Chapter 4
Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry Review
IN THIS CHAPTER
Winning the fraction battle: Divide and conquer
Boosting your powers and getting to the root of roots
Laying down the laws of logarithms and having fun with factoring
Hanging around the quad solving quadratics
Getting in shape with two- and three-dimensional shapes
Getting it right with special right triangles
Algebra is the language of calculus. You can’t do calculus without knowing algebra any more than you can write Chinese poetry without knowing Chinese. So, if your pre-algebra and algebra are a bit rusty — you know, all those rules for algebraic expressions, equations, fractions, powers, roots, logs, factoring, quadratics, and so on — make sure you review the following algebra basics.
And you’ve got to review your basic geometry as well. Many calculus problems involve two- and three-dimensional shapes (triangles, ...
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