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Feb 05, 2025
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MA 125A - College Algebra I4 lecture hours 1 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course is the same as MA 125. The ‘A’ designation after the course number indicates this is a special section taught with extra math lab hours built in as a requirement for successful completion if the course. (prereq: consent of instructor)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Perform the four fundamental operations with signed numbers and polynomials
- Remove and insert symbols of grouping
- Perform basic operations with exponents and radicals
- Solve systems of two equations in two unknowns
- Find special products
- Factor polynomials
- Reduce a given fraction to lowest terms
- Perform the four fundamental operations with fractions
- Simplify complex fractions
- Solve fractional equations
- Solve quadratic equations
- Solve word problems leading to algebraic equations
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Fundamental operations
- Equations and applications
- Systems of equations
- Special products and factoring
- Operations with algebraic fractions
- Quadratic equations
Coordinator
Dr. Anthony van Groningen
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