• 2.1 The Addition Principle of Equality
• 2.2 The Multiplication Principle of Equality
• 2.3 Using the Addition and Multiplication Principles Together
• 2.4 Solving Equations with Fractions
• How Am I Doing?
• Sections 2.1-2.4
• 2.5 Formulas
• 2.6 Writing and Graphing Inequalities
• 2.7 Solving Inequalities
• Chapter 2 Organizer
• Chapter 2 Review Problems
• How Am I Doing?
• Chapter 2 Test
• Cumulative Test for Chapters 0-2
• Chapter 3 Solving Applied Problems
• 3.1 Translating English Phrases into Algebraic Expressions
• 3.2 Using Equations to Solve Word Problems
• 3.3 Solving Word Problems: Comparisons
• How Am I Doing?
• Sections 3.1-3.3
• 3.4 Solving Word Problems: The Value of Money and Percents
• 3.5 Solving Word Problems Using Geometric Formulas
• 3.6 Using Inequalities to Solve Word Problems
• Chapter 3 Organizer
• Chapter 3 Review Problems
• How Am I Doing?
• Chapter 3 Test
• Cumulative Test for Chapters 0-3
• Chapter 4 Exponents and Polynomials
• 4.1 The Rules of Exponents
• 4.2 Negative Exponents and Scientific Notation
• 4.3 Fundamental Polynomial Operations
• How Am I Doing?
• Sections 4.1-4.3
• 4.4 Multiplying Polynomials
• 4.5 Multiplication: Special Cases
• 4.6 Dividing Polynomials
• Chapter 4 Organizer
• Chapter 4 Review Problems
• How Am I Doing?
• Chapter 4 Test
• Cumulative Test for Chapters 0-4
• Chapter 5 Factoring
• 5.1 Removing a Common Factor
• 5.2 Factoring by Grouping
• 5.3 Factoring Trinomials of the Form x 2 + bx + c
• 5.4 Factoring Trinomials of the Form ax 2 + bx + c How Am I Doing?
• Sections 5.1-5.4
• 5.5 Special Cases of Factoring
• 5.6 A Brief Review of Factoring
• 5.7 Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring