Elementary Algebra

MATH 0097	Elementary Algebra	4 credits
4 class hours This course provides an introduction to algebraic concepts and techniques. The purpose of this course is to prepare the student for entry into Intermediate Algebra (MATH 0099). The topics covered include performing basic operations with rational and real numbers, solving linear equations, and inequalities, simplifying polynomials, solving applications of linear equations, graphing points and lines in a coordinate plane, writing equations of a line, and solving systems of equations. Entry into MATH 0097 is either by choice or placement. Institutional credit only.