MAT-064 - Introduction of Transcendental Functions

This is a pre-college level lecture course in elementary algebra and introduction to transcendental functions. Topics include operations with real and fractional exponents, domain and range, right triangle trigonometry. Topics also include inverse and composition of functions, exponential and logarithmic functions.

This is a developmental course. Credit for this course will not be counted toward fulfilling graduation requirements at STCC.

Prerequisite(s)

MAT-063 (minimum grade C-) or placement level MAT-064

Problems

  1. Write the following as a logarithm:  2x = 16
  2. If f(x) = 4x - 1 find the inverse
  3. Find the sin W
    triangel with 26 hypotenuse 24 w and 10 L

Answers/Solutions

  1. log216 = x
  2. f-1(x) = x + 1/4
  3. 5/13