Math 124 - Algebra With Applications
Spring 2019

Syllabus

Announcements:
 - The final exam will be given on Monday, April 29 from 10:00 to 11:50 in the normal lecture room.  You may wish to review this list of exam material and this problem list.

Homework Assignments:

 1.
Assignment #1, due Friday, January 11
    Ungraded Problems to do:

    Graded Assignment To Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to the set of problems numbered 21-28 in the ungraded problems, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to the set of problems numbered 55-62 in the ungraded problems, and give the solution to your problem.

2. Assignment #2, due Friday, January 18
    Ungraded Problems To Do:

    Graded Assignment To Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.2 #17-22 or #23-36, and give the solution to your problem. Or for a one point bonus, write a word problem similar to #39 or #40 in Section 1.2, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.3, from any of the listed problem sets, and give the solution to your problem.

3. Assignment #3, due Friday, January 25
    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment To Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.4, from either #15-28 or #31-46, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.5, from either #33-52 or #61-75, and give the solution to your problem.


4. Assignment #4, due Friday, February 1

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.6 from #1-18, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.6 from #33-38, and give the solution to your problem.  Or for a one point bonus, write a word problem that requires an equation to be solved, like the word problems in 39-78.

5. Assignment #5, due Friday, February 8

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 2.4 from #3-26, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 2.4 from #37-46, and give the solution to your problem.

6. Assignment #6, due Friday, February 15

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 2.1 from either #17-20 or #27-40, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 2.2 from #41-62, and give the solution to your problem.

7. Assignment #7, due Friday, March 1

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 1.7 from either #1-20 or #25-38, and give the solution to your problem. Or for a one point bonus, write a word problem similar to those in #47-52.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 2.5 from any of the listed problem sets, and give the solution to your problem.

8. Assignment #8, due Friday, March 8

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 3.1 from #9-42, and give the solution to your problem.  Or for a one point bonus, write a word problem similar to those in #49-58.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 3.2 from either #1-15 or #23-32, and sketch the graph of your function.

9. Assignment #9, due Friday, March 22

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 3.4 from #17-28, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 3.5 from #15-22.

10. Assignment #10, due Friday, April 5

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 4.1 from #7-12 or #27-30, and give the solution to your problem.  Or for a one point bonus, write a problem similar to those in Section 4.2 from #1-4 or #13-15, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 4.3 from #5-8 or #13-24, and give the solution to your problem.

11. Assignment #11, due Friday, April 12

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 4.4 from #1-16, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Write a problem similar to those in Section 4.4 from #23-40, and give the solution to your problem.

12. Assignment #12, due Tuesday, April 23

    Ungraded Problems to Do:

    Graded Assignment to Turn In:

  1. Write a problem similar to those in Section 6.1 from #7-16, and give the solution to your problem.
  2. Either write a problem similar to those in Section 6.2 from #47-52, or write a word problem similar to those in Section 6.1 from #19-30, and give the solution to your problem.



Old Announcements:

- Quiz 1 will be given on Friday, January 18, and will consist of a couple of the ungraded problems in Assignment #2.
- Exam 1 will be given on Wednesday, January 30.  It will cover material in Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5.
- Quiz 3 will be given on Friday, February 8 and will consist of a couple of the ungraded problems from Assignment #5.
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Quiz 4 will be given on Friday, February 15 and will consist of a couple of the ungraded problems from Assignment #6.

 - Exam 2 will be given on Friday, February 22.  It will cover the material in sections 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.
Answers to the practice problems can be found here: Exam 2 Practice Answers
 - For practice on Section 2.3, you may wish to review:

- Quiz 5 will be given on Friday, March 1 and will consist of a couple ungraded problems from Assignment 7.
- Quiz 6 will be given on Friday, March 8 and will consist of a couple ungraded problems from Assignment 8.
- Quiz 7 will be given on Friday, March 22 and will consist of a couple ungraded problems from Assignment 9.
- Exam 3 will be given on Wednesday, March 27.  It will cover material from sections 1.7, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5.  For practice on problems from 3.3, you may wish to attempt the problems in the textbook, particularly those on page 142, #17-20 and #33-52.
 - Exam 4 will be given on Wednesday, April 17 and will cover material from sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.  You may find these answers to the practice problems useful.