Publisher's Synopsis
Swanson, Andersen, and Keeley provide students with the power tools they need to be successful in their study of mathematics. The authors actively engage students in their study of precalculus by integrating throughout the text real-world applications with actual data, a variety of projects, and an abundance of reading questions which ask students to write about key concepts. 1. An Introduction to Functions. 2. Families of Functions. 3. New Functions from Old. 4: Polynomial and Rational Functions. 5. Trigonometric Functions. 6. Applications of Trigonometric Functions. 7. Solving Equations and Fitting Functions to Data. 8. Getting Ready for Calculus. 9. Additional Topics.
