Quick Algebra Review: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Peter H. Selby, Steve Slavin

Overview

The fastest, easiest way to brush up on your algebra! Quick AlgebraReview Need to hone your algebra skills? This bestselling reviewcourse in intermediate algebra gives you all the concepts,procedures, and problem-solving methods you need to succeed.
* Each chapter begins with an easy-to-use chart that zeroes in onyour problem areas. Now you can avoid wasting hours rehashingfamiliar concepts.
* Every key algebraic concept is covered thoroughly--includingpositive and negative numbers, fractions, rational numbers,factoring, linear equations, quadratic equations, and wordproblems.
* Hundreds of questions, answers, review problems, and quizzes helpyou to test your progress every step of the way.
Now updated and revised to be even more relevant and accessiblethan ever, Quick Algebra Review is packed with practical examplesdrawn from real-life situations. Cover Design: Donald Munson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471578437
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/22/1993
Series:	Wiley Self-Teaching Guides Series , #165
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.03(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

PETER H. SELBY is the author of two other Wiley Self-TeachingGuides: Practical Algebra and Geometry and Trigonometry forCalculus, both revised by STEVE SLAVIN, PhD, who is AssociateProfessor of Economics at Union County College, Cranford, NewJersey. Dr. Slavin is also the author of All the Math You'll EverNeed: A Self-Teaching Guide and Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide,both available from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Table of Contents

Some Basic Concepts.

The Number System.

Monomials and Polynomials.

Special Products and Factoring.

Fractions.

Exponents, Roots, and Radicals.

Linear and Fractional Equations and Formulas.

Functions and Graphs.

Quadratic Equations.

Inequalities.

Ratio, Proportion, and Variation.

Solving Everyday Problems.

Appendices.

Index.