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May 31, 2024
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Preliminary 2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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MAT 100 - Technical Mathematics
Description: Review of arithmetic skills, proportions, percentages, exponents, algebraic equations of the first degree, basic geometry, and literal equations with applications designed for the student's own field of study.
Prerequisites: MAT 082 or a satisfactory score on the mathematics skills assessment.
General Education Competency: Quantitative Literacy
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers
- Ratio and Proportion
- Percents
- Rules of exponents
- Fractional exponents and radicals
- First degree equations
- Literal equations
- Geometry
- Measurement including the metric system
- Right Triangle Trigonometry
- Logarithms
Learning Outcomes:
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide signed rational numbers. (1)
- Apply whole number exponent laws to simplify expressions. (4)
- Convert rational exponents to radical form and radicals to fractional exponents. (5)
- Solve problems involving ratios and proportions. (2, 6)
- Solve problems involving percentages. (3, 6)
- Solve linear equations in one or more variables. (6, 7)
- Solve formulae for one variable in terms of other variables. (6, 7)
- Solve problems involving geometric shapes and perimeter, area and volume of those shapes. (8, 6)
- Use measurement systems including the metric system. (9, 2)
- Solve right triangles using trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean theorem. (10)
- Evaluate a logarithm function using technology. (11)
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