Arithmetic and Algebra
Applied Calculus begins with a review of important algebra concepts. It is tempting to skip topics where you may feel 80% confident, but students who have learned calculus will often tell you that the hardest part of calculus wasn’t the calculus ideas but the algebra required to express them.
Rules of Exponents
Exponents express repeated multiplication. For positive whole numbers this is straightforward: \(3^4 = 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 3\). Here are the rules to cover the other cases:
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